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For those of you who doing worship planning for Palm Sunday, here are a few songs you may find useful, free to download and free to use:
One of my favourite psalms of lament is Psalm 130, which appears in the lectionary texts this week. So why not sing it and embrace the ancient tradition of lament? Here are two versions of the opening words of the psalm, a simple round and a longer, more harmonically complex choral version.
We have two songs to accompany the lections this week, a lively gospel-flavoured song based on Ephesians 5:14 and a gentle setting of the final verse of Psalm 23. Enjoy!
“Sing out loud to the rock of our salvation!” Psalm 95, the lectionary psalm for this week, begins with such joyful praise that it cries out to be sung with abandon. Here’s a jubilant, reggae-flavoured song from our last album, This is the Day, which will help you get in the spirit of the psalm. So crank up the volume and play our mp3 recording, and sing along!
Cheryl’s mom, Helen, died on March 3, after a slow and steady decline over the past few years, hastened in the end by a ten-month battle with oral cancer. She lived a long and full life, one filled with much love and happiness, good food and friends, and we miss her dearly, just as we still miss Cheryl’s dad, Milt, who died in 1994. And so for us, Lent started a bit early this year, and the Lenten journey has been filled with sadness and busyness as we clear out mom’s apartment and prepare for a celebration of her life this Saturday, March 26.
Yesterday as I was preparing for this week’s community worship at VST, a new setting of the ancient prayer of the church, Kyrie Eleison, sung itself into my heart, so I quickly notated it and we introduced it to the VST choir. We’ll sing it tomorrow in worship, and we offer it to you to accompany your Lenten journey:
May you be filled with peace during this poignant season, as we wait in hope for the resurrection to come. And please keep us in your prayers as we walk this journey of life and death and life beyond death.