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 Mary and Martha loving and listening Voices Found #23 In life's busy moments 1. In life's busy moments we circle in haste, Like Martha so worried when Jesus she faced. He comes to visit, he comes to share; we learn to listen, we learn to care 2. While Mary her sister sat listening in awe. the Lord spoke of God's love embracing us all. He comes to visit, he comes to share; we learn to listen, we learn to care 3. Present in conflict, enriching our souls, with Mary and Martha he loves and consoles. He comes to visit, he comes to share; we learn to listen, we learn to care 4. Allulia he comes in glorious array; we pause in daily life to ponder and pray. He comes to visit, he comes to share; we learn to listen, we learn to care Words: Katharine L. Smith Music: Hasting, Robert A. M. Ross Robert Ross, Music Director for the Lady Chapel Singers, wrote this deceptively simple tune which is easy to sing.  Ross's music with its optional ostinato accompaniment compels us to focus ...

Voices Found Celebrates Mary Magdalene Voices Found #45 That Easter morn Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! That Easter morn at break of day, a faithful woman went her way to seek the tomb were Jesus lay. Alleluia! When Mary’s heart was filled with gloom as she stood weeping near the tomb, a stranger spoke, she knew not whom. Alleluia! “Why do you weep?” His question came? “Whose is the body you would claim?” And then at last he spoke her name. Alleluia! No longer weeping, anguish bent, but with rejoicing Mary went, by Christ, the first apostle sent. Alleluia! Words: Stanza 1 Jean Tisserand (?-1494; tr John Mason Neale (1818-1866), alt; Sts. 2, 3, 4 Delores Duffner, OSB Music: O filii et filiae, melody from Airs sur les hymnes sacrez, odes et noels , 1623; acc. Carl Haywood About the music and text Early liturgical plays, some with music, engaged enthusiastic worshippers with dramatic action.  As such, they were precursors of opera and musicals.  This chant is...

Voices Found celebrates the bold! Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth On July 19-20 we remember our  foremothers, bold reformers who fought and won women's rights, freedoms, and suffrage. In 1776, women did not share in the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.  Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Amelia Bloomer   organized the Women's  Civil Rights Convention July 19-20, 1883  to demand women's suffrage.   August 18, 1920, one hundred forty-four years after the  Declaration was signed in Philadelphia in, women finally won the right to vote.  Let us sing to celebrate the bold! In boldness, look to God Voices Found 94 1. In boldness look to God for help, like women folk who dared  to ask that Jesus heal a child, that crumbs of grace be shared, that outcast ones be welcomed to the feast that God has prepared. 2. In boldness lean on God f...