This Sunday+
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164: St. Jerome (Lion)
The Third Sunday in Lent
Sunday, March 23
8 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite I
9 AM — Outdoor Holy Eucharist Rite II
9-11 AM — Child Care
10 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite II & Live Stream (with choir)
10 AM — Church School
11 AM — World’s Greatest Coffee Hour
5 PM — Indoor Holy Eucharist
Special Announcements
Easter Day Coffee Hours
Join in the fun and fellowship of offering festive hospitality at Easter Day coffee hours by bringing finger foods, or taking a turn at hosting, set up or clean up. Kindly bring your savory or sweet offering fully prepared and plated to be served at room temperature. Sign up online or call the church office to sign up for one of these shifts:
• Early host (8-10:30AM)
• Late host (10:15AM-12:45PM)
• A short serving/clean up shift (8-9AM, 10-11AM or 12-1:15PM).
Thank you for helping to offer Easter joy to all!
138: Dialogue between Faith and Science (Maltese Cross and Atom)
Sunday’s Music
Sunday, March 23
Our Opening and Closing Organ Voluntaries are the two movements of Bach’s great Fantasia and Fugue, C minor, composed in 1723. This work is more restrained, even perhaps somber, compared to his other works of the same name or genre: the Fantasia is not unlike in feeling to movements of his great settings of the Passion of Our Lord (St. John and St. Matthew), but is unlike its counterparts in that there is no flourish, no virtuosic passages. The Fugue is in strict Bachian “counterpoint” (fugal writing according to his rules), but he manages to hold our attention from start to finish. The text of our Communion Anthem, Sometimes a light surprises, appears in our Hymnal at No. 667, but with a different tune. In researching this text I found versions of it set to a traditional Irish folk tune, one normally associated with the text “Down by the salley gardens,” and have adapted it for our Choir and Choristers with this melody.
