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Jul 26, 2024

Call for Sectionals – 2025 Conference

The Hymn Society is seeking proposals for sectionals (breakout sessions) to be presented at the next Annual Conference to be held July 13-16, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. The conference theme is “We Believe: Faith, Community, and the Holy Act of Singing.” At each conference we hold between 30 and 40 breakout sessions which are chosen […]

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Jun 13, 2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON THE NICENE CREED

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued an invitation to write, compose, and/or arrange a version of the Nicene Creed. The year 2025 will mark 1700 years since the gathering of the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The 6th World Conference of the Faith and Order of the WCC will be held in Egypt […]

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Our Latest Blogs

Oct 01, 2024

REFLECTION OF GOD’S GLORY – Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22, Year B; Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B (RC)

October 6, 2024 Revised Common Lectionary Job 1:1; 2:1-10 or Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 26 or Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 Lectionary for Mass (RC) Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 (see 5) Hebrews 2:9-11 Mark 10:2-12 (13-16) The following reflection is based on today’s Epistle reading from Hebrews. You may view a […]

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Sep 23, 2024

ON OUR SIDE – Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21, Year B; Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B (RC)

September 29, 2024 Revised Common Lectionary Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 or Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Psalm 124 or Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50 Lectionary for Mass (RC) Numbers 11:25-29 Psalm 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 (9a) James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 The disciples of Jesus just can’t catch a break. Immediately before the Gospel […]

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