January 10, 2021 | The Baptism of our Lord
Channel: St. Paul's Burlingame
Date: 09/01/2021

PrayingTogether @ St. Paul's means deepening relationships while physically distant. We decided to take our weekly appointed readings and selected music online. Pray this Online Service here, together. Videos and bulletins (to follow the service) will be posted every Saturday by 4pm. To learn more, go to www.stpaulsburlingame.org.

The bulletin for the Baptism of the Lord can be downloaded here: https://23ecd0ac-7ff5-4372-8dc0-3de64f57a0a6.filesusr.com/ugd/14d07c_5848410416bf4993a73b4879fbd46299.pdf

Timing:
Welcome: 0:00
Opening Acclamation: 0:25
Hymn, Down to the River to Pray: 0:34     
Collect for the Day: 3:$5
The First Lesson, Acts 19:1-7: 4:37
Psalm 29: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11: 5:31
The Holy Gospel, Matthew 1: 4-11: 6:59
The Sermon: 8:21
Anthem, Take me to the water: 21:50
The Prayers of the People: 25:55
The Lord’s Prayer: 29:27
Announcements: 30:09
Hymn 370, I bind unto myself today: 33:07        
The Blessing and Dismissal: 37:36
Postlude, Minuets 1 and 2, BWV 1007 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Haruka Ota, cello: 38:20    

Copyright Acknowledgements
Music streamed under OneLicense.net  # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use

MUSIC NOTE by Susan Jane Matthews, Director of Music

On this First Sunday after the Epiphany, we celebrate The Baptism of our LORD with two spirituals that are songs of the water of life. The opening hymn, “Down in the river to pray,” is arranged by David L. Mennicke, Director of Choral Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota since 1989. This recording is from the Choir School Concert on March 7, 2020 which highlighted music in films, this spiritual made famous by the 2000 Coen brothers movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

At the anthem, a quartet from the Choir of St. Paul’s sings the spiritual “Take me to the water” in an arrangement by Alice Parker (b. 1925), with countertenor soloist Joey Blundell, a Choir School alumni. An October 2020 documentary, “At Home with Alice Parker,” is a wonderful glimpse into the life’s work of this legendary New England composer, conductor and teacher: https://youtu.be/lxo9vuuOIcE. Alice Parker has composed hundreds of original works including operas, choral suites, song cycles, cantatas, anthems and hymns and nearly 200 arrangements of folksongs, hymns and spirituals with the American conductor Robert Shaw (1916-1999).

The service closes with Minuets for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) played by Haruka Ota, an 11-year old Chorister in the St. Paul’s Choir School.