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This Week at St. Matthew's
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THE COLLECT
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son
Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting
life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's
resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving
Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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The Sounds of St. Matthew's
You can listen to complete audio recordings of last Sunday night's service featuring the Pampa Civic Chorus performing the Faure Requiem. You can also listen to a few clips from last week's AM service (3/28/2010) as well as clips from past services online by clicking one of the following links:
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Thank You!
 Rick & I would like to offer a heart felt thank you to all who helped make last Sunday evening's concert with the Pampa Civic Chorus a beautiful night of worship and music. We would like to especially thank the St. Matthew's Vestry, Altar Guild, Mother Linda, Jan Ragsdale, Mark Lang, Sue & Hall Cree and Natalie Reeve. Without your help and continuous support Rick & I could never be able to do what we do.
The evening of passionate music was a true joy and a transcendent experience. We were able to get a great recording of the concert and have posted MP3 audio clips of each song on our website at www.RnRFusion.com and will soon be posted on St. Matt's new website due to be online next week! To listen to the evening's music and hymns click on the following link: Pampa Civic Chorus Performs the Faure Requiem.
Be looking to hear more from the Pampa Civic Chorus this Summer, Fall & Christmas Season.
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Adult Sunday School Class Continues New Discussion
Come join our weekly Adult Inquiry Sunday School class that meets each Sunday morning at 9:30 AM in the Parish Hall. The class is growing and is a very interactive discussion of topics that concern our lives as the people of God.
This week the class continues their new study from a book entitled "Same Kind Of Different As Me".
Please join us and help enrich the lively discussion and insights as we begin a new study.
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Vita brevis, Longa ars
(Life is Short, Art long - Hippocrates)
"O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for 'evermore; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen"
This coming Easter Sunday at St. Matthews will be like no other in the history of Anglican worship.
I am a true Franco-phile and have devoted enormous time and energy to the study and attention to the great traditions of French religious/musical culture. The whole art of transcendence in organ improvisation is a completely cosmic experience.
We will begin our worship this coming Sunday with an improvisation on an original tune and text from St. Augustine's Prayer Book - Glorificamus est in Adoramus (Glory is in Adoration). The choir will enter chanting this historic text to an original tune and I will improvise on the tune as we process.
The great organist of the Cathedral Notre Dame in Paris, Olivier Latry has exercised this format as well as his many predecessors such as Pierre Cochereau and Marcel Dupre. This unique and "cosmic" approach to worship captures so much of the essence of inspiration and transcendence that the French take for granted in religious worship practice. We westerners have such an elemental approach to spirituality that it is almost infantile. Our "juvenile" religious culture is still in the throngs of deciding who is the most effective and relevant. The levels of spirituality in European religious culture is light years ahead of American understanding.
So be it.
So, we begin this Easter Sunday at St. Matthews with a completely spontaneous method of musical/spiritual engagement. May God richly inspire our thoughts, prayers and intent beyond anything we can imagine. Amen
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Service Music for This Week
Improvisation and Introit on
Glorificamus est in Adoremus
Processional Hymn 207
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Responsorial Psalm 118:1-2,14-24
Sequence Hymn 205
Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing
Offertory Anthem
When Christ Comes to Die
Letterman/Hopson
Communion Hymn
Lord of the Dance
Recessional Hymn 210
The Day of Resurrection
Closing Voluntary
Toccata in D minor J.S. Bach
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Rick & Russ' Blog 
at RnRFusion.com
Visit Our Homepage
by Russ
If you have not visited our home page at RnRFusion.com lately stop by and experience moments as they are captured each week in our live worship services. What you hear as you visit our site through the media player at the top of each page at RnRFusion.com are the original arrangements and compositions that Rick & I are creating each week in service to our little church in the Texas panhandle, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Pampa, TX. Although we have our fingers in so many pies we make our service music for St. Matthew's our top priority each week. We are having a blast while breaking through the barriers of church music with our special "fusion" of great literature, original compositions and improvisations in the use of the historic Mohler Pipe Organ and the Yamaha Motif Synthesizer.
We are very grateful to the people of St. Matthew's for allowing us to express our hearts of worship through our spiritual and musical gifts.
Rick & I have experienced leading worship and making music in the largest evangelical churches in the state of Texas, but they do not compare to the beauty, tranquility and aesthetic spiritual depth that we have the freedom to experience at St. Matthew's through our weekly musical offerings in service to God and the dear people of St. Matt's.
We hope that you are blessed by what you hear. To hear the corporate musical expressions from the congregation of St. Matthew's.....(click here to read more of what you can find at RnR Fusion)
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We would love to invite you to participate in a weekly discussion with Rick & Russ through their blog at www.RnRFusion.com.
We hope to engage our fellow worshipers in thoughtful discussion on many topics concerning worship, religious and humanitarian issues. Just click on the above web address link or logo and join in the discussion. You can contribute comments by filling out the form on the blog page at the bottom of the post. Let us know what your thoughts are on the subjects discussed about in our blog. Our discussions will be fun as well as provocative.
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Sounds of
St. Matthew's You can listen to clips from last Sunday's service by clicking on this link:
WORSHIP MUSIC CLIPS
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St. Matthew's Worship Ministries
Rev. Linda Kelly, Rector - Rick Land & Russ Tapp, Musicians
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church 727 W. Browning, Pampa, TX 79065
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