This Sunday's Service
This Sunday is known as
Palm Sunday. It is the day we celebrate Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem at the
beginning of the celebration of Passover. As we know, the shouts of "Hosanna"
were soon drowned out by shouts of "crucify him." How do we go from joy to
sorrow and then back to joy? I guess the answer would be scriptural: "for people
it is impossible, but with God all things are possible." We celebrate the
triumphant arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem, but then we follow the events of the
upcoming week, all the way through Good Friday. Come and meditate on the God
with whom all things are possible, and prepare for the rebirth of Easter.
This Palm Sunday we will
have a wonderfully music filled service. We will begin with a prelude from
organist Gavin D. Craig, O Lamm Gottes unschuldig,
BWV 656 by J.S. Bach. Our children's choirs (Joyful Noise and JNITs - Joyful
Noise In Training), led by Anne Amador and Elizabeth Hale, will sing Hosanna
to the Lord by Becki Slagle Mayo. The Meeting House Choir will also
be singing. Their selections are Procession and Hymn for Palm Sunday
setting by Craig Courtney, and When Jesus Wept arranged by Linda
Spevacek. The congregation will get to sing a wide variety of hymns this week:
All Glory Laud and Honor (ST.
THEODULPH), Christ at the Table with His Friends (MAUNDY THURSDAY), Go to Dark Gethsemane
(REDHEAD NO. 76), Ah Holy Jesus
(HERZLIEBSTER JESU), O Sacred Head Now
Wounded (PASSION CHORALE), and What
Wondrous Love is This (WONDROUS LOVE).
Gavin will complete our musical offerings with the postlude Improvisation on
Hosanna Filio David.
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