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For Palm Sunday
April 17, 2011 — KristineHosanna to the Son of David–Weelkes, Gibbons
1. My song is love unknown,
My Savior’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I,
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh, and die? Read the rest of this entry »
A very short post about Elder Cook’s talk
April 5, 2011 — KristineWhen women are really allowed to work “side by side” with men in the church, talks like this will be unnecessary.
Saturday Evening Priesthood Session
April 2, 2011 — KristineBelatedly, here’s the thread.
Elder Neil L. Anderson and Elder Steven Snow have just addressed us–I’m catching up now.
Brother Larry M. Gibson, First Counselor of the YM General Presidency
Keys of presidency–deacons’ quorum presidents get them, too. (I’m still not going to start calling my son “President”). Read the rest of this entry »
Ash Wednesday
March 8, 2011 — KristineI’m pretty sure I had never seen anyone with ashes on his forehead until I was in college–the imposition of ashes at the start of Lent just wasn’t part of the liturgical life of the Baptist/Methodist/Campbellite town I grew up in. I was initially puzzled, and then vaguely repulsed by this physical, public acknowledgment of sin and penitence and the messiness of mortality.
Culturally, Mormons aren’t really big on public acknowledgment of sin–we’re optimistic that sin can be contained at home or, at worst, in the bishop’s office. We speak cheerily of the 4 (or 5, or 7, depending on the teacher’s creativity) R’s of Repentance, a discreet process akin to running the dishwasher. Read the rest of this entry »
UVU to host yet another really cool conference
February 17, 2011 — KristineJust when you thought last year’s Mormon Studies conference at UVU could not be improved upon…
Check this out.
Psalm of the Tween’s Mother
January 27, 2011 — KristineI will sing to the Lord, for he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Yea, he hath delivered my soul from the cries of the infant in the night; from sleeplessness hath he (mostly) redeemed me. From the toddler’s dangerous curiosity and the three-year-old’s “why” and the five-year-old’s bedwetting he has raised me up.
Therefore I will give thanks unto God among the heathen, in the playgroup will I shew forth his praises.
Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses, for they have been ever of old. Turn thee unto me and have mercy, for I am brought low, I am made the mother of tweens. Read the rest of this entry »
Do it!!
December 30, 2010 — KristineIf you haven’t yet, get over to fMh and donate to THARCE-Gulu. It’s a good cause, and Judy Dushku is a force of nature–she will make amazingly good things happen with just a little help from you. Go!
Holy, Holy, Holy
December 27, 2010 — KristineWe speak so often of “taking” the Sacrament, and too rarely of receiving it. Our discussions revolve around what we should do, what we should wear, what we should sing, when we should arrive at church, how we should quiet our children so that we can be certain to constrain the Lord’s Spirit to be with us. It’s a little silly, really, to imagine that we are in charge, that a member of the Godhead might be put off by the shade of our shirts or the happy prattle of our children. I’ve always loved what Annie Dillard had to say about such delusions:
On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does any-one have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake some day and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.” (Teaching a Stone to Talk, Harper & Row, 1982) Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent–The O Antiphons
December 24, 2010 — KristineFirst of all, if you haven’t read Jim Faulconer’s lovely Advent meditation, DO!
Belatedly, here are some settings of the O Antiphons for Advent, traditionally sung during evening services from 17-23 December. The texts are based mostly on passages from Isaiah, and are titled O Sapientia (Wisdom), O Adonai (Lord), O Radix Jesse (Root of Jesse), O Clavis David (Key of David), O Oriens (Dayspring), O Rex Gentium (King of the Nations), and O Emmanuel.
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Also, for tonight: the plaintive cry, Veni, Veni Emmanuel (again) and the joyous answer, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day.
Merry Christmas!
Music for Advent–Rorate caeli desuper
December 20, 2010 — KristineMusic for Advent
December 17, 2010 — KristineTwo more settings of O magnum mysterium, one by Javier Busto, which is new to me (and which, honestly, I don’t quite get yet–I’d love to see a score) and kinda cool.
And one by Francis Poulenc, which is my favorite of all.
What I Wish I Had Said (II)
December 15, 2010 — KristineSo, yeah, I’m lousy at the extemporaneous thing. In this Zeitcast, I only forgot to say the most important thing–WHY it matters whether our congregational and choral singing is good. Here’s why:
1) Singing is the closest we get to understanding what an exalted body might be like and what it might be for.
2) Singing together, especially as a choir that works hard, but also as a congregation that sings enthusiastically, is the best approximation of Zion we have. Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent
December 14, 2010 — KristineOld (Cristobal de Morales) * and new (Pierre Villette) again. See here for text.
*Here’s another recording, problematic in different ways. (I’ll turn you all into choral music critics yet!)
Music for Advent
December 13, 2010 — Kristine(I’ve stopped counting :))
For this week, a single text:
- O magnum mysterium, Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent XI
December 9, 2010 — KristineYou already know I love Mendelssohn’s motets. His Sechs Sprüche for various occasions in the liturgical calendar are short pieces for 8-part choir. I love them for lots of reasons, not least the recurrent use of my second-favorite German word “frohlocken.” (My very favorite is “Wonne”. I know you were wondering.) This video has good notes, with translations and links to the other five (of which my very favorite is Am Neujahrstage, in case you were wondering).
Music for Advent X
December 7, 2010 — KristineTwo settings of John Jacob Niles’ transcription (or invention) of an Appalachian carol.
Winter Reflections on Dialogue
December 5, 2010 — Kristine
The Winter issue of Dialogue (Volume 43, Number 4, for those of you keeping score at home) is up on the website, and will be in mailboxes soon. There are lots of things I really like about this issue, starting with the cover, which is one of my favorites so far. (I think I say that every time).
I started to write about articles I especially like, but then realized I’m like a mother who can’t pick a favorite among her children. I do think this is a particularly wide-ranging issue, and I suspect there’s something there for everyone (or at least for that subset of everyone that includes thinky Mormons who like math, scriptural studies, rhetoric, fiction about a snorkeling stake president and a quilting group, family history, Wales and little boys named Evan, slightly racy stories about apostles’ sons, poetry about Joseph Smith, poetry by noted national authorcolumnistcriticblogger Lizzie Skurnick, an interview by goofy, starstruck me with renowned novelist Brady Udall, a fat, satisfying heap of book reviews, or a great sermon in Spanish–a Dialogue first).
Music for Advent VII
December 4, 2010 — KristineThe Seven Joys of Mary (x 3) Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent VI
December 3, 2010 — KristineMusic for Advent IV
December 1, 2010 — KristineWarning: If this does not make you weep, you are probably dead.
Text and translation below the fold. Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent III
November 30, 2010 — KristineCome, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
This is a do-it-yourself entry. The tune is “Hyfrydol,” which we have as “In Humility, Our Savior” in our hymnal. (A very nice organ prelude on the tune starts at 7:56 here. Bonus points if you listen to the preceding prelude, on Rhosymedre, and know which hymn in our book uses that tune). The text is by Charles Wesley. Sing out!
Come, thou long expected Jesus,
born to set thy people free; Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent II
November 29, 2010 — KristineTwo settings of the Ave Maris Stella Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Advent I
November 28, 2010 — KristineIn the past, I’ve done the 12 days of Christmas, starting them, in snotty pedantic fashion, on December 25th, which is where they begin in the Catholic and Anglican liturgical calendar. But since Mormons tend to frontload our musical celebration, I thought I’d try some Advent music earlier in the season. Today is the first Sunday of Advent–for some possibilities for celebrating, see Eric Huntsman’s excellent post at T&S.
I thought I’d start with some Marian devotion, since we don’t get to do that much at church ;) And also because I know of no fuller instantiation of longing and active waiting than the last month of pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »
Next Weekend in Seattle and Portland
November 6, 2010 — KristineAll the action is on the left coast next weekend–the Sunstone Northwest Symposium will be held in Seattle on Saturday, November 13th, with a Sunday evening event in Portland. Details here. The all-star lineup includes BCCers Levi Peterson, Steve Evans, J. Stapley, and Tracy M. Go!!
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