For this week’s installment of Comfort at One’s Virtual Wednesday, the St. Paul’s Chapel Choir has shared an at-home performance of Litany to the Holy Spirit by Peter Hurford directed by Associate Organist Janet Yieh.
Guest artists conductor Benjamin Nicholas and the Choir of Merton College join The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY in the North American Premiere of Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Comfort at One today includes Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8 in which we hear “teach me to resign my spirit with a well-composed courage,” alongside Telemann’s Concerto in E minor for Flute and Recorder, TWV 52:e1.
The Liturgy of Palm Sunday with the Blessing of the Palms, the Passion Gospel according to Mark improvised by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Holy Communion, hymns, and music. The Rev. Michael A. Bird preaches.
Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. September 30, 2018: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina- Loquebantur variis linguis
We may celebrate Palm Sunday as the triumphant return of Jesus to Jerusalem, but the liturgy also contains the Passion; a story full of pain, despair, and utter heartbreak.
Even with the discrimination that he encountered within the agency, Jose Gonzalez credits NYCHA’s pilot as the key to helping him navigate reentry and maintain steady housing.
