Music Notes from Denise, May 18, 2024
This Sunday we will celebrate the Day of Pentecost with a focus on the Holy Spirit. Our processional will be illuminated by waving silk...
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Music Notes from Denise, May 11, 2024
This Sunday will be the seventh Sunday of Easter when we also celebrate the Ascension of Jesus Christ. I took this photo of a painting of...
May 43 min read
Music Notes from Denise, May 4, 2024
This Sunday will be the sixth Sunday of Easter when we read in John 15 the words of Jesus: “This is my commandment, that you love one...
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Music Notes from Denise, April 27, 2024
This Sunday will be the fifth Sunday of Easter when we continue to read about Jesus’ teaching with his disciples. In John 15, he says...
Apr 133 min read
Music Notes from Denise, April 13, 2024
This Sunday will be the third Sunday of Easter when we read about Jesus dining with his disciples in Luke 24. I notice many TV shows and...
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Music Notes from Denise, April 6, 2024
This Sunday will be the Second Sunday of Easter when we read about Jesus joining the disciples who are hiding in fear in a locked room...
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Music Notes from Denise, March 23, 2024
This Sunday we will begin our Holy Week journey waving palm branches in a processional and singing All Glory Laud and Honor, with...
Mar 163 min read
Music Notes from Denise, March 16, 2024
This Sunday, you will have a guest musician directing the choir and playing the piano for our worship the next two weeks. I would like to...
Mar 103 min read
Music Notes from Denise, March 9, 2024
This Sunday we will celebrate Women Composers Sunday and our prelude and hymns are composed by women musicians. For centuries, women were...
Mar 23 min read
Music Notes from Denise, March 2, 2024
This Sunday we will read the ten commandments in Exodus 20 and extol the glory of God with Psalm 19. Our new testament readings will...
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Music Notes from Denise, February 24, 2024
This Sunday is the second Sunday of Lent when we read about Abraham and Sarah’s story in Genesis 17 about becoming the ancestor of...
Feb 163 min read
Music Notes from Denise, February 17, 2024
This Sunday will be the first Sunday of the Lenten season and we are bringing back a new Kyrie that will be sung over the next 6 Sundays....
Feb 93 min read
Music Notes from Denise, February 10, 2024
This Sunday will be the final Sunday in the Epiphany season before we begin the Season of LENT. St. Martin’s Hand Bell Choir will reprise...
Feb 33 min read
Music Notes from Denise, February 3, 2024
This Sunday we are observing Scout Sunday and honoring our own Scout Troop 601 that meets here on our St. Martin’s campus. The troop has...
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Music Notes from Denise, January 27, 2024
This Sunday will be our Annual Meeting of St. Martin’s church. In our Gospel reading in Mark we find Jesus teaching and healing in the...
Jan 273 min read
Music Notes from Denise, January 13, 2024
This Sunday we begin to learn about the journey of Jesus after his baptism. Our Processional hymn is How bright appears the Morning Star,...
Jan 202 min read
Music Notes from Denise, January 20, 2024
This Sunday we follow Jesus as he calls common fisher folk to be his disciples in Mark 1:14-20. We begin with a hymn of praise to...
Jan 63 min read
Music Notes from Denise, January 6, 2024
This Sunday we will celebrate the Feast of Epiphany when we read about the three “wise” visitors who come to visit the infant Jesus in...
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Music Notes from Denise, December 23, 2023
This Sunday has multiple purposes. First, we will conclude our season of Advent in the morning with lighting the 4 Advent candle and...
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Music Notes from Denise, December 16, 2023
Carol 1 Adam lay yBounden is an early English song that dates to the 15 century, circa 1400. The poem is based on the Genesis story of...
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