March 14, 2021 | The Fourth Sunday in Lent
Channel: St. Paul's Burlingame
Date: 2021-03-13

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 Fourth Sunday in Lent can be downloaded here: https://23ecd0ac-7ff5-4372-8dc0-3de64f57a0a6.filesusr.com/ugd/14d07c_e1075f2b023f4089a1d96e800235ac69.pdf

Timing:
Welcome: 0:04
Chant, Kyrie eleison (Hildegard of Bingen): 0:30
The Confession: 2:15
Hymn 489, The great Creator of the worlds: 3:06
Opening Prayer: 5:48
The First Lesson, Numbers 21 :4-9: 6:42
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 (Patricia Van Ness): 8:24
The Gospel Lesson, John 3: 14-21: 10:26
The Sermon: 12:42
Time with The Examen: 25:54
Anthem, What wondrous love is this (Alice Parker): 32:52
The Prayers of the People: 37:35
The Lord’s Prayer: 41:14
Hymn 490, I want to walk as a child of the light (Kathleen Thomerson): 41:58
The Blessing and Dismissal: 45:11
Postlude, Spring Intermezzo (Betty Jackson King): 45:51

    
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 Fourth Sunday in Lent, in celebration of Women’s History Month, we continue to join in music and poetry with a great host of women who bring the glad tidings. Two women composers are highlighted here:

The anthem for this Fourth Sunday in Lent is an arrangement of the shape-note hymn “Wondrous Love” (Hymn 439), by two legendary American choral conductors of the twentieth century, Robert Shaw (1916-1999) and ALICE PARKER (b. 1925). 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 Robert Shaw.

Born and raised in a musical family in Chicago, BETTY JACKSON KING (1928-1994) studied there at Roosevelt University, and taught music throughout her life in the Wildwood, New Jersey public schools. She was President of the National Association of Negro Musicians from 1979 to 1984. A prolific composer, she established probably the first of the women composer’s self-publishing companies, Jacksonian Press. Spring Intermezzo is from Four Seasonal Sketches, composed in 1955 and dedicated to Dr. Geneva Handy Southall. Geneva Handy Southall, Betty Jackson King, Florence Price and Margaret Bonds were all part of a supportive community for one another in Chicago, referred to as the Black Chicago Renaissance Women.