Join us for monthly sessions via Zoom as we share musical offerings, prayers, and devotional time. Worship documents can be accessed anytime for use in personal reflection and devotion.
Our next session is Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm.
French Sacred Music
Using the concepts of consonance and dissonance, we offer reflection through music and prayer through the work of the Taizé Community.
Music & Meditation in 2020:
Hildegard von Bingen
May’s Music & Meditation session led us through an Ascension-tide exploration of contemplative prayer and the writings of medieval musician and physician Hildegard von Bingen.
“O eternal Lord, it is pleasing to you to burn in that same fire of love, like that from which our bodies are born, and from which you begot your Son in the first dawn before all of Creation. So consider this need which falls upon us, and relieve us of it for the sake of your Son, and lead us in joyous prosperity. ”
Fanny Crosby
In June’s Music & Meditation session we responded to racial and medical conflict in our nation using the words of the hymn, “Blessed Assurance.”
“Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast, there by His love o’ershaded, sweetly my soul shall rest. Hark! ‘tis the voice of angels, borne in a song to me, over the fields of glory, over the jasper sea. Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast, there by His love o’ershaded, sweetly my soul shall rest.”
Julian of Norwich
July’s Music & Meditation featured a collect and prayers from Julian of Norwich, who was able to see the multi-faceted and multi-gendered ways of God.
“God, of your goodness, give me yourself, for you are sufficient for me.
I cannot properly ask anything less, to be worthy of you.
If I were to ask anything less I should always be in want,
for in you alone do I have all.
Amen.”
Music of Resistance
We explore the power of music as a vehicle for resistance, social justice change, and ultimately healing transformation in August.
“Stir us, O Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture into wider seas, where storms show Thy mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars.”
All are welcome
Join us for our next session, on June 29, 2021 at 7:00 pm.