Rembrandt van Rijn, Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house, etching, 1648if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday [NRSV, Isaiah 58:10].
Ash Wednesday [Comments]
7:30 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Mass Setting: Mass for five voices [Winchester: YouTube], William Byrd (1540-1623)
Motet: Peccantem me quotidie [text], Claudio Merulo (1533-1604)
Mass Setting: Mass for five voices [Winchester: YouTube], William Byrd (1540-1623)
Motet: Peccantem me quotidie [text], Claudio Merulo (1533-1604)
Postlude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß? / O World, bewail thy grievous fall [listen], BWV 622, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
