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5/17/2020

Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 108

Filed under: Bach Cantatas,General,Music — Patterico @ 12:01 am



It is the sixth Sunday of Easter. Today’s Bach cantata is “Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe” (It is good for you that I leave):

Today’s Gospel reading is John 14:15-21:

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

“If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

The text of today’s piece is available here. It contains these words, echoing the Gospel’s message in the Farewell Discourses:

It is good for you that I leave; for if I did not go, the Comforter would not come to you. Since I go, however, I will send Him to you.

. . . .

Thus Your Spirit will guide me,
so that I walk on the right path;
if through Your departure He comes indeed to me,
I ask with concern: ah, is He not already here?

But when that one, the Spirit of Truth, shall come, He shall lead you into all truth. For He will not speak of Himself, rather what He has heard, that will He speak of; and what is to come, He will foretell.

. . . .

Your Spirit, which God sends from heaven,
leads everything that loves Him,
upon well-paved roads.
He places and rights our feet,
so that they will not step amiss,
beyond where blessing is to be found.

Happy listening! Soli Deo gloria.

4 Responses to “Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 108”

  1. Happy Sunday to everyone!

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. Happy Sunday! Although I I’ve been silent, I do appreciate these posts

    felipe (023cc9)

  3. The music is wonderful, at times the vocals seem to be in the way. Just me. My wife loves the voices.

    mg (8cbc69)

  4. Gorgeous. The oboe especially is stunningly beautiful. (in the first movement?). I never listen to classical. Part of what’s wrong with me.

    JRH (52aed3)


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