February 22nd, first Sunday in Lent. Please join us!
Glebe St James welcomes you in person or online as we celebrate the first Sunday in Lent starting at 10:30 am at 650 Lyon St. South
Here's what you can expect at Glebe St-James this Sunday:
- Rev. Dr. Teresa Burnett-Cole will lead the service.
- We will celebrate communion in this service so if you are watching from home, prepare a cracker and some red beverage and celebrate with us!
- Pam Fitch will welcome us.
- David Brown will acknowledge that the land on which we gather and work is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Algonquin People, unceded and unsurrendered.
- Liz Elton will read the scripture from John 2:1-11.
- Our Minister of Music, Paul Grose, and the choir will lead us in music and song; the Gift of Music will be "Gather us In" with Liz Elton (flute).
Today’s Instrumental Music
♪ "Juliet's Waltz" was composed in 2025 by Grant Horsley (b. 1959), a UK-based composer, ballet accompanist, teacher and classical/jazz/rock performer. The song is named after Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
♪ "My Song Is Love Unknown" is an arrangement by Dale Wood (1934-2003), California-based composer, teacher and editor, of the traditional Welsh hymn tune "Rhosymedre," written by Rev. J. D. Edwards in 1840.
♪ Today's communion-themed anthem, 'Gather us in' is a 1982 hymn by Minneapolis-based Marty Haugen, an influential hymn writer who has worked in the Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and United Church of Christ denominations.
Here is the bulletin for the service to follow along with the words of texts, hymns, songs, and prayers. You can join the service live at 10:30 am on YouTube; after the service ends, it will be available to watch as a recording.
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