WORSHIP MUSIC & more

Eucharist: using a 1600 year-old prayer

Deviating from our usual format for the Great Thanksgiving and Eucharistic Prayer – adapted from St. John Chrysostom, 349-47 AD

song by Dobri Hristov (1875-1941): Bulgaria sung by the choir chosen to accompany the ecumenical prayer cycle.

Selected for the ecumenical prayer cycle this Easter.

The driftwood became a cross – the cross bears new life – becomes our tree and blossoms in front of the altar on Easter Sunday.

Saturday Easter Vigil, 2018 Gospel of John (20:1-18

2018 Saturday Easter Vigil Joint German and English-speaking congregations.

For the Easter Vigil, 2018 a song from Hungary, arranged for choir by Terry MacArthur.

Good Friday invitation to prayer and “By the bird” (Chile) Choir of the congregation, guitar: Bismark Sitorus, accordion: Terry MacArthur

For Good Friday – Bach prelude – organ: Regine Kummer

On Palm Sunday we sing this traditional hymn – waving palm leaf crosses as Jesus triumphantly enters Jerusalem.

Great Thanksgiving and Eucharist Sanctus and Agnus Dei are from Missa No. 3 by Urmas Sisask: Estonia

Püha, püha, püha on Issand Choir: Missa No.3 Urmas Sisask: Estonia (see also cathedral June 2015)

Japanese song with music by Ushio Takahashi “When a grain of wheat, into the ground has fallen . . . .”