Category Archives: Music

The Lord’s Prayer (Cornucopia of Heaven)

The Lord’s Prayer After Otto Nicolai, “Pater noster, Op. 33”  Our Father – the heavens are Your home, earth Your tent,          and yet            You are a Father.           Teach our fickle hearts,       our yelling hearts,            to still, to stop to look upon               Your glory, high                                and lifted up. Our Father who         our FatherContinue reading “The Lord’s Prayer (Cornucopia of Heaven)”

Assurance (Cornucopia of Heaven)

Assurance After Giovanni Gabrieli, “Exultavit Cor Meum”   From depths,             from brokenness, the trumpet sounds, the trumpet                         sounds the new,             it sounds the dawn                         of low made high.                                     Exalt, my heart!             My heart exalts.                         My eyes will see,                                     my ears will hearContinue reading “Assurance (Cornucopia of Heaven)”

Kyrie (Cornucopia of Heaven)

Kyrie After Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, “Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie”   From earth, from soil, from hearts, from fractures              Kyrie               Kyrie From death, from fire, from quake, from anguish                           Kyrie               Kyrie From drought that blocks, from self that locks                        Kyrie eleison From sin, from toil, from pride, from hate             Christe             Christe FromContinue reading “Kyrie (Cornucopia of Heaven)”

Esurientes implevit bonis (After J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in E-flat)

Two women who knew the truth of a God who exalts the humble were Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel. Both were unlikely mothers, one a virgin, the other barren and ridiculed by her husband’s other wife, Penninah. When Mary heard the news that she was bearing theContinue reading “Esurientes implevit bonis (After J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in E-flat)”

Confessional Hymn, After Gavin Bryars’ “Cadman Requiem” (Cornucopia of Heaven)

  Confessional Hymn After Gavin Bryars, “Cadman Requiem”   We were not there when stars were flung wide, wide,     across the vast expanse. We were not there when hearts were knit,             when breath was breathed inside. We were not there when plans were made,             when laws      in hearts were broken. YetContinue reading “Confessional Hymn, After Gavin Bryars’ “Cadman Requiem” (Cornucopia of Heaven)”

Psalm: Creation (The Cornucopia of Heaven)

Psalm: Creation After Joseph Haydn, “Die Schöpfung: Erster Teil” Why all these bodies, and why should persons be able to communicate with each other? And why trees and earth and water and fire and wind and lions and lambs and lilies and birds and bread and wine? (John Piper, This Momentary Marriage)

Collects: Sparrows (After Knut Nystedt and Anathallo)

Collects: Sparrows After Knut Nystedt, “Prayers of Kierkegaard, Pt. 3: Great Are You, O God” and Anathallo, “Sparrows” I. When under the arch of heaven I stand surrounded by the wonders of creation, I rapturously and adoringly praise your greatness, you who lightly hold the stars in the infinite and concern yourself fatherly with theContinue reading “Collects: Sparrows (After Knut Nystedt and Anathallo)”

Psalm: Chorale (The Cornucopia of Heaven)

Early on Saturday morning, the fire brigade was called to my church – a 150-year-old heritage-listed building on the corner of one of Melbourne’s most iconic streets, and the building which my fiancée and I recently booked to celebrate our marriage. That day, the Bible reading my church family was looking at in our devotional timesContinue reading “Psalm: Chorale (The Cornucopia of Heaven)”