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Introit: “Sing to the Lord” (Psalms 98, 99, 100)
Words: Psalms 98, 99, and 100; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © KWY Songs, Music Services
Music: Willie Taylor; Irish traditional, 19th c.; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly and The McGraths © KWY Songs, Music Services
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Call to Worship: “Their Delight” (Psalm 1)
Words: Psalm 1; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Bánchnoic Éireann Ó; 18th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession: “From Dust We Came” (Psalm 90)
Words: Psalm 90; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Casadh an t’Súgáin; 18th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Assurance of Pardon
Prayer of Lament: “Save Me O God” (Psalm 69)
Words: Psalm 13; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Lament of the Three Marys / Coaineadh na dTrí Muire; Medieval Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer of Lament: “How Long” (Psalm 13)
Words: Psalm 69; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: The Streets of Derry; 19th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer of Lament: “Wings of a Dove” (Psalm 55)
Words: Psalm 55; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Ned of the Hill / Eamon an Chnoic; 16th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer of Intercession with “Love and Mercy” (Psalm 85)
Words: Psalm 85; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Lovely Molly; 18th c. Scottish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Passing of the Peace with “Peace Be With Jerusalem” (Psalm 122)
Words: Psalm 122; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: A Fig for a Kiss; 19th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer of Praise: “May We Rise” (Psalm 148, 149, 150)
Words: Psalms 148, 149, and 150; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Happy Are We All Together; 19th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Benediction
Postlude: “Hallelujah” (Psalm 146)
Words: Psalm 146; adapt. Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
Music: Here’s a Health; 18th c. Irish traditional; arr. Kiran Young Wimberly, The McGraths, and Dónal O’Conner © 2022 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
