Living Water

UPDATE: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all public worship in the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska has been suspended for several weeks. This post was written prior to the cancellation of our Sunday Eucharist. However, you can still read the post and listen to the recording. I hope that it will provide strength and comfort in these trying times. Praying Twice will return when we resume our regular schedule.                                                                                            -Marty Wheeler Burnett

 The Third Sunday in Lent
March 15, 2020
Psalm 42, 15th century illuminated manuscript

 Today's readings focus on themes of water, thirst, and Jesus, the living water. Our anthem, "As panting deer," is a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 42:1-2 by Carl P. Daw, Jr. which touches on these themes:

As panting deer desire the waterbrooks
when wandering in a dry and desert place, 
so yearns my thirsty soul for you, O God,
and longs at last to see you face to face.

The composer of the music is David Ashley White, a Texas composer whose work was featured at Trinity Cathedral this fall. Read more about him in a previous blog post: David Ashley White. Hear a recording of this text sung as a hymn: As panting deer

Our Schola Cantorum will sing an anthem arrangement of this lovely hymn. 
Music for the Third Sunday in Lent
March 15, 2020

 Hymns
152   Kind maker of the world, O hear (A la venue de Noël) 
455   O Love of God, how strong and true (Dunedin)
143, stanza 5   The glory of these forty days (Erhalt uns, Herr)
343   Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless (St. Agnes)
676   There is a balm in Gilead (Balm in Gilead)
495   Hail, thou once despised Jesus (In Babilone)
Service Music

Kyrie eleison S-96     Franz Peter Schubert, arr. Richard Proulx

Psalm 95     Plainsong, Tone II
Sanctus S-130     Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei S-164     Schubert/Proulx

Anthem
As Panting Deer     David Ashley White

Organ Voluntaries
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor     Johann Sebastian Bach









         

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