February 17, 2021 | Ash Wednesday
Channel: St. Paul's Burlingame
Date: 2021-02-17

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 Ash Wednesday can be downloaded here: https://14d07cb2-dc6d-4751-ab55-4f14b5a88222.usrfiles.com/ugd/14d07c_cd2684c014364571b2f46397343e3fd5.pdf

Timing:
Welcome and Lent Introduction: 0:00
Kyrie eleison (Hildegard von Bingen): 3:39
Opening Prayer: 4:46
Hymn 149, Eternal Lord of love: 5:54
The First Lesson, Isaiah 58: 1-12:  8:44 
Psalm 103 (Patricia Van Ness): 11:47
The Second Lesson, 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10: 15:10
The Sermon: 18:05
The Blessing and imposition of ashes: 26:13
Anthem, Come Renew Us (Eleanor Daley): 29:35
Examen/Litany of Penitence: 34:20
Hymn, We Shall Overcome: 38:09
Postlude, Chanson Triste (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky): 42:06
    
Copyright Acknowledgements
Music streamed under OneLicense.net  # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use

MUSIC NOTE
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~Matthew 6:21

On this first day of Lent, we begin with chant from 12th -century Germany, Kyrie eleison (“Lord, have mercy”), by composer, poetess, and mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). The founder and first abbess of the Benedictine community at Bingen, Hildegard corresponded with popes,
emperors, kings, and archbishops. In the unique compositional style of her chant Hildegard
abandons the formal patterns of Gregorian chant, noting that they were composed to best suit a
women’s voice.

We continue a collaboration with Maine musician Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951) as St. Paul’s
composer-in-residence. Composer, violinist, and poet Patricia Van Ness draws upon elements of
Medieval and Renaissance music and has been dubbed a modern-day Hildegard von Bingen. Her
music and poetry explore glimpsing the divine through beauty and have been sung throughout the
world, including by Chanticleer (USA) and The King’s Singers (UK). Her current project is to set all
150 Psalms to music (www.patriciavanness.com/genre/psalms). Psalm 103, I bless you, with all that is within me, was dedicated to the memory of her husband, Peter, and premiered virtually by the Choir of St. Paul’s in May 2020. Gabriel Lim was the audio and video engineer. Look for the separate YouTube playlist highlighting music by Patricia Van Ness recorded by the Choir of St. Paul’s at www.youtube.com/SusanJaneMatthews.

Come, renew us (2011) is by the Toronto composer and church musician Eleanor Daley (b. 1955),
setting a poem of the English priest David Adam (1936-2020). Director of Music at Fairlawn
Heights United Church in Toronto since 1982, Eleanor Daley has created a thriving choral program
there for which much of her choral music has been composed, though this evocative a cappella
setting was commissioned in 2011 for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through this
song, we pray to open our hearts to be renewed in the joy, peace, hope, light, strength and love of
God.

The closing voluntary, Chanson Triste (Sad Song) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is played in a
transcription for cello by 11-year old Haruka Ota, a chorister in the St. Paul’s Choir School.