Create in me a clean heart

The First Sunday in Lent
March 10, 2019

Today is the First Sunday in Lent, a season of penitence and reflection as we journey toward the events of Holy Week and Easter. Our liturgy and music changes as we begin this new season; read about the specific details here: Our Lenten Journey Begins

 Consider how exploring our liturgy and music can help you observe a holy Lent and enrich your spiritual life. Here are a few avenues you might consider:
  • Attend one of the special worship opportunities offered during the season, such as Choral Evensong, Compline, or Stations of the Cross. View details here.
  • Read our Canon's Bookshelf book selection - Living Lent: Meditations for These Forty Days (available in our Cathedral Shoppe). It contains short daily reflections on the music and poetry of Lenten hymns.
  • Choose one of our Lenten hymns each week for further study and reflection. Hymnary.org is a useful resource.
  • Listen to the Songs in the Desert podcast, which offers a short reflection on a hymn each weekday in Lent.
  • Worship at one of our weekday liturgies. Here is the worship schedule.
Rather than "giving something up" this Lent, think about taking something on - one of the above suggestions, or another of you own choosing. Let this Lenten season be a time of spiritual growth and renewal.

Music for the First Sunday in Lent
March 10, 2019

Hymns
150   Forty days and forty nights (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich)
143 (stanza 5)  The glory of these forty days (Erhalt uns, Herr)
641   Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell)
147   Now let us all with one accord (Bourbon)
149   Eternal Lord of love, behold your Church (Old 124th)

Service Music
The Great Litany (chanted in procession), S-67
Kyrie eleison, S-96   Franz Peter Schubert, arr. Richard Proulx
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16   Plainsong, Tone IV
Sanctus, S-130   Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei, S-164   Schubert/Proulx

Anthem
O God, Create In Me A Clean Heart   Howard Helvey

Organ Music
Chorale preludes on Erhalt uns, Herr
Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Walther


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