Just as in our Gospel reading, the process of opening to the mystery is multi-sensory and multi-emotional, which is how we will witness Jesus’ presence in these next weeks and years and millennia to come.
After his Requiem was premiered in 1868, Brahms later added a movement for solo soprano “I will comfort you as one whom his own mother comforteth.” This epic work that is now known as piece of hope and solace was performed on the finale of the Time’s Arrow Festival: Webern.
This may be Bach’s most quintessentially Trinitarian cantatas. With references to the Trinity throughout the form, rhythm, structure, and text, Bach's Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7 is performed alongside Heinichen’s Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore, S. 228, featuring Gonzalo Ruiz.
Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. September 23, 2018: Orlando di Lasso - Ad te levavi animam meam
Every year about this time, discussions start about how Christians understand Easter, specifically the literal resurrection of Jesus. "Everyone is wrong,” preaches the Rev. Winnie Varghese.
We continue our Eastertide journey with a reminder about ways to experience the Holy Spirit and celebrate the resurrected Christ: through storytelling and our breath.
