March 7, 2021 | The 3rd Sunday in Lent
Channel: St. Paul's Burlingame
Date: 2021-03-06

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 Third Sunday in Lent can be downloaded here: https://23ecd0ac-7ff5-4372-8dc0-3de64f57a0a6.filesusr.com/ugd/14d07c_49442796333c41b2b493187eaff8e391.pdf

Timing:
Welcome: 0:00
Chant, Kyrie eleison, Hildegard of Bingen: 1:07
The Confession: 2:52
Hymn, God the sculptor of the mountains: 3:51
Opening Collect: 6:10
The First Lesson, Exodus 20: 1-17: 7:05 
Psalm 68: 11b, Patricia Van Ness: 10:08
The Gospel Lesson, John 2: 13-22 : 13:44
The Sermon: 15:10
Anthem, Agnus Dei, Elizabeth Kimble: 30:30
The Prayers of the People: 32:10
The Lord’s Prayer: 35:36
Hymn 550, Jesus calls us: 
The Blessing and Dismissal: 38:45
Postlude, The Tree of Peace, Judith Weir: 39:28
    
Copyright Acknowledgements
Music streamed under OneLicense.net  # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use. 

Video excerpts: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9zmW3g45xc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabIfOsTArc

MUSIC NOTE by Susan Jane Matthews, Director of Music 

A great host of women bring the glad tidings. ~Psalm 68:11b

On this Third Sunday in Lent, in celebration of Women’s History Month, we continue to join in music and poetry with the great host of women who bring the glad tidings.

St. Paul’s continues a collaboration with Maine musician Patricia Van Ness (b. 1951) as virtual 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 (1098- 1179). Her works 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). The Choir of St. Paul’s has premiered four of her psalm settings to date, and a fifth on Psalm 51 has been recorded for The Fifth Sunday in Lent. This recording of A Great Host (Psalm 68:11b) was premiered at the service for International Women’s Day, the last service held inside St. Paul’s in 2020. Patricia Van Ness’s translation of this psalm in turn inspired the name of A Great Host of Women Composers database, an ongoing collection of sacred music by women composers for the three-year lectionary (https://tinyurl.com/y52oemcy).

The mesmerizing Agnus Dei sung as the anthem is by Elizabeth Kimble (b. 1986), St. Paul’s soprano section leader and now also audio and video engineer. She composed both a Sanctus and Agnus Dei for the Choir of St. Paul’s in early 2020, the Sanctus the first virtual choir offering by the Choir of St. Paul’s on Palm Sunday 2020 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6HK9VL3DA). She will be composing a Gloria in time for the Choir of St. Paul’s residency at Wells Cathedral in July 2022. The closing voluntary for organ, The Tree of Peace, is by the contemporary English composer Judith Weir (b. 1954), Master of the Queen’s Music.