When love is found

There is a new clip on YouTube: our anthem from this past Sunday.
When Love is Found (Daniel Kallman)

Sunday's lessons were one of the few occasions in the Lectionary when the subject of Marriage appears. Musically, we were able to support this with our anthem, with a fine text by Brian Wren that recognizes how marital love changes. By the time one has been married thirty or forty years, it is quite different from the first days of “falling in love.” Here is a link to the Hymnary.org page. It appears that if you agree to the licensing terms, you may download a copy of the text from the publisher for personal use.

We also had a song by John Bell that relates mostly to the lesson from Genesis 2, where Woman and Man are made and become “one flesh,” a verse quoted by Jesus in the Gospel (St. Mark 10:2-16). Jesus adds: “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” The song: “Women and men as God intended.” The Hymnary.org page does not include a text. The song may be found in the Iona collection “One is the Body.”

The second painting on the YouTube clip, “Marriage” by Nicholas Poussin, is one of a series that he painted on the Seven Sacraments. They are all worthy of study. Here is the link. He painted the series twice, but some of the paintings were destroyed in a fire in 1816 – thus, there are two versions for some of the Sacraments, and one for the others.