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4/28/2019

Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 149

Filed under: Bach Cantatas,General,Music — Patterico @ 12:07 pm



It is the second Sunday of Easter. Today’s Bach cantata is “Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg” (One sings with joy about victory).

Today’s Gospel reading is the same Gospel reading used every year for the second Sunday of Easter: John 20:19-31.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Jesus Appears to Thomas

Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Purpose of John’s Gospel

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

The text of today’s piece is available here. It contains these words, exulting in the Lord’s victory:

There are joyful songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord claims the victory, the right hand of the Lord is exalted, the right hand of the Lord claims the victory!

Power and strength be sung
to God, the Lamb, who has conquered
and driven out Satan,
who plagues us day and night.
Honor and victory is upon the righteous
brought about through the blood of the Lamb.

Happy listening! Soli Deo gloria.

[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]

7 Responses to “Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 149”

  1. Apologies for the lateness of the hour. Yesterday was a busy day and we were out very late.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. You know, in the olden days you would have had a great excuse…this last weekend of April used to be “jump ahead” Daylight Savings Time weekend.

    urbanleftbehind (72eba6)

  3. Thank you! Christ Is Risen!

    nk (dbc370)

  4. Amen! Alleluia!

    felipe (023cc9)

  5. The first Sunday after Easter is “our” Sunday of Thomas too. But that’s in a week.

    nk (dbc370)

  6. It’s strange, or maybe not strange at all, what childhood catechism will do to a person. We were taught that Holy Week is a somber and sad time, with Easter being a celebratory and happy occasion. Starting last Sunday afternoon, our Palm Sunday, and all through the week, I have had mainly subdued moods and negative emotions. Today, on our Easter, I feel uplifted, happy, and optimistic.

    nk (dbc370)

  7. And yesterday I learned:

    Quasimodo Sunday. Quasimodo Sunday the Sunday after Easter, Low Sunday, from Latin quasi modo, the first words of the introit for this day, quasi modo geniti infantes ‘as if new-born babes’.

    nk (dbc370)


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