Love
On the last Sunday of Advent, we light the Love candle. Hope, Peace, Joy, Love. I’m not sure why that’s the order, nor do I know when this tradition started.…
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Joy!
On the third Sunday in Advent, we light the joy candle, and to mark its set-apartness from the other candles, it’s pink. Advent is one of the penitential liturgical seasons…
Hope
I love Advent. I love Advent music. I love Advent choral, organ, everything music. There are too many wonderful hymns for me to possibly share all the ones that give…
Now Thank We All Our God
1 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom his world rejoices; who from our mothers’ arms has blessed…
Abide With Me
Abide with me, fast falls the eventide,
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
O Day of Peace
Our hymn this week is about longing for peace in our broken world. The inspiration came to me quite unexpectedly on Friday. I had spent all week not feeling much…
Naega sanŭl hyanghayŏ (To the Hills I Lift My Eyes)
Our hymn this week is a setting of Psalm 121 by the Korean poet Song-suk Im (b. 1933). It was set to music by Song-chun Lee. The psalm is a…
Vacation
Actually, not really, we’ve been moving and settling into a new house! It’s exciting, but exhausting and does not really count for ‘vacation time’. During this time of the Covid-19…
All God’s Children Sing 