Sunday Drive: Choral High Mass from St. Mark's Episcopal, Philadelphia

Your Head Trucker hasn't been to church in a very long while - for good reasons -  and is not a high churchman; but sometimes a service of bells and smells can be refreshing to the soul.  At least I can make a spiritual communion online, and listen to a good sermon.  

BTW - Psalm 37 is particularly apropos in today's world.

Video description:

Choral High Mass on the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon by Mother Nora Johnson

The music for the Mass is:

    Missa Octavi Toni – Orlande de Lassus (1532 - 1594)

    O Lord, Increase Our Faith – Henry Loosemore (? -1670)

    Love Bade Me Welcome – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The service leaflet (PDF) for today's service is found here.

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Sunday Drive: Early Morning Rain

I did not know till recently that this classic Peter, Paul and Mary tune was written by Gordon Lightfoot.

We had several gloomy, overcast days in a row this week, punctuated by downpours. But this morning it's bright and sunny outside, though just above freezing.

Bonus:  "The Amplitude of Love," a different kind of Christmas sermon, by the Rev. Sean Mullen at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

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