Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 113
It is the fifth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Bach cantata is “Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut” (Lord Jesus Christ, O highest good):
Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30:
“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
“‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
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The Father Revealed in the Son
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
The text of today’s piece is available here. It contains these words:
Lord Jesus Christ, O highest good,
o fountain of all grace,
behold how in my emotions
I am weighed down with sorrows
and have many arrows in me,
that in my conscience endlessly
pierce me, a poor sinner.. . . .
Jesus takes sinners to himself!
Sweet word full of comfort and life!
He grants true rest to the soul
and calls comfortingly to each:
your sin is forgiven.
Happy listening! Soli Deo gloria.
Timely. But I guess the Eternal always is.
nk (1d9030) — 7/5/2020 @ 4:49 amTrue, but today the part that speaks to me is the promise to the “weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
DRJ (aede82) — 7/5/2020 @ 11:52 amThis x1,000. No matter our circumstances or the trials we face, there is always that quiet, still place of rest for us at the foot of the Cross.
Dana (25e0dc) — 7/5/2020 @ 4:25 pmThe Bishop of Lexington has allowed public Mass to be celebrated since May 20th, going along with Reichsstatthalter Andy Beshear’s decree, but has not allowed singing of hymns in Mass, I suppose because that would further project people’s breath and discourage the wearing of masks, which the Bishop has said remains mandatory.
So, no music.
Our priest said Mass outside yesterday, which supposedly helps dissipate contagion, and we have a reasonably pretty, shaded-in-the-morning area for it. But our parish is small; pre-COVID attendance was only around 40 people.
The Dana in Kentucky (a56b03) — 7/6/2020 @ 9:57 am