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Bread! Bread! Bread! Give us your bread recipe in September!
And we have some! We are publishing them as we receive them here. Hopefully it would be a reference the next time you need bread and want some good recipes.
"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?"
–Julia Child
People revolted in the past over the lack of bread and when they only had stale bread. This month we would like to celebrate bread instead. This month Feasting on Jesus on the 12th will combine Fish and Bread. Then later in the month on Sat. Sept 28 at 9:00am there will be a “Bread Retreat.” What more can we do ?
This month we would like to collect bread recipes of the parish. You name it – we want – loaf breads, muffins, cornbread, pizza dough, bagles, banana bread, beer bread, pretzels, pumpernickel – whatever you have that could be considered as brea. If we get enough you will be able to sort the bread by type.
We have an online form for this. Also you can send them to Catherine by email . But if you have a typed out card Catherine will take that too.
Deadline is the bread retreat day or Sept 28.
Coming up…
The Thirteen is an elite ensemble of twelve professional singers based in South Jersey, specializing in music of the Renaissance and Baroque. Based in the New York area, The Thirteen performs throughout the mid-Atlantic region and tours nationally. They are predominently young and diverse who blend into one in their concerts.
Works performed on the 2012-2013 Season included Bach St. John Passion, Tallis Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater, Victoria Missa Ave regina coelorum, Menotti The Unicorn, The Gorgon and the Manticore, Part Magnificat
What does it take to sing in this group ?
-Experience in choirs that frequently perform at a high level of excellence
-Excellent sightreading skills
-A commitment to the mission and activities of The Thirteen.
-Variability of vocal color, from non-vibrato to the capability for solo singing
-A team player – the ability to work well with other artists in a collective process
The concert will be free and open to all and will be advertised through the region. We need donations to help cover the costs.
Please join St Asaph’s, Historic Port Royal, and several individual donors in supporting this concert and hopefully, other concerts to come.
Categories are :
- Well Wishers, up to $99,
- Friends, up to $499, and
- Benefactors, $500 or more.
You can make a donation by dropping it in the offering plate or mailing it to St Peter’s. Note “Music Fund” on the memo line. Churches have always been centers of the arts and particularly vocal traditions.
We will see if this event leads to more concerts and even, possibly, a concert series.
St. Peter’s Gardens
From "God’s Garden" by Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858-1932)
We asked people to submit pictures of their gardens in the summer of 2013. What do these gardens look like ? Why are people so passionate about them ?
Gardens are another example of our community together. They bring people together over the produce, flowers and beauty they create. They bring people together in the process it takes to bring them into fulfillment.
Don’t see your pet ? Upload a picture
Prayer requests – Add a name to the prayer list here.
Sunday, September 15, 2013 (full size gallery)
September 22- 10:50am, Godly Play (preschool through 2nd grade)
September 22- 11:00am, Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Calendar
This Sunday at St. Peter’s – Servers, Readings
"Picnic on the Beach – September 12, 2012 (full size gallery)
Here’s the full photo gallery from "Picnic on the Beach" from September 12. 10 people enjoyed a wide variety of seafood, bread and a display of pictures, maps and shells from Catherine’s previous trip to the Sea of Galilee. " Thanks to both Jim Heimbach and Catherine for capturing these pictures. Here’s a link to more information from the book
Lectionary this week, Sept. 22, "the Reversal"
Marinus van Reymerswaele – "The Parable of the Unjust Steward" (1540). Luke 16:1-13
The readings are here.
1. Theme – "The reversal"
1. God is an active force reversing the tide of history. God hears the plea of the tenant farmers in the Psalm suffering the Babylonian exile and the childless couple. In the Gospel, God is pitted against the Roman authority and those who exploit and have made their riches dishonestly since that will determine how you deal with true riches in the future. God reverses the role of the rich and poor looking at the riches in heaven as oppose to this life where the poor have little
2. There is the need as spelled out in Amos to reverse the idea of collective guilt. The key in the lectionary is the effect of harsh relations with the poor and “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.”
In the Gospel we need to use wealth effectively to serve the needs of other which will bring about more trusting and equal relations. This is the key with the dishonest manger reducing debt to his manager. One he was building his own wealth he now works to enrich others, reducing their bills to his master and building a relationship of mutual benefit. Luke is all about the proper use of wealth. As David Lose writes "Except that it’s not just the use of wealth; it’s more like Luke is concerned with our relationship to wealth and how that affects our relationships with others."
3. In the Epistle, Christian offer prayers for everyone but is clear that at the pinnacle is God who desires all to be saved. The request in 1 Timothy 2:2 to pray “for kings” instead of “to the kings” , thus bringing down in prestige the Imperial forces at Rome. And it would include the poor The word about “a quiet and peaceable life in goodness and dignity” in 1 Tim 2:1-2 may be what we are looking for.
2. Lectionary Links
3. Summaries
The Bread Retreat, Sept 28, 9am – Parish House
Do you like to make bread or you have ever longed to make bread ? This is the day for you, plus as an added benefit you will see a great film! Were you here on Sunday, July 28 when Catherine made bread for the congregations ? Here is what it looked like:
More specifically you will learn to make braided bread which is both beautiful and delicious. It’s the perfect addition to any dinner. Even if you don’t plan to bake, it might be entertaining watching those who will.
If you plan to bake, you’ll need to bring the following things with you:
- An apron if you want to protect your clothes from flour
- Eight to nine cups of unbleached flour (bread flour is also fine) (A five pound bag of flour will be more than enough flour)
- 2 packages of dry yeast (Not quick rising) I find that the Hodgson Mill brand works well
- ½ cup of sugar
- 4 teaspoons of salt
- 2 eggs –at room temperature
- A stick of butter—at room temperature
- A measuring cup
- A large bowl
- A sturdy spatula
- A baking sheet
- A cutting board
- A dish towel for covering the dough while it is rising
While this is rising you will get to the see the film, The Way.
Gospel on the Rivah, Sunday, Sept. 29, 4pm
Along with the beginning of fall, football and school, September brings "Gospel on the Rivah", this year the last Sunday in September, 4pm at Portabago Bay. Rain location is St. Peter’s
Here are several links
1. Last year Helmut wrote a history of the event. It likely goes back to 2007 where as Helmut writes "From our residence, we see the river front improvement here at Portobago. The Lord has created this beautiful spot for us. So, why not thank him and praise him right there in the midst of his beautiful creation. "
2. Here is a story of last year’s event with 35 in attendance led by Tom Guthrie.
3. Here is the 2012 slide gallery
Finally a few verses of possibly the theme song of the event "Shall We Gather at The River" from last year should put you in the mood:
Music Background for the "Thirteen" – Renaissance music 2 – Josquin Desprez and the Motet
The Thirteen will be at St. Peter’s on Oct 22, 2013 at 7pm. The concert is free but we are accepting donations to cover the cost. We are hoping this will be the first in a concert series. Here is their site.
The first part of this series introduced Renaissance music and explored two characteristics, polyphany and musical painting. Today we look at one form of this music – the Motet.
We are focusing on vocal music and in particular sacred vocal music
One word about those employed as Renaissance musicians and not covered last week. It was a good time to be in music because there were a variety of employers
As in the past, musicians worked in churches, courts, and towns. Church choirs grew in size. (The papal choir in Rome increased from ten singers in 1442 to twentyfour in 1483.) The church remained an important patron of music, but musical activity gradually shifted to the courts nation states became more powerful during the Renaissance.
Kings, princes, and dukes competed for the finest composers. A single court might have ten to sixty musicians, including singers as well as instrumentalists. Women functioned as virtuoso singers at several Italian courts during the late Renaissance. A court music director would compose secular pieces to entertain the nobility and sacred works for the court chapel. The nobility often brought their musicians along when traveling from one castle to another.
The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the motet and the mass. They are alike in style, but a mass is a longer composition. The Renaissance mass is a polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
Motets first developed in the late Middle Ages but flourished primarily in the Renaissance. Unlike Medieval motets, Renaissance motets are smooth-sounding and imitative in texture. Although a motet can sound like a Mass, a Mass is based on one of the five prayers of the "Ordinary" (Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) while a motet has some other type of religious text. A motet is usually sung a cappella (without instrumental accompaniment), although instruments may "double" the voices.
One of key composers of the Motet was Josquin Desprez about 1440–1521), a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Christopher Columbus. Josquin’s compositions, which include masses, motets, and secular vocal pieces, strongly influenced other composers and were praised enthusiastically by music lovers. Martin Luther, himself a composer wrote that Desprez’s "works are cheerful, gentle, mild, and lovely; they flow and move along and are neither forced nor coerced and bound by rigid and stringent rules, but, on the contrary, are like the song of the finch."
Josquin’s four-voice motet "Ave Maria . . . virgo serena" is an outstanding Renaissance
choral work and was composed around 1475. This is a good example of the polyphany style during the Renaissance. The vocal writing is smooth and the harmonies are more consonant (sweet-sounding) than works from the Middle Ages.
The short melodic phrase on Ave Maria is presented by the soprano voice and
then imitated in turn by the alto, tenor, and bass. The next two words, "gratia plena"
(full of grace), have a different melody, which also is passed from voice to voice. Each voice enters while the preceding one is in the middle of its melody. This over lapping creates a feeling of continuous flow. Josquin adapted the melody for the opening phrases from a Gregorian chant, but the rest of the motet was not based on a chant melody.
This the way it would look graphed out:
Josquin skillfully varies the texture of this motet; two, three, or four voices are heard at one time. In addition to the imitation among individual voices, there is imitation between pairs of voices: duets between the high voices are imitated by the two lower parts. Sometimes the texture almost becomes homophonic, as at the words Ave, vera virginitas. He also varies the speed for both variety and tension. Ave Maria ends with slow chords that express Josquin’s personal plea to the Virgin: "O Mother of God, remember me. Amen. "
Text and Translation Latin "Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum, virgo serena…Ave cuius conceptio, solemni plena gaudio… coelestia terretria nova replet laetitia…Ave cuius nativitas nostra fuit solemnitas…ut lucifer lux oriens verum solem praeveniens…Ave pia humilitas, sine viro fecunditas…cuius annuntiatio nostra fuit salvatio…Ave vera virginitas, immaculata castitas… cuius purificatio nostra fuit purgatio…Ave praeclara omnibus angelicis virtutibus…cuius assumptio nostra glorificatio… O mater Dei, memento mei. Amen."
English – "Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with you serene Virgin…Hail, you whose conception, full of great jubilation fills heaven and earth with new joy…Hail, whose birth brought us joy…as the dawn’s light shines before the true sun appears…Hail, pious humility, fruitful without a man…whose Annunciation brought us salvation…Hail true virginity, immaculate chastity… whose purification brought our cleansing…Hail, glorious one in all angelic virtues…whose Assumption was our glorification…O Mother of God, remember me. Amen..