Preachers tend to dread Trinity Sunday because of its tendency to get bogged down in theological dogma. However, choirs like it because they get to sing “Holy, holy, holy,” a perennial favorite hymn, and the wonderful, though lengthy, “I bind unto [Read more...]
Today, in celebration of Whitsunday, the Day of Pentecost, and in recognition of our Choral Scholars’ last official service this program year, Calvary Choir presents a Special Choral Eucharist, our first since before COVID. In place of the usual, [Read more...]
The Sunday After Ascension Day is one of two days in the church year (the other being Christ the King, the last Sunday of the year) when we envision Christ in sitting in regal splendor upon the Throne of Heaven. This is in stark contrast to the [Read more...]
Today we reflect on Jesus' words to Thomas, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." We sing Ralph Vaughan Williams' iconic hymn, The Call, from Five Mystical Songs, "Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life." Our anthem, Ego dilecta meo, by Ivan Moody, [Read more...]
The Fourth Sunday of Easter is known as Good Shepherd Sunday in consideration of the lections for the day, which include the image of Christ the Good Shepherd and the Twenty-third Psalm. Perhaps the world’s best known and most loved psalm, three [Read more...]
On Maundy Thursday we celebrate the establishment of the Holy Eucharist at Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples and his “mandate” that we love one another. The word, “maundy,” likely comes from the Latin, Mandatum novum do vobis, “I give you a new [Read more...]