Sexagesima - February 7, 2010
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Sexagesima
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February 7, 2010
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Scroll Down for Announcements on:
- Schedule of Upcoming Events - Save the Dates!
- Music Notes from Cantus Ensemble
- Update on Help for Haitians - Over $2,150 Raised for the Orphanage
- The Flowers for the Altar Given by Janice Coleman and Richard Allgaier
Click the Link above to hear the sermon preached by
Father Steven Dart on Sexagesima Sunday
Parable of the Sower
Stained Glass
Canterbury Cathedral c. 1180
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Schedule of Events at Christ Church - Save the Dates!
Tuesday, February 16 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at 6 p.m. & Talent Show
Wednesday, February 17 Ash Wednesday Services at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 20 Parish Workday at the Church from 7-11 a.m.
Wednesday, February 24 Sung Eucharist for the Feast of St. Matthias at 10 a.m.
March 12-14 Lenten Retreat with St. Matthew's Parish in California
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The Men of the Anglican Church announce the
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, February 16, at 6 p.m.
$5 for Adults, $2 for Children
Raffle and the Annual Talent Show
Proceeds to benefit the Foothills Caring Corps
Please RSVP by calling 480-488-0525 or email to
betty@christchurchaz.org
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Ash Wednesday Services
February 17, 2010
Litany, Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion
10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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A Sung Eucharist will be offered on the
Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle
Wednesday, February 24, at 10 a.m.
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Music Notes from the Cantus Ensemble
Last week we announced our plan to explore the centuries of church music over the next several weeks, beginning last week with the 12th Century. This week brings us to the 13th Century, and choral works by two composers: Alfonso X el Sabio and Pérotin.
Karen Janusz is joining in with this scheme to the degree that she can. Given where music was in the 12th and 13th Centuries, there's precious little available for the organ from that period. So she's getting as close to it as she can, with a Prelude this week by Elizabethan England's John Bull (1563-1628), and a Postlude by Holland's Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621). In a couple of weeks, the Cantus Ensemble will catch up with her, and then we'll be doing music from the same centuries each Sunday.
Alfonso X el Sabio
Alfonso X (23 November 1221 - 4 April 1284) ruled as the King of Castile, León, and Galicia from 1252 until his death. He also was elected King of the Germans (formally King of the Romans) in 1257, though the Papacy prevented his confirmation.
He established Castilian as a language of higher learning, and earned his nicknames "el Sabio" ("the Wise") and "el Astrólogo" ("the Astrologer") through his own prolific writings, including Galician-Portuguese poetry.
Alfonso, with the intent of providing the kingdoms expanded under his father with a code of laws and a consistent judicial system, began medieval Europe's most comprehensive code of law, the Siete Partidas. Castile's nobility resisted the idea so well that it wasn't until his great-grandson's rule that the code of law was finally put into force. Siete Partidas, which remain fundamental law in the American Southwest, are the reason that Alfonso is one of the 23 lawmakers depicted in the House of Representatives chamber of the U.S. Capitol.
For the Offertory, we'll be singing Number 47 from his "Cantigas de Santa Maria" ("Songs to the Virgin Mary"), an enormous collection of poems he wrote in Galician-Portuguese and set to music.
Pérotin
Pérotin (fl. c. 1200), also called Pérotin the Great, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony, and one of very few composers of his day whose name has been preserved, and can be reliably attached to individual compositions.
He pioneered the styles of organum triplum and organum quadruplum (three and four-part polyphony). He liked to take a simple, well-known melody and stretch it out in time, so each syllable was hundreds of seconds long, and then use each note of the melody as the basis for rhythmically complex, interweaving lines above it. The result was that one or more vocal parts sang free, quickly moving lines over the chant below, which was extended to become a slowly shifting drone. For example, the piece we're singing for the Communion Anthem, is from his "Sederunt principes." We're singing the first part of the work - about 1/3 of the 29-page piece. We're printing the full text in the Bulletin, but the part that we're singing contains just the first word of the full chant - just the first syllable takes up 4 pages!
More information to come in the coming weeks ...
-- Eileen Mager, Cantus Ensemble
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Help for Haitians
Please Pray for Those Under Affliction
O MERCIFUL God, and heavenly Father, who hast taught us in thy holy Word that thou dost not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men; Look with pity, we beseech thee upon the sorrows of those who suffer in Haiti. Remember them, O Lord, in mercy; grant them grace to call upon thee in their distress; endue their souls with patience; comfort them with a sense of thy goodness; lift up thy countenance upon them, and give them peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen
Adapted from the "Collect for a Person Under Affliction", BCP 1928, p. 45
Please Give Generously for Those in Need
There are two Christian ministries already established in Haiti supported by members of Christ Church.
Food for the Hungry
Jewel Anita Hendrix, one of our parishioners, is a missionary with Food for the Hungry and recommends that donations may be directed through their web site
Many Thanks to all Those Who Have Contributed Over
$2,150.00 so far to
Notre Dame de la Grace Chapel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
One of our sister parishes, St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Newport Beach California, is making an urgent appeal for funds to assist Notre Dame de la Grace Chapel in Port-au-Prince. They have close ties to this parish and their priest, Father Bien-Aime.
UPDATE! from Fr. Bien-Aime
"Praise God we are all alive at the house except Roseland and Mirlange who get a injuries, but the house is totally lost right now we are all outside of my cousin's house because it is not safe to go in because the earthquake is till shaking keep us in your prayer."
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The Flowers for the Altar are given to the Glory of God
by
Janice Coleman and Richard Allgaier
in loving memory of
their dear friend, Wendy Shadwell.
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Christ Anglican Church
480-488-0525
P.O. Box 5892
35500 N. Cave Creek Road
Carefree, 85377
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