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Sunday’s Gospel tells the story of the Annunciation.  With that in mind, here is Chanticleer singing Franz Biebl’s beautiful Ave Maria.  This is really a setting of the Angelus prayer, with the last part of the Ave Maria (Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, hora pro nobis peccatoribus . . .) added at the end.
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Everyone needs to go read this right now.  If you don’t have time right now, come back when you have time.  Read it.  Digest it.  It’s really, really good, and really, really needed.
It’s what I’ve been trying to say for years now, but never as well as this.
Go read it and ponder these things in [...]

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Today is the last Sunday in the Church Year, called Christ the King Sunday.  For many Christians, this Sunday gets lost in the hectic run-up to what the retailers call “the holiday shopping season,” but we dare not miss Christ the King Sunday!  The doctrine of Christ the King is absolutely essential not only to [...]

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Don’t you love that old song by the Zombies?  But that’s not what I’m talking about.
It’s the changing of the season that is right in front of us.
Not fall to winter.
Not fall to “holiday season.”
Not fall to “Christmas shopping season” or “holiday shopping season” or any kind of “shopping season.”  Why would we want any [...]

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Look there! the Christ, our Brother, comes
resplendent from the gallows tree
and what he brings in his hurt hands
is life on life for you and me.
Refrain:
Joy! joy! joy to the heart all in this good day’s dawning.
Joy! joy! joy to the heart all in this good day’s dawning.
Good Jesus Christ inside his pain
looked down Golgotha’s [...]

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The last few posts about Easter Sunday, Easter hymnody, and the Easter season may have raised some questions in the minds of some Reformed readers.? Questions such as “Is the Church Year ‘Reformed’?” and “What about the ‘Regulative Principle’?”
I addressed this not too long ago in this post.
Jeff Meyers this week has done a good [...]

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First we talked about fourteen Easter hymns (in Part I). Then we covered a bunch of hymns for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, which is Good Shepherd Sunday (in Part II). If you do three hymns a week, you still need four more. If you do four a week, then you need [...]

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(This is Part II of a three-part series.  Part I can be found here and Part III can be found here.)
Since there are seven Sundays in Easter, that means we need a minimum of twenty-one hymns for the season (if you only use three hymns per Sunday). At our church we sing five during [...]

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(This is a three-part series on hymns for the Great Fifty Days of Easter.  Part II can be found here and Part III can be found here.)
I should have posted this the second day of Easter–24 March–but we were busy trying to get out of town, so sue me. But you still have plenty [...]

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See this post from 2006.

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