We are where the light begins. Perhaps it does not begin. Perhaps it is always.
-  text by Jan Richardson from the Susan LaBarr choral composition
"Where the Light Begins"

Guitarist Alan Skowron joins us for both morning services offering his composition "Journey Throughout Life" adapted for organ and electric guitar. We may even "take five" to close our worship time together...

Music for the 11:00 a.m. Confirmation Sunday service was selected in collaboration with the confirmands themselves! The beautiful musical setting of Jan Richardson's text by Susan LaBarr in "Where the Light Begins" will be presented as a duo vocal arrangement by Plymouth Staff Singers Alex Young and Lucas Jackson. Guitarist and vocalist Noah Kayl brings his "Offering" during our communal time of prayer in a song by Paul Baloche. 

On this Earth Day Sunday, we experience music celebrating the wonders of creation while honoring our role as stewards in this world — like shepherds watching over their flock.

At the 9:00 a.m. "eclectic" service, ukulelist Stuart Yoshida joins the chancel musicians in presenting songs from around the world including Jamaica, Hawaii, and the American songbook.

At the 11:00 a.m. traditional service, we hear an ode to the majesty of peaks and valleys from the organ in a lied (German for "song") to the mountains by Belgian composer Flor Peeters. The Chancel Choir are joined by the Plymouth Ringers and violinist Amy Welsh in a setting paraphrasing Psalm 23 utilizing the early American tune "Resignation" by David Ashley White. (As a "pick-up" choir Sunday, feel free to join us for rehearsal at 10:10!) The organ concludes worship with a gigue (a French Baroque dance based on the English jig) on the closing hymn tune "Dix" (sung to the text "For the Beauty of the Earth").

​At 9:00 a.m., vocalist and guitarist Bill DeMarco joins the team for a Celtic and folk-inspired collection of songs rejoicing in the resurrection.
 
At 11:00 a.m., two contemporary organ settings on traditional Easter carols by James Biery are offered. A trio on the 17th century Dutch tune "Vreuchten" ("This Joyful Eastertide") begins the worship hour. A toccata on the 16th century German tune "Gaudeamus Pariter" ("Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain") closes the service. The Chancel Choir sings "A Gaelic Easter Celebration" by Patti Drennan with fiddler Harmony Tucker.

"You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make beautiful things out of us."
- from the song "Beautiful Things" by Michael and Lisa Gungor

On this Second Sunday of Eastertide, we enter into a space of a "quiet joy" — a reflection on the risen Christ and the hope of new life.

Morning worship begins with a meditation on this new life in "Beautiful Things" by Gungor. Vocalists Lucas Jackson and Alex Young with violinist Harmony Tucker present this passionate hymn of promise.

Easter chants from the Taizé Community offer a time of introspection and joyful reflection led by our string quartet of violinists Harmony Tucker and Alex Young, violist Mateo Dunigan-AtLee and cellist Aaron Dunigan-AtLee.

The Paschal celebration concludes with an exuberant Baroque-style setting of the hymn "That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright" by 19th century composer Heinrich von Herzogenberg.