St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Burlingame

Thank you to the St. Paul's Altar Guild for the lovely flower arrangements for the online services on January 17 and 24.

PrayingTogether @ St. Paul's means deepening relationships while physically distant. We decided to take our weekly appointed readings and selected music online. Pray this Online Service here, together. Videos and bulletins (to follow the service) will be posted every Saturday by 4pm. To learn more, go to www.stpaulsburlingame.org. The bulletin for the Baptism of the Lord can be downloaded here: https://23ecd0ac-7ff5-4372-8dc0-3de64f57a0a6.filesusr.com/ Timing:... Welcome: 0:00 Opening Acclamation: 0:25 Hymn, Down to the River to Pray: 0:34 Collect for the Day: 3:$5 The First Lesson, Acts 19:1-7: 4:37 Psalm 29: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11: 5:31 The Holy Gospel, Matthew 1: 4-11: 6:59 The Sermon: 8:21 Anthem, Take me to the water: 21:50 The Prayers of the People: 25:55 The Lord’s Prayer: 29:27 Announcements: 30:09 Hymn 370, I bind unto myself today: 33:07 The Blessing and Dismissal: 37:36 Postlude, Minutes 1 and 2, BWV 1007 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Haruka Ota, cello: 38:20 Copyright Acknowledgements Music streamed under OneLicense.net # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use MUSIC NOTE by Susan Jane Matthews, Director of Music On this First Sunday after the Epiphany, we celebrate The Baptism of our LORD with two spirituals that are songs of the water of life. The opening hymn, Down in the river to pray, is arranged by David L. Mennicke, Director of Choral Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota since 1989. This recording is from the Choir School Concert on March 7, 2020 which highlighted music in films, this spiritual made famous by the 2000 Coen brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? At the anthem, a quartet from the Choir of St. Paul’s sings the spiritual Take me to the water in an arrangement by Alice Parker (b. 1925), with countertenor soloist Joey Blundell, a Choir School alumni. An October 2020 documentary, At Home with Alice Parker, is a wonderful glimpse into the life’s work of this legendary New England composer, conductor and teacher: https://youtu.be/lxo9vuuOIcE. Alice Parker has composed hundreds of original works including operas, choral suites, song cycles, cantatas, anthems and hymns and nearly 200 arrangements of folksongs, hymns and spirituals with the American conductor Robert Shaw (1916-1999). The service closes with Minuets for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) played by Haruka Ota, an 11-year old Chorister in the St. Paul’s Choir School.

We must be clear, for our own common good.

Lifting up music of healing from around the world. Honoring health care workers. Praying for those who are ill. Total Running Time: 1:03:28 Go here for the PDF: https://drive.google.com//1Fh9-ny93izRhuogtbDYX3P__M/view... Timing: Spiritual, arr. William Dawson | There is a balm in Gilead: 0:17 Elizabeth Kimble | Preces and Responses: 5:11 Hymn | Sekai no tomo to te o tsunagi:6:43 Howard Goodall | Psalm 23: 11:14 First Lesson, Sirach 38:1-4, 6-10, 12-14: 14:30 Sarah MacDonald | Magnificat: 16:25 Second Lesson, Luke 4: 14-21: 20:49 Sarah MacDonald | Nunc dimittis: 21:59 Elizabeth Kimble | Responses: 24:41 Fanny Hensel | Lobgesang: 31:29 Prayers of Intercession: 49:42 Hymn | Abide with me: 53:26 Fanny Hensel | Präludium in G Major: 57:21 Choirs: Choir of St. Paul’s; St. Paul’s Choir School Soloists: Abigail Akers, Elizabeth Kimble, Akane Ota Director of Music: Susan Jane Matthews, DMA, ARSCM Readers: Dr. Wade Aubry, Dr. Amy Akers Prayers of Intercession: The Rev. Thomas Skillings, Rector of St. Paul’s 6:30PM PDT ZOOM RECEPTION https://zoom.us/j/6363798338 Commissioning of Choirs, Music & Wells Cathedral Residency Committees Choir School October Prizes October Birthday Blessings Farewell Tributes to Karl and Tom Breice as they move to Wisconsin Copyright Acknowledgements Music streamed under OneLicense.net # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use

Community @ St. Paul's means deepening relationships while physically distant. We decided to take our weekly appointed readings and selected music online. Pray this Online Service here, together. Videos and bulletins (to follow the service) will be posted every Saturday by 4pm. To learn more, go to www.stpaulsburlingame.org. The bulletin for this 20th Sunday After Pentecost can be found downloaded here: https://23ecd0ac-7ff5-4372-8dc0-3de64f57a0a6.filesusr.com/ Timing:... Welcome: 0:00 Opening Chimes: 0:36 Opening Acclamation: 1:05 Hymn 423, Immortal, invisible, God only wise: 1:12 Collect for the Day: 3:58 The First Lesson, Exodus 33:12-23: 4:41 Psalm 99: 7:04 The Holy Gospel, Matthew 22:15-22: 9:23 The Sermon: 11:17 Anthem, A Prayer of St. Columba: 25:20 The Prayers of the People: 28:25 The Lord’s Prayer: 31:33 Announcements, Stewardship Encouragement: 32:18 Hymn, Brilliant Spring: 35:00 Blessing & Dismissal: 37:25 Postlude, Toccata in d minor (Dorian), BWV 538, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): 37:49 Copyright Acknowledgements Music streamed under OneLicense.net # A-706347 and a Rite Song reprint license for congregational use

The Outreach Team is happy to share our conversation on CA Propositions with civic and faith leaders: https://youtu.be/zxupboytjs8 We walked through Propositions 16, 17, 20, 21, and 25. Special thanks to Michael Brownrigg of Burlingame City Hall and followed up by either Dr. Rev. Marlyn Bussey (St. James AME Zion Church) or Dr. Rev. Penny Nixon (Congregational Church of San Mateo United Church of Christ) (both from the Peninsula Solidarity Network).

Three things to do today: 1. Participate in online prayer: https://youtu.be/ko7_jj72yfA 2. Attend a coffee hour to connect with others and gain support (8:45am or 10:45am) (Zoom links can be found at: https://www.stpaulsburlingame.org/events) 3. Donate to Home & Hope and register to listen to the 12th Annual Choral Concert!

Join us for a conversation about CA Propositions 16, 17, 20, 21, 25! Micheal Brownrigg from the City of Burlingame and Dr. Rev. Marlyn Bussey and Dr. Rev. Penny Nixon (both from the Peninsula Solidarity Network) will share their perspectives and offer us encouragement to vote.

Enjoy music [on Sunday] and GIVE to Home & HOPE [now]! You’ll hear Choir of St. Paul’s and four other church choirs from the Peninsula offer programs, with introductory videos from each director. Thomas Skillings, St. Paul’s Rector, offers the welcome to the concert. The cantata Lobgesang by the German Romantic composer Fanny Hensel will be highlighted with the two choruses sung virtually by seventeen singers from the Choir of St. Paul’s, and the soprano aria sung from St. ...Paul’s by Elizabeth Kimble. St. Paul's staff quartet also recorded at St. Paul’s a new setting of the hymn "Be still, my soul by Benjamin Sabey, director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. RSVP to www.homeandhope.net/choral-concert-12 to obtain a link to watch. There is also opportunity at the link to donate to the ministry of Home and Hope.

The Presiding Bishop visits DioCal! Listen to Bishop Andrus' greeting from 7:35-12:03 and PResiding Bishop Curry's sermon from 27:34-48:07 where he reminds us, "Don't you get weary!"