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A weekly podcast from St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, of readings, music and sermons.
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Sacred Time podcast 20 MAY 2012 | PODCAST 20 MAY 2012 Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) Let Us Worship Christ, Yolanda Adams; Lori Dow, vocalist4) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon7) Sing Unto the Lord A New Song, Carlyle Sharpe; Scholars8) Prayers9) Veneration tag10) Closing11) Ascension, Edward A, Broms; Ed Broms, organ | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey | Sacred Time Podcast 6 May 2012 Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist1) Come My Way, R.V. Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano 20082) Opening3) Simple Song, Leonard Bernstein; Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano 20104) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon, Bonsey7) Love Bade Me Welcome, R. V. Williams; Katherine Growdon, Mezzo-Soprano 20098) Prayers9) Veneration tag10) Closing11) Laudamus Te, W. A. Mozart; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano 2006 | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | SACRED TIME PODCAST 29 APR 2012 Edward A. Broms Music Director and Organist1) The Lord Is My Shepherd, Michael Shepherd; Scholars 20092) Opening3) Order My Steps, Glenn Burleigh; Gospel Choir 20104) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon7) Total Praise, Richard Smallwood, Gospel Choir 20098) Prayers9) Veneration tag10) Closing11) God So Loved the World tag | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Tina Rathbone | PODCAST 22 APR 2012 Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist1) Steal Away tag2) Opening Excerpt from Meditations of a Moveable Chair by Andre DubusA sacrament is physical, and within it is God's love; as a sandwich is physical, and nutritious, and pleasurable, and within it is love, if someone makes it for you and gives it to you with love; even harried or tired or impatient love, but with love’s direction and concern, love’s again and again wavering and distorted focus on goodness; then God’s love too is in the sandwich. A sacrament is an outword sign of God’s love, they taught me when I was a both, and in the Catolic church there are seveb. But, no, I say, for the church is catholic, the world is catholic, and there are seven times seventy sacraments, to infinity. Today I sit at my desk in June in Massachusetts; a breeze from the southeast comes through the window behind me, touched me, and goes through the open glass door in front of me. The sky is blue, and cumulus clouds are motionless above green trees lit brightly by the sun shining in dry air. In humid air, the leaves would be darker, but now they are bright, and you can see lighted space between them, so that each lef is distinct; and each leaf is receiving sacraments of light and air and water and earth. So am I, in the breeze of my skin, the air I breath, the sky and earth and trees I look at.If I were much wiser, and much more patient, and had much greater concentration, I could sit in silence in my chair, look out my windows at a green tree and the blue sky, and know that breathing is a gift; that a breath is efficient for the moment; and that breathing air is breathing God3) My Master From A Garden Rose, Gordon Young; Scholars 20074) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon7) Sing, Ye Faithful, Wayne Dirksen; Scholars 20098) Prayers9) Veneration tag10) Closing11) God So Loved the World tag | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey | Sacred Time Podcast 15 APR 2011Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist 1) T.G.T.T. (Too Good To Title), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, Vocalist, 20112) Opening3) Ps. 66 Be Joyful In God, Carson Cooman, Scholars, 20124) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon7) Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in All Lands), BWV 51, Johann Sebastian Bach; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, Soprano, 20088) Prayers9) Veneration tag10) Closing11) God So Loved the World tag | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Easter | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for April 8, 2012Podcast 8 APR 20121) My Lord What A Morning, Harry T. Burleigh; Scholars 20082) Opening3) Easter Chorale, Samuel Barber, Scholars 20074) Gospel read by Pace Willisson, Christ Church, Medway5) Easter Epistle, Edward A. Broms; Scholars 20076) Sermon preached by Jep Streit7) Easter Triumph, Easter Joy, Carson Cooman; Scholars 20098) Prayers9) Veneration Chant tag10) Closing11) God So Loved the World tagEdward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Where's Jesus? | Sacred Time Podcast 1 APR 20121) Fanye Njia, Flora Mbasha (From Tanzania); text below2) Opening3) Reading Excerpt from "THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS" By Oliver Wendall Holmes (1809-94).Year after year beheld the silent toilThat spread his lustrous coil;Still, as the spiral grew,He left the past year's dwelling for the new,Stole with soft step its shining archway through,Built up its idle door,Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,Child of the wandering sea,Cast from her lap, forlorn!From thy dead lips a clearer note is bornThan ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;While on mine ear it rings,Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:--Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!Let each new temple, nobler than the last,Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,Till thou at length art free,Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!4) Lord, I Lift Your Name on High, Rick Founds; Cantorum, 20125) Gospel reading read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel Church, Wakefield6) Psalm 22, setting by Edward A. Broms; Scholars, 20077) Sermon8) Christus Factus Est, Anton Bruckner; Scholars, 20089) Prayers10)The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen; Scholars with Jason Cohen and Incus, 201111)Closing12)Vinea Electa Mea, Francis Poulenc; Scholars, 2010FANYA NJIA, by Flora Mbashafanya njia Bwana fanya njia Bwanafanya njia Bwana fanya njia BWana.MAKE A WAYDone through the LordMade through the LordDone through the Lord Make a way LordEdward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 18, 20121. O Taste and See, R.V. Williams; Cantorum 20122. Opening3. From Now and Then by Frederick BuechnerHumanly speaking, in fact, who can say for sure about anything? And yet there are some things I would be willing to bet maybe even my life on.That life is grace, for instance—the givenness of it, the fathomlessness of it, the endless possibilities of its becoming transparent to something extraordinary beyond itself. That—as I picked up somewhere in Jung and whittled into the ash stick I use for tramping around through the woods sometimes—vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit, which I take to mean that in the long run, whether you call on him or don’t call on him, God will be present with you. That if we really had our eyes open, we would see that all moments are key moments. That he who does not love remains in death. That Jesus is the Word made flesh who dwells among us full of grace and truth. On good days I might add a few more to the list. On bad days it’s possible there might be a few less.Beyond that, all I can do with real assurance is once more to echo my old teacher Paul Tillich to the effect that here and there even in our world, and now and then even in ourselves, we catch glimpses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glimpses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found,” as Godric says, “and all death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”1) Rock of Ages, hymn2) Gospel Reading read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity Church, Concord3) God So Loved the World, John Stainer, Scholars 20074) Sermon preached by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone5) A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke; J. Thomas Morris, soloist 20126) Prayers7) Improvisation on Rock of Ages, Ed Broms, piano 20128) Closing9) Improvisation on Guide Me, O Thou Jehovah, Ed Broms, piano 2012Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by The Reverend Kiel Walter Mitchell | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 11, 20121. Steal Away tag2. Opening3. The Beulah Land, Squire Parsons; Shelby Condray, baritone, 20124. ReadingThe Prayer of Archbishop Oscar RomeroIt helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,It is even beyond our vision.We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.Nothing we do is complete,Which is another way of saying thatThe Kingdom always lies beyond us.No statement says all that should be said.No prayer fully expressed our faith.No confession brings perfection.No pastoral visit brings wholeness.No program accomplishes the church’s mission.No set of goals and objectives includes everything.This is what we are about.We plant the seeds that one day will grow.We water seeds already planted, Knowing that they hold future promise.We lay foundations that will need further development.We provide yeast that produced effects far beyond our capabilities.We cannot do everything,And there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,A step along the way,An opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.We may never see the end results,But that is the differenceBetween the master builder and the worker.We are workers, not master builders,Ministers, not messiahs.We are prophets of a future that is not our own.1) Trisagion tag2) Sermon3) The Glory Train, Penn and Spooner Oldham; Cantorum, J. Thomas Morris, soloist; 20124) Prayers5) Jesus Remember Me, Taize6) Closing7) God So Loved the World, tag | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Misery and Lent | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 4, 20121) The Name Above All Names, Carson Cooman; Scholars, 20122) Opening3) ReadingExcerpt from Dare to Forgive by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.When we have been hurt, or when we have hurt someone else, the cumbersome psychological machinery of retribution cranks up like an awful instrument from the Great Inquisition. The cables of this psychological machinery run deep in our brains and in our cultural history. If there were a set of Newton’s Laws for psychology as there is for motion, one of them would surely be: For every wrong, humans seek an equal and opposite wrong.We don’t have much equipment to resist this all-but-irresistible force. The only tool we’re given to resist it is our will to do so, but we must use that lonely tool as pitifully inadequate as it might seem to be. By wanting to, we can start to renounce the forces of hatred coiled within us. On the other hand, if you don’t want to, you won’t forgive. You’ll merely forget.But habitual, active forgiveness, the kind of forgiveness that elevates your life and makes you a healthier, happier, more effective person, does not happen by accident, by revelation or by mere passage of time.Forgiveness comes from a decision you made long ago to live a certain way. You don’t have to be religious; indeed, many religious people can’t forgive anything. You don’t have to be goody-goody; indeed, many goody-goodies are secretly nasty. You don’t have to become a saint, take special vows, undergo therapy or get on some medication. All you really have to do is look for the best in others and in yourself. When you try to do that, you set forgiveness in motion.4) Psalm 103, setting by Edward A. Broms; Scholars, 20125) Gospel Reading read by Charlie Evett, All Saints Brookline6) Trisagion tag7) Sermon: “Misery and Lent” preached by The Reverend Canon Steven C. Bonsey8) Nunc Dimittis, Karl Henning; Scholars 20129) Prayers10) Veneration Chant tag11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tagEdward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wilderness of Lent | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 26, 20121) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingThe Journey by Mary OliverOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice --though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles."Mend my life!"each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do --determined to savethe only life you could save. 4) Call to Remembrance, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars, 20075) Gospel Reading read by Sue Kelly, Diocesan Staff6) Holy God, from Songs @ The Crossing tag7) Sermon: The Wilderness of Lent preached by Dean Streit8) Hid Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars, 20079) Prayers10) Veneration Chant tag11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tagEdward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 19, 20121) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingExcerpt from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas MertonThe rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by the multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. 4) A Cosmic Prayer, Carson Cooman: Scholars 20095) Gospel Reading read by Diane Pound, Diocesan Staff6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon, preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone8) Alleluia, Randall Thompson; Scholars 20099) Prayers10) Veneration Chant tag11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tagEdward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time-Christ the Nautilus | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 12, 20121) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) Reading Excerpt from “Can You Say…Hero?” by Tom JunodOnce upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. Heaven is the place where good people go when they die, but this man, Fred Rogers, didn't want to go to heaven; he wanted to live in heaven, here, now, in this world, and so one day, when he was talking about all the people he had loved in this life, he looked at me and said, "The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is, Tom. We make so many connections here on earth. Look at us--I've just met you, but I'm investing in who you are and who you will be, and I can't help it."The next afternoon, I went to his office in Pittsburgh. A woman was with him, sitting in a big chair. Her name was Deb. She was a minister at Fred Rogers's church. She spent much of her time tending to the sick and the dying. Fred Rogers loved her very much, and so, out of nowhere, he smiled and put his hand over hers. "Will you be with me when I die?" he asked her, and when she said yes, he said, "Oh, thank you, my dear." Then, with his hand still over hers and his eyes looking straight into hers, he said, "Deb, do you know what a great prayer you are? Do you know that about yourself? Your prayers are just wonderful." Then he looked at me. I was sitting in a small chair by the door, and he said, "Tom, would you close the door, please?" I closed the door and sat back down. "Thanks, my dear," he said to me, then turned back to Deb. "Now, Deb, I'd like to ask you a favor," he said. "Would you lead us? Would you lead us in prayer?"Deb stiffened for a second, and she let out a breath, and her color got deeper. "Oh, I don't know, Fred," she said. "I don't know if I want to put on a performance …"Fred never stopped looking at her or let go of her hand. "It's not a performance. It's just a meeting of friends," he said. He moved his hand from her wrist to her palm and extended his other hand to me. I took it and then put my hand around her free hand. His hand was warm, hers was cool, and we bowed our heads, and closed our eyes, and I heard Deb's voice calling out for the grace of God. What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella. I had never prayed like that before, ever. I had always been a great prayer, a powerful one, but only fitfully, only out of guilt, only when fear and desperation drove me to it … and it hit me, right then, with my eyes closed, that this was the moment Fred Rogers--Mister Rogers--had been leading me to from the moment he answered the door of his apartment in his bathrobe and asked me about Old Rabbit. Once upon a time, you see, I lost something, and prayed to get it back, but when I lost it the second time, I didn't, and now this was it, the missing word, the unuttered promise, the prayer I'd been waiting to say a very long time."Thank you, God," Mister Rogers said. 4) Phos Hilaron, James Woodman; Scholars 20095) Gospel read by Alison Hay, Diocesan Staff6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey8) Eternal Light, Herbert Howells; Scholars 20079) Prayers10) The Lord Is My Light, hymn11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tag | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 5, 20121) Nuhro (Hymn of Light) – excerpt 1; Karl Henning; Scholars 20092) Opening3) Reading Why I Wake Early by Mary OliverHello, sun in my face.Hello, you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories,and into the windows of, even, themiserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was,dear star, that just happensto be where you are in the universeto keep us from ever-darkness,to ease us with warm touching,to hold us in the great hands of light –good morning, good morning, good morning.Watch, now, how I start the dayin happiness, in kindness.4) Nuhro-excerpt 25) Gospel read by Clare Moffitt, Diocesan Staff6) Nuhro-excerpt 37) Sermon preached by Dean Jep Streit8) Surge Illuminare, William Byrd; Scholars 20089) Prayers10) Nuhro-excerpt 411) Closing12) Nuhro-excerpt 5 | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Christ the Dragon | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 29, 20121) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) Reading Excerpt from Encounters with Chinese Writers by Annie DillardWe are all going up to Malibu for dinner; Zhang Jie and Allen Ginsberg are sitting in the back of the van. Between them, by chance, sits an interpreter. Zhang Jie is dressed to the nines, in a severely tailored blue dress.How did it get started between them? I witness only the climax: “Mr. Ginsberg!” Zhang Jie is leaning forward fiercely over the interpreters knees. Her slender shoulders are squared. “You should not think only of yourself! You must live and work so as to fulfill your obligations! Have your goals firmly in your mind. You should not take drugs! Thank of your responsibility to society. As for myself, my goal are always clear. My mind is never confused!”Ginsberg smiles his intelligent, vulnerable smile and tilts his head like the Cheshire cat.“My mind,” he says with the tiniest shrug, “is always confused.”4) The Call, Leo Nestor; The Cathedral Scholars, 20075) Gospel read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity, Concord6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey8) Fix Me, Spiritual, Hall Johnson; The Cathedral Scholars, 20089) Prayers10) Veneration tag11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tag | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time Preached by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 22, 20121) Deep River tag2) Opening3) Reading 4) Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paulus; Cathedral Scholars, 20075) Gospel read by Jan Boyd, Trinity, Haverhill6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon, preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone8) Up to the Mountain, Patti Griffin; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist; with Rakalam Bob Moses, drums9) Prayers10)Veneration tag11)Closing12)Dreamer, Suzanne Sterling; Ed Broms soloist; with Rakalam Bob Moses, drums (text below)Dreamer; Suzanne SterlingLaying here before YouI dance under your moonAnd naked here before YouA bag of bonesI cannot see my wayI cannot see anything at allI’m standing at the crossroadsAnd I don’t know which way to goI’m dyin’ down hereSometimes all I see is despairSometimes I hear musicI hear musicI hear music that noone else can hearOh Dreamer Dreamer Dream Dreamer Ooh my Dreamer Dream Dreamer Oh Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer ah!I must see Your faceI will whisper in your earYou are the breath inside the breathInside the breath inside the breathAnd I surrenderAnd I will listenAnd I will try to be strong yeahI will sing Your PraisesI will sing Your PraisesI will sing Your freedom songChorusI sing praises to the one who is made of the sunI sing praises to the queen of the darkI sing praises to the flame of the soulWe are eternalChorus | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 15, 20121) Let Us Worship Christ, Yolanda Adams; Lori Dow, soloist, 20082) Opening3) Reading From “A Testament of Hope” by Martin Luther King, Jr.The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force that will bring new light to this dark city. The holy Scripture says, "A little child shall lead them." The death of these little children may lead our whole Southland from the low road of man's inhumanity to man to the high road of peace and brotherhood. These tragic deaths may lead our nation to substitute an aristocracy of character for an aristocracy of color. The spilled blood of these innocent girls may cause the whole citizenry of Birmingham to transform the negative extremes of a dark past into the positive extremes of a bright future. Indeed this tragic event may cause the white South to come to terms with its conscience.And so I stand here to say this afternoon to all assembled here, that in spite of the darkness of this hour we must not despair. We must not become bitter, nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate with violence. No, we must not lose faith in our white brothers. Somehow we must believe that the most misguided among them can learn to respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.4) Yes, Lord, hymn 20085) Reading6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit “What’s in a Name?”8) Come Sunday, Duke Ellington; Patrice Williamson, soloist, 20099) Prayers10) The Lord’s Prayer, Albert Hay Malotte, arr. Ed Broms; Lori Dow, soloist, 200811) Closing12) We Shall Come Over, Ardie Walser; Ed Broms, piano and vocals | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - What's in a Name | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 1, 20121) Lully Lulla, Trad.; Scholars, 20112) Opening3) Reading From “The Stillness We Seek” by The Rev. Cathy GeorgeTears are a gift. What if God had made us without them? We are meant neither to hold them back nor to make too much of them. They are simply the apparatus God has given us to express feelings that run deeper than words: tears of joy, tears of sorrow, tears of pain. Some of us cry easily and frequently while others can hardly remember the last time we cried. Tears are evoked by sights we see, by beauty, by the emotions of others, by music, by pain, loss, and tragedy.God feeds us with the “bread of tears” and “bowls of tears to drink” as certainly as with a crusty loaf of warm bread on our dinner table and a bowl of soup when we are hungry. Don’t force upon your tears the tyranny of understanding. Let them be. Let them come. They are making sense of your life in ways your mind cannot. Let them release the joy of a wedding, the pain of a divorce, the sadness of grief, the loss of a loved one. Tears are a gift from God.4) God Bless the Child, Holiday/Herzog; Sara Bielanski, soloist; Rich Kelley, flugelhorn, 20075) Gospel read by David Prentice, St. John's, Gloucester6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit “What’s in a Name?”8) O Magnum Mysterium, Francis Poulenc; Scholars, 2007 (text and translation below)9) Prayers10) Veneration tag11) Closing12) God So Loved the World tagLatin textO magnum mysterium,et admirabile sacramentum,ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,jacentem in praesepio!Beata Virgo, cujus viscerameruerunt portareDominum Christum.Alleluia.English translationO great mystery,and wonderful sacrament,that animals should see the new-born Lord,lying in a manger!Blessed is the Virgin whose wombwas worthy to bearChrist the Lord.Alleluia! | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Christmas | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for December 25, 20111) Deep River tag2) Opening3) Her Long Illness Daybreak until nightfall,he sat by his wife at the hospitalwhile chemotherapy drippedthrough the catheter into her heart.He drank coffee and read the Globe. He paced; he workedon poems; he rubbed her backand read aloud. Overcome with dread,they wept and affirmed their love for each other, witlessly,over and over again.When it snowed one morning Jane gazedat the darkness blurredwith flakes. They pushed the IV pumpwhich she called Igorslowly past the nurses' pods, as faras the outside doorso that she could smell the snowy air. 4) Silent Night, arr. Leo Abbott; The Cathedral Scholars, 20115) Gospel Reading read by John Anderson, Trinity, Concord6) Listen to the Shepherd tag7) Sermon8) O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen; The Cathedral Scholars, 2011 (text and translation below)9) Prayers10) Go Tell It, Kirk Franklin/Blessed; Blessed-The Cathedral Gospel Choir, Rebecca Muir, soloist, 2010 (studio recording)11) Closing12) Joy to the World, hymn; Rich Kelley, trumpet, 2010Latin textO magnum mysterium,et admirabile sacramentum,ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,jacentem in praesepio!Beata Virgo, cujus viscerameruerunt portareDominum Christum.Alleluia.English translationO great mystery,and wonderful sacrament,that animals should see the new-born Lord,lying in a manger!Blessed is the Virgin whose wombwas worthy to bearChrist the Lord.Alleluia! | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Mary's Double-Bind, and Ours | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for December 18, 20111) Motet for the Annunciation, Frank Ferko; Cathedral Scholars 20062) Opening3) Gospel Reading read by Holiday Houck, Trinity, Boston4) Ave, Dulcissima Maria, Julian Wachner; Cathedral Scholars 20095) Reading6) Listen to the Shepherd tag7) Sermon, Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey8) A Spotless Rose, Herbert Howells; Cathedral Scholars 20069) Prayers10)I Want to Be Ready tag11)Closing12)There Is No Rose, Edward A. Broms; Cathedral Scholars 2006 | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just the Sermon - I Am Not | December 11, 2011Sacred Time Podcast from St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral 1) Deep River tag2) Opening3) ReadingThe Temptation to be RelevantExcerpted from In the Name of Jesus by Henry J.M. NouwenThe first thing that struck me when I came to live in a house with mentally handicapped people was that their liking or disliking me had absolutely nothing to do with any of the many useful things I had done until then. Since nobody could read my books, they could not impress anyone, and since most of them never went to school, my twenty years at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard did not provide a significant introduction. My considerable ecumenical experience proved even less valuable. When I offered some meat to one of the assistants during dinner, one of the handicapped men said to me, “Don’t give him meat., he doesn’t eat meat, he’s a Presbyterian.”Not able to use any of the skills that had proved so practical in the past was a real source of anxiety. I was suddenly faced with my naked self, open for affirmations and rejections, hugs and punches, smiles and tears, all dependent simply on how I was perceived at the moment. In a way, it seemed as though I was starting my life all over again. Relationships, connections, reputations could no longer be counted on.This experience was and, in many ways, is still the most experience of my new life because it forced me to rediscover my true identity. These broken, wounded and completely unpretentious people forced me to let go of my relevant self—the self that can do things, show things, prove things, build things—and forced me to reclaim that unadorned self in which I am completely vulnerable, open to receive and give love regardless of any accomplishments.4) Lost in the Wilderness, Scwartz/Caird; J.Thomas Morris, tenor, 20115) Gospel read by Lynn Clark, Cathedral Staff6) Listen to the Shepherd tag7) Sermon: I Am Note preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey8) Adam lay bounden, Carson Cooman; Cathedral Scholars, 20099) Prayers10) Hard Times Come Again No More, Stephen Foster, Cathedral Cantorum, 201111) Closing12) Jesus Loves Me, Trad.; Cathedral Cantorum, 2011 | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Keeping Awake | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 27, 20111) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingExcerpt from The Writing Life by Annie DillardOne of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: “Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.4) Ev’n So Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz; Cathedral Scholars, 20065) Reading read by Pace Willison, Christ Church, Medway6) Listen to the Shepherd, tag7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone8) Rorate Caeli, Leo Nestor (text and translation below); Cathedral Scholars, 20069) Prayers10)I Want to Be Ready, tag11)Closing12)God So Loved the World, tagLatin textRorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justum: aperiatur terra, et germinet salvatorem.Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob.Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. English translationDrop down ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: Let the earth open and bring forth a Saviour.Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 20, 20111) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingExcerpt from Dorothy Day, A Radical Devotion by Robert ColesIn the spring of 1952, I was a medical student ready to abandon the idea of medicine. I showed up at the Catholic Worker soup kitchen on the Lower East Side in New York. I had decided to try to be of help, to do some volunteer work, and remembered hearing of this place. It was on that afternoon, almost thirty-five years ago, that I first met Dorothy Day. She was sitting at a table, talking with a woman who was, I quickly realized, quite drunk, yet determined to carry on a conversation.I found myself increasingly confused by what seemed to be an interminable, essentially absurd exchange taking place between the two middle-aged women. When would it end—the alcoholic ranting and the silent nodding, occasionally interrupted by a brief question, which only served, maddeningly, to wind up the already over talkative one rather than wind her down? Finally, silence fell upon the room. Dorothy Day asked the woman if she would mind an interruption. She got up and came over to me. She said, “Are you waiting to talk with one of us?”One of us: with those three words she had cut through layers of self-importance, a lifetime of bourgeois privilege, and scraped the hard bone of pride…With those three words, so quietly and politely spoken, she had indirectly told me what the Catholic Worker Movement is all about and what she herself was like.There would be other lessons, many just as hard to absorb and keep alive within myself. Dorothy Day was a most determined teacher, well aware that in those, like me, who came to learn from her, modesty and humility are poses difficult to sustain for long stretches of time.4) Exultate Deo, Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 20095) Gospel Reading read by Elizabeth Eaton, St. Peter's, Weston6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey 8) Hands, Jewel; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist, 20119) Prayers10)Veneration Chant, Jason Cohen11)God So Loved the World tag | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Terrible Parable of the Talents preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey | Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 13, 20111) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingPrayer by Marie HoweEvery day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important calls for my attention—the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggageI need to buy for the trip.Even now I can hardly sit hereamong the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outsidealready screeching and banging.The mystics say you are as close as my own breath.Why do I flee from you?My days and nights pour through me like complaintsand become a story I forgot to tell.Help me. Even as I write these words I am planningto rise from the chair as soon as I finish this sentence.4) Prayer For Generosity, Michael Burog; Cathedral Scholars, 20105) Gospel Reading read by Brett Donham, St. Paul’s, Brookline6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon: “The Terrible Parable of the Talents” preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey8) Pursuance, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 20099) Prayers10) Veneration Procession, Jason Cohen, 201011) Closing12) God So Loved the World tag | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | Podcast 11.6.11 1. Introit for All Saints Richard Shepherd 20102. Opening3. ReadingExcerpt from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie DillardNo one, least of all the organist, could find the opening hymn. Then no one knew it. Then no one could sing anyway.There was no sermon, only announcements.The priest proudly introduced the rascally acolyte who was going to light the two Advent candles. As we all could plainly see, the rascally acolyte had already lighted them.During the long intercessory prayer, the priest always reads “Intentions” from the parishioners. These are slips of paper, dropped into a box before the service begins, on which people have written their private concerns, by one, and we respond on cue. “For a baby safely delivered on November 20th,” the priest intones, “we pray to the Lord.” We all responded, “Lord, hear our prayer.” Suddenly the priest broke in and confided to our bowed heads, “That’s the baby we’ve been praying for the past two months! The woman just kept getting more and more pregnant!” How often, how shockingly often, have I exhausted myself in church from the effort to keep from laughing out loud? I often laugh all the way home. Then the priest read the next intention. “For my son, that he may forgive his father. We pray to the Lord.” “Lord, hear our prayer,” we responded, chastened.A high school stage play is more polished than this service we have been rehearsing since the year one. In two thousand years, we have not worked out the kinks. We positively glorify them. Week after week we witness the same miracle: that God is so mighty he can stifle his own laughter. Week after week Christ washes the disciples’ dirty feet, handles their very toes, and repeats. It is all right—believe it or not—to be people.Who can believe it?4. Litanei Franz Schubert Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano; Aaaron Styles, Bass 20105. Gospel read by Taylor Anderson, Trinity, Concord6. Alleluia tag7. Sermon preach by Dean Streit8. Edidem, Offiong Bassey, 20119. Prayers10. Beati, Taize/Broms, with Offiong Bassey 201111. Closing12. Resolution from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (same personnel and info as last week's Coltrane piece etc | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | October 30, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s 1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingSometimes by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes things don't go, after all,from bad to worse. Some years, muscadelfaces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.A people sometimes step back from war;elect an honest man; decide they care enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.Some men become what they were born for.Sometimes our best efforts do not goamiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrowthat seemed hard frozen: may it happen to you1) Lord, Make to Know Thy Ways, William Byrd; Cathedral Cantorum, 20112) Gospel Reading read by Sue Kelly, Diocesan Staff3) Alleluia tag4) Sermon preached by Dean Streit 5) That They May Rest; Cathedral Scholars 20106) Prayers7) Veneration Procession tag8) Closing9) Acknowledgement, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 2009 10) God So Loved the World tagAll music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The God I Don't Believe In | October 23, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s 1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingThe Star Market by Marie Howe The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday.An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkoutbreathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard andhawking into his hand. The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them:shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Markethad declared a day off for the able-bodied, and I had wandered inwith the rest of them—sour milk, bad meat—looking for cereal and spring water.Jesus must have been a saint, I said to myself, looking for my lost carin the parking lot later, stumbling among the people who would havebeen lowered into rooms by ropes, who would have creptout of caves or crawled from the corners of public baths on their handsand knees begging for mercy.If I touch only the hem of his garment, one woman thought,could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?4) If Ye Love Me, Richard DeLong; The Cathedral Scholars, 20085) Gospel read by Charlie Evett, All Saints, Brookline6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon “The God I Don’t Believe In” preached by Dean Streit8) South African Creed9) Prayers10) Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure; The Cathedral Scholars, 2009 (text and translation below)11) Closing12) Psalm, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 2009 (text below)13) God So Loved the World tagAll music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist.I will do all I can to be worthy of Thee O Lord. It all has to do with it. Thank you God. Peace. There is none other. God is, It is so beautiful. Thank you God. God is all. Help us to resolve our fears and weaknesses. Thank you God. In You all things are possible. We know. God made us so. Keep your eye on God. God is. He always was. He always will be. No matter what…it is God. He is gracious and merciful. It is most important that I know Thee. Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions – time – all related…all made from one…all made in one. Blessed be His name. Thought waves – heat waves – all vibrations – all paths lead to God. Thank you God. His way…it is so lovely…it is gracious. It is merciful – thank you God. His way…it is so lovely…it is gracious. It is merciful – thank you God. One thought can produce millions of vibrations and they all go back to God…everything does. Thank you God. Have no fear…believe…thank you God.The universe has many wonders. God is all. His way…it is so wonderful. Thoughts – deeds – vibrations, etc. They all go back to God and He cleanses all. He is gracious and merciful…thank you God. Glory to God…God is so alive. God is. God loves. May I be acceptable in Thy sight. We are all one in His grace. The fact that we do exist is acknowledgement of Thee of Lord. Thank you God. God will wash away all our tears…He always has…He always will. Seek Him everyday. In all ways seek God everyday. Let us sing all songs to God To whom all praise is due…praise God. No road is an easy one, but they all go back to God. With all we share God. It is all with God. It is all with Thee. Obey the Lord. Blessed is He. We are from one thing…the will of God…thank you God. I have seen God – I have seen ungodly – none can be greater – none can compare to God. Thank you God. He will remake us…He always has and He always will. It is true – blessed be His name | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Jesus, Religion and Politics | October 16, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s 1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingExcerpt from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiJep suggests that this selection is true about praying as well as running:So I try, in the short amount of time I have, to take care of all these things as best I can. And I have to keep up my running to prepare for the NYC marathon. Even if there were two of me, I still couldn’t do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I’m not going to lay off or quit just because I’m busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do it keep those few reasons nicely polished.4) Of Righteousness, Richard Shepherd; Cathedral Scholars, 20065) Gospel reading read by Betsy Munzer, St. Paul's, Brookline6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey8) Os Justi, Anton Bruckner; Cathedral Scholars, 2010 9) Prayers10) Jesus on the Wire, Thea Hopkins; Thea Hopkins, guitar and vocal; 2008 11) Closing12) Great Day, Glenn Burleigh; Cathedral Scholars, 2008 All music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | October 9, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s 1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingThe Journey by Mary OliverOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice --though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles."Mend my life!"each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do --determined to savethe only life you could save.4) Locus Iste, Anton Bruckner, The Cathedral Scholars, 20115) Gospel reading read by Joan Gorga, St. John's, Gloucester6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit8) Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee, Eric Thiman; J.Thomas Morris, tenor, 20119) Prayers10) Tantum Ergo, Anton Bruckner, The Cathedral Scholars, 201111) Closing12) I’ll Fly Away, Trad.; The Cathedral Cantorum, Sara Bielanski and Jamie Lynn Hart, soloists, 201113) God So Loved the World tag | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | October 2, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s1) Steal Away tag2) A Cosmic Prayer, Carson Cooman; The Cathedral Scholars, 20093) Opening and non-scriptural reading4) Horses In My Dreams, PJ Harvey; Ed Broms, piano and vocal, 20085) Gospel reading read by Diane Pound, Diocesan Staff6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit8) Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace, John Rutter; The Cathedral Scholars, 20099) Prayers10) A Prayer for Generosity, Michael Burgo; The Cathedral Scholars, 200911) Closing12) All Creatures of Our God and King, hymn13) The Spider, Steve Walsh; Ed Broms, organ, 200714) God So Loved the World tag"Horses In My Dreams" (PJ Harvey)Horses in my dreams Like waves, like the sea They pull out of here They pull, they are freeRode a horse around the world Along the tracks of a train Broke the record, found the gold Set myself free againI have pulled myself clearHorses in my dreamsLike waves, like the sea On the tracks of a train Set myself free againI have pulled myself clear | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Is There Encouragement in Christ? | September 25, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s 1) Steal Away tag2) Opening3) ReadingTo be of use, by Marge PiercyThe people I love the bestJump into work head firstWithout dallying in the shallowsAnd swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.They seem to become natives of that element,The black sleek heads of sealsBouncing like half-submerged balls.I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,Who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,Who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,Who do what has to be done, again and again.I want to be with people who submergeIn the task, who go into the fields to harvestAnd work in a row and pass the bags along,Who are not parlor generals and field desertersBut move in a common rhythmWhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.The work of the world is common as mud.Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.But the thing worth doing well doneHas a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.Greek amphoras for wine or oil,Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museumsBut you know they were made to be used.The pitcher cries for water to carryAnd a person for work that is real.4) I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, Sinead O’Connor; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist, 20115) Gospel Reading (Matthew 21:23-32) read by Lynn Clark, Christ Church, Quincy6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone: Is There Encouragement in Christ?8) When He Returns, Bob Dylan; Sara Bielanski, soloist, 20089) Prayers10) Veneration Processional tag11) O Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins; The Cathedral Gospel Choir (Blessed), Elisa Lomazzo, soloist, 201112) God So Loved the World tag | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time-Preached by Jep Streit | Podcast 18 Sep 20111) Steal Away tag2) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 23) Opening4) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 35) Reading6) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 4, Blake’s Pancakes: dedicated to pianist Ran Blake7) Sermon8) My Friend, Ed Broms, Ed Broms, piano and vocal9) Prayers10) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 511) Closing12) Birds of the Abyss, Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms, based on the clarinet solo of the same title from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”, dedicated to Sonia ManeriMY FRIEND (by Ed Broms)Been such a long timeTraveling this roadTrying to find my SaviorGonna lighten her loadOne thing I knowI'm not aloneI've seen you up ahead, my friendI've watched you down belowRunning so fast childWalking so slowOne thing I knowThere's more than one way to goIf I climb the mountainBefore I dieAnd meet with my MakerBy touching the skyI promise youI won't leave you behindIf you find your wayBack to your homeAnd dem bones they rise againTo roll back the stoneOne thing I knowYou won't be aloneIf you find the Truth in thereThen tell me no liesIf you don't see me thereOut in that LightThen won't you pleaseShow me a signCause one thing I knowI am your friend | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The Challenge to Forgive | September 11, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s1) Call to Remembrance, Carson Cooman; Cathedral Scholars 20092) Opening and Reading3) Timor et Tremor, Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 20094) Gospel read by Judith Lidberg, SSJE Monastery, Cambridge, and member of Diocesan Staff5) Vinea Me Electa, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 20096) Sermon, Preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey7) O Vos Omnes, Pablo Casals; Cathedral Scholars, 20078) Prayers9) Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 200910) Closing11) Nuhro (Light), Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars, 2009 | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | -- | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone | Sacred Time Podcast August 28, 20111. Veneration tag2. Opening3. Reading:God is the MirrorShira FreewomanGod is the mirror you look intoYou see herSmiling back at youDancing. ForgivenessForgiveness meansYou put down the swordYou aim towardsYour own heart.Instead,You pick upThe child in youAnd kiss it‘Til s/he smiles backThe love you thought you lost.4. Call To Remembrance, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars 20075. Reading. Read by Pace Willison, Christ Church, Medway6. Alleluia tag7. Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone8. Tristis Est Anima Mea, Leo Abbott; Cathedral Scholars 20079. Prayers10. The New Medicine Song tag11. Closing12. God So Loved the World tag | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Rev. Tina Rathbone | 1. Veneration tag2. Opening3. Reading“The Planned Child” from The Wellspring by Sharon OldsI hated the fact that they had planned me, she had takena cardboard out of his shirt from the laundryas if sliding the backbone up out of his body,and made a chart of the month and put her temperature on it, rising and falling,to know the day to make me—I would haveliked to have been conceived in heat,in haste, by mistake, in love, in sex,not on cardboard, the little x on the rising line that did not fall again.But when a friend was pouring wineand said that I seem to have been a child who had been wanted,I took the wine against my lipsas if my mouth were moving alongthat valved wall in my mother’s body, she wasbearing down, and then breathing from the mask, and thenbearing down, pressing me out intothe world that was not enough for her without me in it,not the moon, the sun, Orioncartwheeling across the dark, notthe earth, the sea—none of itwas enough, for her, without me.4. Anima Christi, Robert Bird, Cathedral Scholars 20075. Reading read by Suzette Phillips, St. John's, Taunton6. Alleluia tag7. Sermon8. The Walls of Zion, Aaron Copeland; Cathedral Scholars 20079. Prayers10. The New Medicine Song tag11. Closing12. God So Loved the World tag | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Guest Preacher | 1) Easter Cantata, Prelude, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 20112) Opening3) Reading: “Otherwise” by Jane KenyonI got out of bedon two strong legs.It might have beenotherwise. I atecereal, sweetmilk, ripe, flawlesspeach. It mighthave been otherwise.I took a dog uphillto the birch wood.All morning I didthe work I love.At noon I lay downwith my mate. It mighthave been otherwise.We ate dinner togetherat a table with silver candlesticks. It mighthave been otherwise.I slept in a bedin a room with paintingson the walls, andplanned another dayjust like this day.But one day, I know,it will be otherwise.4) Easter Cantata 1, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011 5) Reading read by Brett Donham, St. Paul’s, Brookline6) Easter Cantata 2, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 20117) Sermon, Isaac Everett8) Easter Cantata 3, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 20119) Prayers10) Closing11) Easter Cantata 4, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011 | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time | Podcast 7 AUG 2011:1) Veneration tag2) Yes, Lord, Trad.; Cathedral Scholars, 20083) Opening4) Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paullus; Cathedral Scholars, 20085) Reading6) Alleluia tag7) Sermon, Rathbone8) Bless the Lord, O My Soul, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars, 20079) Prayers10) The New Medicine Song tag11) Closing12) Organ Symphony #1, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms and Peter Krasinski, organ (Both performers at one console); 2008 | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - preached by Cameron Partridge | Sacred Time Podcast 31 Jul 2011:1) Veneration Chant, Jason Cohen, tag2) Down to the River to Pray, Traditional; Cathedral Scholars, Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano, 20063) Opening4) Great Day, Trad., arranged by Moses Hogan; Cathedral Scholars, Jamie Urquhart, Soprano, 20075) Reading6) Alleluia in D, Karl Henning, tag7) Sermon: Cameron Partridge8) Deep River, Trad., arranged by Paul Ayres; Cathedral Scholars, Caroline Musica, Soprano, 20089) Prayers10) The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen, tag11) Closing12) Organ Symphony #1, Movement #4, Var. 9, 10, 11, 12, Edward A. Broms; Edward Broms, organ, 200813) God So Loved the World, John Steiner, tag | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - A Weed for Seeing | Podcast 24 July 20111) Veneration of the Tree of Life, tag2) Phos Hilaron, James Woodman; Cathedral Scholars, 2009 (text below)3) OpeningWest Wind #2 by Mary OliverYou are young. So you know everything. You leapinto the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.Without fanfare, without embarrassment, withoutany doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, andyour heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen tome. There is life without love. It is not worth a bentpenny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mileaway and still out of sight, the churn of the wateras it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around thesharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakablepounding – when you feel the mist on your mouthand sense ahead the embattlement, the long fallsplunging and steaming – then row, row for your lifetoward it.4) Jubilate Deo, Benjamin Britten; Cathedral Scholars, 20075) Gospel read by Philip Welton, St. John the Evangelist, Boston6) Alleluia, tag7) Sermon, The Rev. Canon Bonsey: A weed for Seeing8) Cantique De Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure; Cathedral Scholars, 2008 (text below)9) Prayers10) The New Medicine Song, tag11) Closing12) Organ Symphony #1, Movement 4, Variation 7 (Bulgarian Kopanitsa in 11/16), and Variation 8; Edward A. Broms, organ (Var. 7); and Peter Krasinski, organ (Var. 8); 200813) God So Loved the World, tagO Gladsome Light of the Holy Glory of the Immortal Father, Heavenly, Holy, Blessed Jesus Christ! Now that we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening, we praise God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For meet it is at all times to worship Thee with voices of praise. O Son of God and Giver of Life, therefore all the world doth glorify Thee.+++++Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance,Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence,Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux!Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante,Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèlePour te bénir maintenant rassemblé.Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé!Word, equal to the Most High, our only hope,Eternal day of the earth and the heavens,From the peaceful night we break the silence,Divine Savior, cast your eyes upon us!Spread upon us the fire of your powerful wisdomMay all hell flee at the sound of your voice;Dispel that slumber of a languishing soul,Which has driven it to forget your way!Oh Christ, be favourable to this faithful peopleNow gathered to bless you.Receive the songs it offers to your immortal glory,And may it return filled with your gifts! | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.17.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralT.G.T.T. (Too Good To Title), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson , Ed Broms, piano, 2011OpeningReadingExcerpt from Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the SensesWhen I was in high school in the early sixties, nice girls didn’t go all the way—most of us wouldn’t have known how to. But man, could we kiss! We kissed for hours in the busted-up front seat of a borrowed Chevy, which, in motion, sounded like a broken dinette set; we kissed inventively, clutching our boyfriends from behind as we straddled motorcycles, whose vibrations turned our hips to jelly; we kissed extravagantly beside a turtlearium in the park, or at the local rose garden or zoo; we kissed delicately, in waves of sipping and puckering; we kissed torridly, with tongues like hot pokers; we kissed timelessly, because lovers throughout the ages knew our longing; we kissed wildly, almost painfully, with tough, soul-stealing rigor; we kissed elaborately, as if we were inventing kisses for the first time; we kissed furtively when we met in the hallways between classes; we kissed soulfully in the shadows at concerts, the way we thought musical knights of passion like The Righteous Brothers and their ladies did; we kissed articles of clothing or objects belonging to our boyfriends; we kissed our hands when we blew our boyfriends kisses across the street; we kissed our pillows at night, pretending they were mates; we kissed shamelessly, with all the robust sappiness of youth; we kissed as if kissing could save us from ourselves.Heaven, Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson , Ed Broms, piano, 2011Gospel: Read by Joan Gorga, St. Johns, Gloucester Alleluia tag Sermon Preached by the Reverend Canon Steven BonseyAlmighty God (Has Those Angels), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson, Ed Broms, piano, 2011PrayersVeneration tagClosingLong As You’re Living, Abbie Lincoln, Oscar Brown, Jr.; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson, Ed Broms, piano, 2011All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time: The Moral Character of God | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.10.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralVeneration Processional, Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011OpeningReadingPoem by e. e. cummingsi thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birthday of life and love and wings:and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any--lifted from the noof all nothing--human merely beingdoubt unimaginable You?(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)Sweetness is Knockin', Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 read by Drayton Freeman, Trinity, BostonI Come to the Garden, Hymn, 2008Sermon: “The Moral Character of God” preached by The Rev. Canon BonseyThe New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011PrayersClosingOrgan Symphony #1, Movement 4, Variation 5 and Variation 6, Edward A. Broms; Peter Krasinski www.krasinski.org , organ; 2008God So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.3.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralOyaheya tagOpeningReadingPrayer from the New Zealand Prayer BookLordit is night. The night is for stillness. Let us be still in the presence of God. It is night after a long day. What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done;let it be. The night is dark. Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives rest in you. The night is quiet. Let the quietness of your peace enfold us, all dear to us, and all who have no peace. The night heralds the dawn. Let us look expectantly to a new day, new joys, new possibilities. In your name we pray. Amen.Anima Christi, Michael Burgo; Cathedral Scholars 2007Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 read by Diane Pound, Diocesan StaffAlleluia in D, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars 2008Sermon, Preached by the Rev. Canon BonseyHide Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant, Cathedral Scholars 2008PrayersTu Es Petrus, Maurice Durufle, Cathedral Scholars 2009ClosingOrgan Symphony #1, 4th Movement, Variations 1-4, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms (1 and 3) and Peter Krasinski (2 and 4), organGod So Loved the World tagLatin textTu es Petruset super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meamet portæ inferi non prævalebunt adversus eam.Et tibi dabo claves regni cælorum. English translationYou are Peter,And upon this Rock I will build My Church:and the gates of hell shall not overcome it.And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Father, Please Put Down the Knife | Podcast 26 Jun 2011 1) Oyaheya (Praise the Spirit) tag 2) Opening and Reading How Some of it Happened by Marie Howe My brother was afraid, even as a boy, of going blind—so deeplythat he would turn the dinner knives away from, looking at him,he said, as they lay on the kitchen table.He would throw a sweatshirt over those knobs that lock the car doorfrom the inside, and once, he dismantled a chandelier in the middleof the night when everyone was sleeping.We found the pile of sharp and shining crystals in the upstairs hall.So you understand, it was terriblewhen they clamped his one eye open and put the needle in through his cheekand up and into his eye from underneathand left it there a full minute before they drew it slowly outonce a week for many weeks. He learned to, lean into it,to settle down he said, and still the eye went dead, ulcerated,breaking up green in his head, as the other eye, still blueand wide open, looked and looked at the clock.My brother promised me he wouldn’t die after our father died.He shook my hand on a train going home one Christmas and gave me five years,as clearly as he promised he’d be home for breakfast when I watched himwalk into that New York City autumn night. By nine, I promise,and he was—he did come back. And five years later he promised five years more.So much for the brave pride of premonition,the worry that won’t let it happen.You know, he said, I always knew I would die young. And then I got soberand I thought, OK, I’m not. I’m going to see thirty and live to be an old man.And now it turns out that I am going to die. Isn’t that funny?—One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.This is what my brother said: Here, sit closer to the bedso I can see you. 3) Flow My Tears, John Dowland; Salome Sandoval, voice and guitar: www.salomesandoval.com 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Cum Sancto Spiritu, from Mass in B Minor, J. S. Bach; Choir and Orchestra of L’Ensemble Medical, Gundi Gabrielle, Conductor, with The Cathedral Scholars 2011 8) Prayers 9) God So Loved the World, John Stainer, The Cathedral Scholars 2007 10) Closing 11) Organ Symphony #1, Movement #3, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2008 | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The Holy Trinity and the Unholy Trinity | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 6.19.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralSteal Away tagAscension, Edward A. Broms; Edward A, Broms, organ 2008OpeningReadingQuestions About AngelsQuestions About AngelsBy Billy Collins Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth or guiding a boy and girl across a rickety wooden bridge. Do they fly through God's body and come out singing? Do they swing like children from the hinges of the spirit world saying their names backwards and forwards? Do they sit alone in little gardens changing colors? What about their sleeping habits, the fabric of their robes, their diet of unfiltered divine light? What goes on inside their luminous heads? Is there a wall these tall presences can look over and see hell? If an angel fell off a cloud, would he leave a hole in a river and would the hole float along endlessly filled with the silent letters of every angelic word? If an angel delivered the mail, would he arrive in a blinding rush of wings or would he just assume the appearance of the regular mailman and whistle up the driveway reading the postcards? No, the medieval theologians control the court. The only question you ever hear is about the little dance floor on the head of a pin where halos are meant to converge and drift invisibly. It is designed to make us think in millions, billions, to make us run out of numbers and collapse into infinity, but perhaps the answer is simply one: one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet, a small jazz combo working in the background. She sways like a branch in the wind, her beautiful eyes closed, and the tall thin bassist leans over to glance at his watch because she has been dancing forever, and now it is very late, even for musicians. Vision of the Immortal Soul, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2009Gospel: John Matthew 28:16-20 read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel, WakefieldAlleluia tagSermon “The Holy Trinity and Unholy Trinity” by Dean Jep StreitAnthem for Pentecost, Richard Proulx; Cathedral Scholars 2007PrayersClosingOrgan Symphony #1, Movement #2, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2008God So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time-The Legacy of Jesus | 1) Meant to Live, Switchfoot; Cathedral Cantorum, J. Thomas Morris, soloist 20112) Opening3) Oyayheya (Praise the Spirit), Byers/Beckwith; Cathedral Gospel Choir, Patrice Williamson, soloist 20094) Reading5) Alleluia tag: Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars 20076) Sermon: The Legacy of Jesus, Bishop Barbara C. Harris7) Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen; Cathedral Cantorum, Jamie Lynn Hart and Joya Abbott-Graves, soloists 20118) Prayers9) Closing10) Organ Symphony #1, Movement #1: The Holy Ones, Edward A. Broms (based on Ainulindale by J.R.R. Tolkien); Peter Krasinski, organ; Recorded live at Holy Name Parish, West Roxbury, MA 2008 | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The River of Now | The River of Now1) Ascension, Edward. A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 20072) Opening3) Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder; Sara Richardson, vocals; Penny Larson, percussion; Ed Broms, piano 20084) Reading5) Alleluia tag6) Sermon, Rev. Cristina Rathbone: “The River of Now”7) God So Loved the World, John Stainer; Cathedral Scholars 20078) Prayers9) Closing10) Lift Him Up, Hezekiah Walker, Cathedral Gospel Choir 2010 | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.22.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralCome, My Way, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano, 2008Opening and extrascriptural readingsO How Amiable, Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Cathedral Scholars, 2006Gospel: John 14:1-14 read by Elizabeth Eaton, St. Peter’s, Weston Alleluia tagSermon by Dean Jep StreitLove Bade Me Welcome, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Katherine Growdon, Mezzo-Soprano, 2009PrayersClosingLaudamus Te, J.S. Bach, from Mass in B Minor; L’Ensemble Medical with The Cathedral Scholars, Gundi Gabrielle, Conductor, 2011God So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Rwandan Resurrection | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.1.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralIntroduction and Presto, Brahmachari Keith, Edward A. Broms, organ, 2007OpeningExcerpt from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons by Frederick BuechnerLet’s say it is late in the evening and everybody else has gone away or gone to bed. The time is ripe for looking back over the day, week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the thins we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or for worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts. We turn on the television maybe. We pick up a newspaper or a book. We find some chore to do that could easily wait for the next day. We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. We cling to the surface out of fear of what lies beneath the surface. And why not, after all? We get tired. We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all their twisting and turning and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.So much has happened to us all over the years. So much has happened within us and through us. We are to take time to remember what we can about it and what we dare. That’s what entering the room means, I think. It means taking time to remember on purpose. It means not picking up a book for once or turning on the radio, but letting the mind journey gravely, deliberately, back through the years that have gone by but are not gone. It means a deeper, slower kind of remembering; it means remembering as a searching and finding. The room is there for all of us to enter if we choose to, and the process of entering it is not unlike the process of praying, because praying too is a slow, grave journey—a search to find the truth of our own lives at their deepest and dearest, a search to understand, to hear and be heard.Entrata Festiva, Flor Peeters; Scholars 2008Gospel: John 20:19-31 read by Joan Gorga, St. John’s, RockportJauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, J. S. Bach; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, soprano, Edward A. Broms, piano 2008Sermon by the Rev. Cannon Steven C. Bonsey: Rwandan Resurrection My Master From A Garden Rose, Gordon Young, Scholars, 2008PrayersClosingExultate Jubilate, W. A. Mozart; Molly Jo Rivelli, soprano, Edward A. Broms, piano 2006God So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Palm Sunday | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.17.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralStay With Me, Taize Chant; 2006OpeningExcerpt from Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard ThurmanHate is another of the hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the disinherited in season and out of season. During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. To even the casual observer during the last war it was obvious that the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese gave many persons in our country an apparent justification for indulging all of their anticolored feelings. In a Chicago cab, en route to the University from Englewood, this fact was dramatized for me. The cab had stopped for a red light. Apropos of no conversation the driver turned to me, saying, “Who do they think they are? Those little yellow dogs think they can do that to white men and get away with it!”During the early days of war I noticed a definite rise in rudeness and overt expressions of color prejudice, especially in trains and other public conveyances. It was very simple; hatred could be brought out into the open, given a formal dignity and a place of respectability. But for the most part we are not vocal about our hatred. Hating is something of which to be ashamed unless it provides for us a form of validation and prestige. If either is provided, then the immoral or amoral character of the hatred is transformed into positive violence.I Will Rise tagGospel: Matthew 21:1-11 read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity, ConcordHosanna, from Mass in B Minor, J.S. Bach; L’Ensemble Medical with The Cathedral Scholars, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, 2011Sermon by the Rev. Cannon Cristina RathboneOrder My Steps, Glen Burleigh; Cathedral Gospel Choir, 2010PrayersClosingTenebrae Factae Sunt, Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, no. 4., Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 2009 Were You There, Hymn, 2008All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The Cult of Death | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.10.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralBe Still and Know tagOpeningExtra-scriptural Reading:Excerpt from On the Outside Looking In by Cristina RathboneI had spent several hours with Janina, the special-education teacher, and had watching as morning after morning she cloaked her students with an intimate and personal care that stood more effective guard against confusion that surrounds so many kids with special needs and allowed the, to actually think.One morning she drew little over shapes in green around the sentence “Who Am I?” and then added lines jutting out of it like porcupine quills, next to which she asked the kids to write whatever came into their minds, words or phrases—anything. After two minutes or so a pretty girl, delighted with the newfound knowledge that she could start a new line whenever she wanted if she called what she was writing a poem, came up with the following:I am a girlI am in tetligen sumartand I’m a girl who fightingto have hight schooland go to collageI want to become importantand educatedI am a person who fighting For everything I wanted to be.Tristis Est Anima Mea, Leo Abbott, Cathedral Scholars, 2008Gospel: John 11:1-45 read by Cathy Torrey, Trinity, WeymouthI Am the Bread of Life, HymnSermon by the Rev. Cannon Steven Bonsey: “The Cult of Death”O Vos Omnes, Pablo Casals; Cathedral Scholars, 2007PrayersClosingTimor et Tremor, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 2009God So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Blind No More | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.3.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralBe Still and Know tagCome, My Way, R. V. Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano, 2008OpeningExtra-scriptural Reading:From All Saints Daily Reflections by Robert EllsbergWhen I first found out I had cancer, I didn’t know what to pray for. I didn’t know if I should pray for healing or life or death. Then I found peace in praying for what my folks call “God’s perfect will.” As it evolved, my prayer has become “Lord, let me live until I die.” By that I mean I want to live, love, and serve fully until death comes. If that prayer is answered…how long really doesn’t matter. Whether it’s just a few months or a few years is really immaterial.Out of the Deep, Ps. 130, Eleanor Daley; Cathedral Scholars, 2008Gospel: John 9:1-41 read by Drayton Freeman, Trinity, BostonI Will Rise tagSermon by the Very Rev. Jep Streit: “Blind no More”The Lord is My Shepherd, Matthew Shepherd; Cathedral Scholars, Jessica Rossi, Soprano, 2007PrayersClosingAgnus Dei, from Mass in B Minor, J.S. Bach; L’Ensemble Medical, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, with the Cathedral Scholars, Theresa Patten, Alto, 2011All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 3.27.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralBe Still and Know tagOpeningExtra-scriptural Reading:From The Death of Adam by Marilynne RobinsonBy standards of my generation, all my life I have gone to church with a kind of persistence, as I do this day. Once recently I found myself traveling all night to be home in time for church, and it occurred to me to consider in what spirit or out of what need I would do such a thing. My tradition does not encourage the idea that God would find any merit in it. I go to church for my own gratification, which is intense, though it had never occurred to me before to try to describe it to myself.The essence of it, certainly, is the Bible, toward which I do not feel in any degree proprietary, with which after long and sometimes assiduous attention I am not familiar. I believe the entire hypertrophic bookishness of my life arose directly out of my exposure, amongst modest Protestant solemnities of music and flowers, to the language of Scripture. Therefore, I know many other books very well and I flatter myself that I understand them—even books by people like Augustine and Calvin. But I do not understand the bible. I study theology as one would watch a solar eclipse in a shadow. In church, the devout old custom persists of merely repeating verses, one or another luminous fragment, a hymn before and a hymn afterward. By grace of my ignorance, it is always new to me. I am never not instructed.Holy God (Trisagion) from Songs @ The Crossing, 2007Gospel: John 4:5-42 read by Gail Sherman, Trinity, MelroseI Will Rise tagSermon by the Very Rev. Jep StreitIhr habt nun Traurigkeit, from Requiem, Johannes Brahms; Jean Danton, Soprano, with The Cathedral Scholars, 2009PrayersThe Eyes of All, Jean Berger; The Cathedral Scholars, 2006ClosingKyrie Eleison, J.S. Bach: L’Ensemble Medical of Munich, Germany; Gundi Gabrielle, Director, with The Cathedral Scholars 2011God So Loved the World tagIhr habt nun Traurigkeit;aber ich will euch wiedersehenund euer Herz soll sich freuen,und eure Freude soll niemand von euch nehmen. Johannes 16:22Sehet mich an: Ich habe eine kleine ZeitMühe und Arbeit gehabtund habe großen Trost funden. Sirach 51:27Ich will euch trösten,wie einen seine Mutter tröstet. Jesaja 66:13And ye now therefore have sorrow:but I will see you again,and your heart shall rejoice,and your joy no man taketh from you. John 16:22Behold with your eyes, how that I havebut little labour,and have gotten unto me much rest. Sirach 51:27As one whom his mother comforts,so will I comfort you. Isaiah 66:13All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time-Born From Above | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 3.20.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralBe Still And Know That I Am God, Praxis Community; Arr. Ed Broms, The Crossing, 2009Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading:Excerpt from By Rachel CarsonCall to Remembrance, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars, 2007ReadingGospel: John, read by Colby Anderson, Trinity Church, ConcordSermon-Born From AbovePreached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey Hide Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant, Cathedral Scholars, 2007Prayers for the People of Japan Organ Improvisation on Birds of the Abyss, from Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen; Ed Broms, organ, 2008PrayersClosingChriste Eleison from Mass in B Minor, J. S. Bach; Ensemble L’Medical, Munich Germany, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, with The Cathedral Scholars, 2011All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Testing Jesus | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 3.11.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralBe Still And Know That I Am God, Praxis Community; Arr. Ed Broms, The Crossing, 2009Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading:Excerpt from Conjures of a Guilty Bystander By Thomas MertonThe rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperative in violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys his own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.Organ Improvisation, Ed Broms; and Call to Remembrance, Carson Cooman; The Cathedral Scholars, with Gergana Ralam, violin, and Ed Broms, organ, 2009ReadingGospel: Matthew 4:1-11 read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel, WakefieldPsalm 51, Ed Broms; The Cathedral Scholars, Soloists: Jamie Lynn Hart, Wayne Paul, Ed Broms, Katherine Growdon, Sara Bielanski, 2009SermonSermon preached by The Very Rev. Jep Streit: Testing JesusCantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure, Cathedral Scholars, 2008PrayersClosingKyrie from Mass in B Minor, J. S. Bach; Ensemble L’Medical, Munich Germany, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, with The Cathedral Scholars, 2011All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - God Outside the Box | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 3.6.2011A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal CathedralSteal Away tagImprovisation on “Steal Away”, Trad.; Ed Broms, Piano 2007Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading:The Star Market by Marie Howe The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday.An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkoutbreathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard andhawking into his hand. The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them:shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Markethad declared a day off for the able-bodied, and I had wandered inwith the rest of them—sour milk, bad meat—looking for cereal and spring water.Jesus must have been a saint, I said to myself, looking for my lost carin the parking lot later, stumbling among the people who would havebeen lowered into rooms by ropes, who would have creptout of caves or crawled from the corners of public baths on their handsand knees begging for mercy.If I touch only the hem of his garment, one woman thought,could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?Street Spirit, Radiohead, arr. By The New Boston Duo: Elizabeth Burke, violin; George Little, guitar. Lyrics can be found at: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/radiohead/streetspiritfadeout.htmlGospel: Matthew 17:1-9 read by Joanne Daley, Friend of the CathedralAlleluia tagSermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone: God Outside the Box4. Gloria in Excelsis and 5. Et in terra pax, Mass in B minor; J.S. Bach; L’Ensemble Medical of Munich Germany, Gundi Gabrielle, Director; with the Cathedral Scholars, 2011PrayersClosingWhen the Saints Go Marching In, Trad; arr. by The New Boston Duo: Elizabeth Burke, violin; George Little, guitarGod So Loved the World tagAll Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Serving Two Masters | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 2.27.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Steal Away tag Phos Hilaron (text below), James Woodman; Scholars 2009 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Excerpt from Dorothy Day, A Radical Devotion by Robert Coles In the spring of 1952, I was a medical student ready to abandon the idea of medicine. I showed up at the Catholic Worker soup kitchen on the Lower East Side in New York. I had decided to try to be of help, to do some volunteer work, and remembered hearing of this place. It was on that afternoon, almost thirty-five years ago, that I first met Dorothy Day. She was sitting at a table, talking with a woman who was, I quickly realized, quite drunk, yet determined to carry on a conversation. I found myself increasingly confused by what seemed to be an interminable, essentially absurd exchange taking place between the two middle-aged women. When would it end—the alcoholic ranting and the silent nodding, occasionally interrupted by a brief question, which only served, maddeningly, to wind up the already over talkative one rather than wind her down? Finally, silence fell upon the room. Dorothy Day asked the woman if she would mind an interruption. She got up and came over to me. She said, “Are you waiting to talk with one of us?” One of us: with those three words she had cut through layers of self-importance, a lifetime of bourgeois privilege, and scraped the hard bone of pride…With those three words, so quietly and politely spoken, she had indirectly told me what the Catholic Worker Movement is all about and what she herself was like. There would be other lessons, many just as hard to absorb and keep alive within myself. Dorothy Day was a most determined teacher, well aware that in those, like me, who came to learn from her, modesty and humility are poses difficult to sustain for long stretches of time. Bird’s Eye View, Jamie Lynn Hart; performed by Jamie Lynn Hart, http://www.jamielynnhart.com/ Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34 read by Matthew 6:24-34, St. Paul's, Brookline Cantares, from Poema en forma de canciones, Song Cycle by Joaquín Turina (1882-1949); Molly Jo Rivelli, soprano, with Ed Broms, piano, 2008 (text and translation below) Sermon preached by The Very Rev. Jep Streit: Serving Two Masters Nunc Dimittis, Karl Henning; Scholars 2008 (text and translation below) Oyeheya (Praise the Spirit), Byers/Beckwith; Patrice Williamson, soloist with The Cathedral Gospel Choir, 2009 Closing Histoires Naturelles (1906), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); Letitia Stevens, mezzo-soprano, with Bonnie Donham, piano 2011 Le Paon Le Grillon Le Cygne Le Martin-Pechur La Pintade Full text and translation can be found at: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=252 Bonus videos can be found at: http://www.afmm.org/ "HUDBA" for Solo Violinby Alois Habain quartertonesCathedral Church of St. PaulBoston, MA -- May 3, 2008Dan Auerbach, Violin"SONATA IN G" for Violin and Pianoby Johannes Brahmsin Vallotti tuningCathedral Church of St. PaulBoston, MA -- May 3, 2008Dan Auerbach, Violin -- Joshua Pierce, PianoNunc dimittis: Latin (Vulgate): Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace: Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum: Lumen ad revelationem gentium, et gloriam plebis tuae Israel. English (New Revised Standard Version, 1989): Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel. Phos Hilaron:O gracious Light,pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven,O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed! Now as we come to the setting of | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Nobody's Perfect | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 2.20.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Steal Away tag Jubilate Deo, Benjamin Britten; Scholars 2007 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Song of the Builders by Mary Oliver On a summer morningI sat downon a hillsideto think about God - a worthy pastime.Near me, I sawa single cricket;it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way.How great was its energy,how humble its effort.Let us hope it will always be like this,each of us going onin our inexplicable waysbuilding the universe. A Cosmic Prayer, Carson Cooman; Scholars 2008 Gospel: Matthew 5:38-48 read by Charlie Evett, All Saints', Brookline Alleluia tag Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Richard Shepherd; Scholars 2008 The Lord’s Prayer, Alfred Hay Malotte, arr. Ed Broms; Lori Dow, soloist 2008 Closing “Fantasy” Impromptu, Op. 66, Frederic Chopin/Chopin Fantasy in Blue, Tal Zilber; Tal Zilber, piano 2011 God So Loved the World tag All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - The Messiah Beer Test | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 2.13.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Steal away tag If Ye Love Me, Carson Cooman; Scholars, 2008 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading Ave Verum Corpus, William Byrd; Scholars, 2008 Gospel: Matthew 5:21-37read by Brett Donham, St. Paul's, Brookline Alleluia tag Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey Alleluia, Randall Thompson; Scholars, 2008 Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury and Brian May (Queen); arr. by Tal Zilber; Tal Zilber, piano, 2011 Closing O Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins; Cathedral Gospel Choir, Rebecca Muir, soloist; 2009 God So Loved the World tag AVE VERUM CORPUS, Latin Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine,[3] vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine, cuius latus perforatum fluxit aqua et sanguine:[4] esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.[5] O Iesu dulcis, O Iesu pie, O Iesu, fili Mariae. Miserere mei. Amen. A translation into English is: Hail, true Body, born of the Virgin Mary, who having truly suffered, was sacrificed on the cross for mankind, whose pierced side flowed with water and blood: May it be for us a foretaste [of the Heavenly banquet] in the trial of death. Oh dear Jesus, Oh merciful Jesus, Oh Jesus, son of Mary, have mercy on me. Amen. All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Rev. Rathbone | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 2.6.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Set Me As A Seal tag Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading Kyrie Chant, Trad. Arabic Gospel: Matthew 5:13-20 read by Ed Broms, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston Yes, Lord, Andrae Crouch; Scholars, 2007 Sermon preached by The Rev. Tina Rathbone Hope for Resolution, Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory; Scholars 2008 Closing Order My Steps; Glenn Burleigh, The Cathedral Gospel Choir, 2010 Drei Klavierstuke, Op. 11, Arnold Schoenberg; Christopher Lim, piano, 2010 God So Loved the World tag All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Was the Sermon on the Mount a Sermon? | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 1.30.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Steal Away tag Psalm 23, Woonyoung Na; Jin Hee Kim, violin; Mi Yeon Han, piano Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading Ubi Caritas, Maurice Durfle, Scholars 2007 Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 read by Suzette Phillips, St. John's, Taunton Alleluia in D tag Sermon preached by Dean Jep Streit: “Was the Sermon on the Mount a Sermon?” Bless the Lord, O My Soul, Karl Henning, Scholars 2008 Oyaheya (Praise the Spirit), Byers and Beckwith; Patrice Williamson, soloist, Gospel Choir 2008 Closing In the Barn, from Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, Charles Ives; Jin Hee Kim, violin; Mi Yeon Han, piano God So Loved the World tag All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 1.23.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Steal Away tag The Revival, Charles Ives; Yoonhee Lee, Violin and Christopher Lim, piano, 2011 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading We Shall Come Over, Artie Walser; Ed Broms Piano and Vocals, 2011 Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23 read by Pamela Pleasants, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston The Call, Leo Nestor; Cathedral Scholars 2006 Sermon preached by The Rev. Can. Steven Bonsey Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paullus; Cathedral Scholars 2007 Closing Order My Steps; Glenn Burleigh, The Cathedral Gospel Choir, 2010 God So Loved the World tag All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 1.16.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Come Sunday; Duke Ellington; Patrice Williamson, Vocals; Ed Broms, Piano, 2008 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading What is GOD? Excerpt from book by Jacob Needleman It does not matter whether we deny or affirm the existence of what the conventional world calls God. What really matters is only that we are deeply and authentically concerned with questions of ultimate reality and ultimate value. It only matters that we are called to try to be honest and deep and good in our thought and life. We may come to the conclusion, as did Freud and as do many others of us, that the world is laboring under illusions about God, and that these illusions are poisonous and dangerous to the life of man. That does not matter. What matters is this dual existence, this simultaneous existence in oneself of two natures, two nearly equal and honorable impulses: the love of Truth and the Good, and at the same time, the impulse to think critically, logically, and/or the impulse to behave effectively and under the rule of conscience in the world we live in and facing the people we are obliged, by all that is real, to help and care for. Jesus Is On the Wire; Thea Hopkins; Thea Hopkins, Guitar and Vocals, 2008 Gospel: John 1:29-42 read by Holiday Houck, Trinity, Boston Deep River; Paul Ayres; Scholars 2008 Sermon preached by The Very Rev. Jep Streit His Eye Is On the Sparrow; Martin, Gabriel, Arr. Lauryn Hill; Sara Richarson and Jamie Lynn Hart, Vocals; Ed Broms, Piano, 2007 Closing Glory, Glory; Hymn, 2007 Lyrics Come Sunday Oh dear Lord I´ve lovedGod almighty, God up abovePlease, look down and see my people throughI believe the sun and moonWill shine up in the skyWhen the day is greyIt´s just clouds passing byHe´ll give peace and comfortTo every troubled mindCome sunday, oh come sundayThat´s the dayOften we feel wearyBut he knows our every careGo to him in secretHe will hear every prayerThe leaves in the valleyThey neither toll nor spinAnd flowers bloom in springAnd birds singUp from dawn till sunsetMan work hard all the dayCome Sunday, oh come SundayThat´s the day +++++ Jesus Is On The Wire(Thea Hopkins) Run down churchRed clayRiver coveredIn a smoky hazeSunday morningThe fire is outSunday morningNo one aboutThe earth is softThis time of yearBoots get cakedFrom there to hereDown the roadRoute 25They found this boyHe was barely aliveJesus is on the wireSo far away, higher and higherJesus is on the wireThey took him downOff the fenceCold as iceAlmost deadThey said that heThat he slept with guysThey said that heDeserved to dieJesus is on the wireSo far away, higher and higherJesus is on the wire All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Rev. Rathbone | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 1.9.2011 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral I Wonder As I Wander, John Jacob Niles; Caroline Musica, Soprano; 2007 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Late Fragment by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. Epiphany Alleluias, John Weaver; Scholars; 2007 Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17 read by John Anderson, Trinity, Concord Deep River, tag; Caroline Musica Soprano; 2008 Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rahtbone A Spotless Rose, Herbert Howells; Scholars 2006 Closing The First Noel, arrangement by David Willcocks; 2008 All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Meditations on the Madonna | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 12.26.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral O Come All Ye Faithful Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: From Faith and Violence by Thomas Merton My own peculiar task in me Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety. In these depths there are no easy answers, no pat solutions to anything. It is a kind of submarine life in which faith sometimes mysteriously takes on the aspect of doubt when, in fact, one has to doubt and reject conventional and superstitious surrogated that have taken the place of faith. On this level, the division between Believer and Unbeliever ceases to be so crystal clear. It is not that some are all right and other are all wrong: all are bound to seek in honest perplexity. Every body is an Unbeliever more or less! Only when this fact is fully experiences, accepted and lived with, does one become fit to hear the simple message of the Gospel—or of any other religious teaching. Go Tell It, Kirk Franklin; The Cathedral Gospel Choir featuring Rebecca Muir; recorded at Syberdelix Studios, Mashpee, MA in August 2010 Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel, Wakefield Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars 2007 Sermon preached by The Rev. Can. Steven Bonsey: “Meditations on the Madonna.” O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen, Cathedral Scholars 2006 Latin text O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia. English translation O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord, lying in a manger! Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear Christ the Lord. Alleluia! Closing Joy to the World All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Saying "Yes" to God | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 12.19.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard There is one church here, so I go to it. On Sunday morning I quit the house and wander down the hill to the white frame church in the firs… The churchwomen all bring flowers for the altar; they haul in arrangements as big as hedges, of wayside herbs in season, and flowers from their gardens, huge blossoms and foliage as tall as I am, in vases the size of tubs, and the altar still looks empty, irredeemably linoleum, and beige. We had a wretched singer once, a guest from a Canadian congregation, a hulking blond girl with chopped hair and big shoulders, who wore tinted spectacles and a long, lacy dress, and sang, grinning, to faltering accompaniment, an entirely secular song about mountains. Nothing could hav been more apparent than that God loved this girl; nothing could more surely convince me of God’s unending mercy than the continued existence on earth of the church. The higher Christian churches—where, if anywhere, I belong—come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures to have dealings with God. I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed. In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute. This is the beginning of wisdom. We Wait For Thy Loving Kindness, O Lord; William McKie; Scholars 2008 Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11 read by Colby Anderson, Trinity, Concord Ave Dolcissima Maria, Julian Wachner; Scholars 2008 Ave, dulcissima Maria Text: Latin, 12th century Ave, dulcissima Maria. Vera spes et vita! Dulce refrigerium. O Maria, flos Virginum. Hail, sweetest Mary Hail, sweetest Mary. Fount of hope and life! Sweet refreshment. O Mary, Virgin flower. Sermon preached by The Very Rev. Jep Streit: “Saying ‘Yes’ to God.” Ev’n So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz; Scholars 2006 Closing All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - God Is... | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 12.12.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Take Me To the Water, Traditional; Arr. by Muir and Castellana; Rebecca Muir, soloist, with Mike Castellana, guitar 2010 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets and Witnesses for Our Time by Robert Ellsberg November 29, Dorothy Day, Co-Founder of the Catholic Worker (1879-1980) “Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one’s life for the sick, the maimed, the leper…But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?...Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?” I Look From Afar; Anthony Piccolo; Cathedral Scholars, 2008 Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11 read by David Evett, All Saints', Brookline Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone: “God Is…” Tota Pulchra Es; Maurice Durufle; Cathedral Scholars, 2009 Closing Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; Cesar Franck; Sarah Tocco, piano All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Preached by Dean Streit | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 12.5.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba, 1. Allegro; Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787); Brady Lanier, bass viola da gamba 2007 Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Poem by Addison Hall. Time to address you directly, friends, who’ve stayed by me through sun and misery: without you I’d have gone silent long since. For you I am glad to speak, and to speak on. I see your ears and your eyes, I lay my hands on your chests, I feel your hearts, my own allies. 11/19/10 Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; Arr. by Edward A. Broms; performed by the Cathedral Scholars, 2006 Gospel: Matthew 3:1-12 read by Cathy Torrey, Trinity, Weymouth Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba, 2. Adagio; Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787); Brady Lanier, bass viola da gamba 2007 Sermon preached by The Very Rev. John P. Streit For Every Mountain; Kurt Carr; Edward Barker, soloist; performed by the Gospel Choir 2010 Closing Adam Lay Ybounden; Carson Cooman Opus 576; performed by the Cathedral Scholars 2009 Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola da Gamba, 3. Allegro; Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787); Brady Lanier, bass viola da gamba 2007 All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - Christ the Thief in the Night | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 11.28.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Excerpt from Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith by Nora Gallagher. I came to this church five years ago as a tourist and ended up a pilgrim. What I wanted at the time I walked in the door for the late morning Mass was peace, I told myself. I believe I understood peace at the time as comfort. What I got was “The peace of God that passes all understanding,” as the prayer book says—or, as an old Irish hymn goes, “The peace of God—it is no peace.” For many of us, “returnees” of the boomer generation, the Church is both familiar and a foreign planet. To cope, we are often ambivalent. I never expected to be a leader in an, uh, institution. I keep looking away over my shoulder to find out if someone has guessed that I’m an imposter. I walk a sometimes amusing and sometimes scary tightrope between compromise and pushing for more change, or a better fit between me ad this Church. But if the Church hadn’t changed, I wouldn’t be here. The first time I saw a woman celebrate at the altar fundamentally changed my relationship to Church and to God. E’vn S Lord Jesus, Quickly Come; Paul Manz, performed by the Cathedral Scholars 2006 Sequenza VIIb for Soprano Saxophone by Luciano Berio, Performed by Dennis Schafer 2010 Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey: “Christ the Thief in the Night” Rorate Caeli; Setting by Leo Nestor, performed by the Cathedral Scholars 2006 Text: Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.Ne irascaris Domine, ne ultra memineris iniquitatis: ecce civitas Sancti facta est deserta: Sion deserta facta est: Jerusalem desolata est: domus sanctificationis tuae et gloriae tuae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri.Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.Peccavimus, et facti sumus tamquam immundus nos, et cecidimus quasi folium universi: et iniquitates nostrae quasi ventus abstulerunt nos: abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostrae.Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.Vide Domine afflictionem populi tui, et mitte quem missurus es: emitte Agnum dominatorem terrae, de Petra deserti ad montem filiae Sion: ut auferat ipse iugum captivitatis nostrae.Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.Consolamini, consolamini, popule meus: cito veniet salus tua: quare maerore consumeris, quia innovavit te dolor? Salvabo te, noli timere, ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, Sanctus Israel, Redemptor tuus.Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum. Translation: Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One. Be not angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity : behold the city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert. Jerusalem is desolate, the house of our holiness and of thy glory, where our fathers praised thee. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One. We have sinned, and we are become as one unclean, and we have all fallen as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us by the hand of our iniquity. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One. See, O Lord, the affliction of thy people, and send him whom thou hast promised to send. Send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth, from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion, that he himself may take off the yoke of our captivity. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One. Be comforted, be comforted, my people; thy salvation shall speedily come. Why wilt thou waste away in sadness? why hath sorrow seized thee? I w | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Time - When Change Feels Like Loss | St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 11.21.10 A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Welcome Extra-scriptural Reading: Excerpt from A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price Physicians, in their admirable Greek and Latin mode, speak of a “catastrophic” illness. The Greek word catastrophe means an overturning, an upending—a system disarranged past reassembly, all signals reversed. So disaster then, yes, for me for a while—great chunks of four years. Catastrophe surely, a literally upended life with all parts strewn and some of the most urgent parts lost for good, within and without. But if I were called on to value honestly my present life beside my past—the years from 1933 till ’84 against the years after—I’d have to say that, despite an enjoyable fifty-year start, these recent years since full catastrophe have gone still better. They’re brought more in and sent more out—more love and care, more knowledge and patience, more work in less time. How self-deluding, self-serving, is that? Why do physically damaged people so often meet the world with clear bright eyes and what seem unjustified or lunatic smiles? Have some few layers of our minds burned off, leaving us dulled to the shocks of life, the actual state of our devastation? Or are we merely displaying a normal animal pleasure in being at least alive and breathing, not outward bound to the dark unknown or anxious for some illusory safety, some guarantee we know to be ludicrous? Fairly late in the catastrophic phase of my illness, I began to understand two facts I’d known in theory since early childhood. 1) Generous people—true practical saints, some them boring as root canals—are waiting to give you everything on Earth but your main want, which is simply the person you used to be. 2) But you’re not that person now. Who’ll you be tomorrow? And what do you propose to be from here to the grave, which may be hours or decades down the road? Anthem: I Sat Down, Edward Bairstow, performed by the Cathedral Scholars, 2010 Psalm 119 vs. 97-104, Gospel Choir, Brandon Allen, Aubrey Johnson, Rebecca Muir, Jamie Urquhart soloists, 2010 Gospel: Luke 23:33-43 read by Marianne Evett, All Saints', Brookline Sermon preached by The Very Rev. Jep Streit: “When Change Feels Like Loss” Always and Forever by Pat Metheny, Aubrey Johnson soloist, with Ed Broms, piano, 2010 Closing by Dean Jep Streit Refraction and Reflection for Marimba by Daniel T. Lewis (b. 1986), performed by Marimbist Matt Sharrock, 2010 All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted. | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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