20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 21 (26) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16 (UMH 799)
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, as always, I recommend the Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week. It can be found here.
Showing posts with label Revised Common Lectionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revised Common Lectionary. Show all posts
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Music for Sunday, September 21, 2008
19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Proper 20 (25) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 (or Psalm 78) (UMH 828, UMH 799)
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, as always, I recommend the Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week. It can be found here.
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 (or Psalm 78) (UMH 828, UMH 799)
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, as always, I recommend the Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week. It can be found here.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Music for Sunday, September 14, 2008
18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 19 (24) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 14:19-31
Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21 (UMH 135)
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-35
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, as always, I recommend the Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week. It can be found here.
Proper 19 (24) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 14:19-31
Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21 (UMH 135)
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-35
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, as always, I recommend the Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week. It can be found here.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Music for Sunday, September 7, 2008
17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 18 (23) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 12:1-14
Psalm 149 or Psalm 148 ( for UMs, that's UMH861 in the Psalter)
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Proper 18 (23) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 12:1-14
Psalm 149 or Psalm 148 ( for UMs, that's UMH861 in the Psalter)
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Music for Sunday, August 31, 2008
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 17 (22) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c (for UMs, that's UMH 850 in the Psalter)
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Proper 17 (22) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c (for UMs, that's UMH 850 in the Psalter)
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Music for Sunday, August 24, 2008
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 16 (21) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 1:8 - 2:10
Psalm 124 (for UMs, that's UMH 846 in the Psalter)
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 16:13-20
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Proper 16 (21) - Ordinary Time
Exodus 1:8 - 2:10
Psalm 124 (for UMs, that's UMH 846 in the Psalter)
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 16:13-20
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your other instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Music for Sunday, August 17, 2008
14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Proper 15 (20) - Ordinary Time
Genesis 45:1-15
Psalm 133 (for UMs, that's UMH 850 in the Psalter)
Romans 11:102a, 29-32
Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
Proper 15 (20) - Ordinary Time
Genesis 45:1-15
Psalm 133 (for UMs, that's UMH 850 in the Psalter)
Romans 11:102a, 29-32
Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28
What will your congregations and choirs be singing? What will you or your instrumentalist(s) be playing?
Please share your thoughts, plans, pleas for help, bright ideas, and anything else that might encourage us all to excellence in making music to the Most High!
For a display of the Scripture texts, the most excellent Vanderbilt RCL resource for this week can be found here.
New Focus for The Psaltery
For a long time now, the reason this blog is called The Psaltery hasn't been much in evidence. Oh, the references to getting handbells serviced and being proud of various choirs are a part of my work as a music minister, to be sure. I don't intend to stop posting blurbs of that nature. However, both the discipline of weekly worship planning and the practice of the art of sacred music have been discussed very little here.
That's about to change.
I'm "back in harness" after two weekends away and now two Sunday mornings' worth of worship services. My adult choir -- our church's regular loft choir -- will resume rehearsals on Wednesday. And true to form, I'm L-A-T-E in getting 6-8 weeks' worth of music planned for us to rehearse!
My proposal: To offer to my fellow worship planners (clergy and musicians alike) a "think tank" for planning worship music. This might evolve, if enough people get involved, to include other worship arts and perhaps acts of worship such as litanies and responsive readings. Think of the RevGalBlogPals' "Lectionary Leanings" and "11th Hour Preacher Party" features, but with an intentional focus on music.
Right now, I will be using the United Methodist version of the Revised Common Lectionary as my starting point. I will create a different entry for each week. The title of each of these entries will be a Sunday of the liturgical year, but identified by actual calendar date (such as this coming Sunday, August 10). I will post the UM Scripture references (though not the texts themselves, as I wish to honor copyright law for my preferred translations) and invite comment on what hymn, anthem, solo, and other musical resources I and others plan to use for the week. If you're in a different tradition that uses other texts for these days, I hope you'll participate anyway. If I can manage to keep up with an index feature, this could, in time, turn into a very helpful resource.
Want to play? (Sorry; I couldn't resist that worn-out pun!) Please jump right in and let's spark some creativity in one another!
That's about to change.
I'm "back in harness" after two weekends away and now two Sunday mornings' worth of worship services. My adult choir -- our church's regular loft choir -- will resume rehearsals on Wednesday. And true to form, I'm L-A-T-E in getting 6-8 weeks' worth of music planned for us to rehearse!
My proposal: To offer to my fellow worship planners (clergy and musicians alike) a "think tank" for planning worship music. This might evolve, if enough people get involved, to include other worship arts and perhaps acts of worship such as litanies and responsive readings. Think of the RevGalBlogPals' "Lectionary Leanings" and "11th Hour Preacher Party" features, but with an intentional focus on music.
Right now, I will be using the United Methodist version of the Revised Common Lectionary as my starting point. I will create a different entry for each week. The title of each of these entries will be a Sunday of the liturgical year, but identified by actual calendar date (such as this coming Sunday, August 10). I will post the UM Scripture references (though not the texts themselves, as I wish to honor copyright law for my preferred translations) and invite comment on what hymn, anthem, solo, and other musical resources I and others plan to use for the week. If you're in a different tradition that uses other texts for these days, I hope you'll participate anyway. If I can manage to keep up with an index feature, this could, in time, turn into a very helpful resource.
Want to play? (Sorry; I couldn't resist that worn-out pun!) Please jump right in and let's spark some creativity in one another!
Saturday, December 01, 2007
First Sunday in Advent
My format for this Advent season will be to list the readings for each Sunday, along with a hymn for the day, then refer to the previous Sunday's readings with meditations throughout the week. This was a blessing to me last year and I trust it will be again. If you find blessing from it, my joy will increase.
For the full texts, visit the Vanderbilt Divinity Library's Lectionary page for this Sunday's readings here.
Old Testament: Isaiah 2:1-5
Psalm: Psalm 122:1-9
Epistle: Romans 13:11-14
New Testament: Matthew 24:36-44
Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying
Text: Philipp Nicolai, 1599; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1858
Commonly sung to WACHET AUF, Nicolai, 1599; harm. by J. S. Bach, 1731.
For more information and/or to listen to the tune, visit the Cyberhymnal.
For the full texts, visit the Vanderbilt Divinity Library's Lectionary page for this Sunday's readings here.
Old Testament: Isaiah 2:1-5
Psalm: Psalm 122:1-9
Epistle: Romans 13:11-14
New Testament: Matthew 24:36-44
Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying
Text: Philipp Nicolai, 1599; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1858
Commonly sung to WACHET AUF, Nicolai, 1599; harm. by J. S. Bach, 1731.
For more information and/or to listen to the tune, visit the Cyberhymnal.
Wake, awake, for night is flying;
The watchmen on the heights are crying:
Awake, Jerusalem, at last!
Midnight hears the welcome voices
And at the thrilling cry rejoices;
Come forth, ye virgins, night is past;
The Bridegroom comes, awake;
Your lamps with gladness take;
Alleluia! And for His marriage feast prepare
For ye must go and meet Him there.
Zion hears the watchmen singing,
And all her heart with joy is springing;
She wakes, she rises from her gloom;
For her Lord comes down all glorious,
The strong in grace, in truth victorious.
Her Star is risen, her Light is come.
Ah come, Thou blessèd One, God’s own belovèd Son:
Alleluia! We follow till the halls we see
Where Thou hast bid us sup with Thee.
Now let all the heavens adore Thee,
And saints and angels sing before Thee,
With harp and cymbal’s clearest tone;
Of one pearl each shining portal,
Where we are with the choir immortal
Of angels round Thy dazzling throne;
Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath yet attained to hear
What there is ours, but we rejoice and sing to Thee
Our hymn of joy eternally.
Monday, January 01, 2007
2007 Resolutions
I've created a mess! I started with two good goals in one of my New Year's resolutions: keep up with each week's Lectionary texts, and read through the NRSV in its entirety this year. But trying to make these two good goals work together has resulted in utter chaos!
The problem is that I haven't yet found a chart of non-Lectionary Scripture passages. I'm quickly discovering that MAKING one isn't going very quickly! I knew we had a "hole-y" Lectionary, but sheesh!!
I'll post what I eventually come up with, but I think maybe I'm going to need to do a low-tech checklist from one of those Genesis-Revelation charts in the meantime.
(I do wonder if I'm the only anal-retentive person in the blogosphere who is even concerned about making my Lectionary and full-Bible systematic readings harmonize.)
The problem is that I haven't yet found a chart of non-Lectionary Scripture passages. I'm quickly discovering that MAKING one isn't going very quickly! I knew we had a "hole-y" Lectionary, but sheesh!!
I'll post what I eventually come up with, but I think maybe I'm going to need to do a low-tech checklist from one of those Genesis-Revelation charts in the meantime.
(I do wonder if I'm the only anal-retentive person in the blogosphere who is even concerned about making my Lectionary and full-Bible systematic readings harmonize.)
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