The preludes yesterday ran 9.5 minutes, consisting of three basic pieces. First, Frank's organ classic, "Piece Heroique." Let me translate freely and call it "Victory Song." The victory comes only after a good, hard look at difficulties straight in the eye, unflinching. That's how I thought about Lent V. The piece refers to no lyrics, so I segued into a verse of "Beneath the Cross of Jesus."
The second element, taking us up to 3 minutes before the hour was the Pipers, a piece for two flutes. This was my signal that we had just entered the spring season.
Then to take us meditatively into the 10 o'clock hour of worship I played a version of "Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult."
For the offertory I put end to end a Jesus suffering hymn, "Go to dark Gethsemane," with a Bach classic chorale arrangement.
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