Year A Easter Sunday

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A Fifth Sunday in Lent

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A Fourth Sunday in Lent

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A Third Sunday in Lent

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A Second Sunday in Lent

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Year A First Sunday in Lent

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Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church, date

Four Variations on "Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word" (Erhalt, uns Herr), Jacob B. Weber, Organ Impressions for the Church Year, Augsburg Fortress, Prelude, Tony Cruz, St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida USA, 03/01/2020

Ein feste Burg is unser Gott, Johann Pachelbel, 80 Chorale Preludes, C. F. Peters, Postlude, Tony Cruz, St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 03/01/2020

O Christ, You Walked the Road (Southwell), Timothy Shaw, Timothy Shaw Music, Prelude, Dennis Zimmer, St. Paul' Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lockport, Illinois, USA, 03/01/2020

O Lord, Throughout these Forty Days (Caithness), Healey Willan, 36 Short Preludes and Postludes (Set 1), C. F. Peters, postlude, Dennis Zimmer, St. Paul' Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lockport, Illinois, USA, 03/01/2020

Year A Ash Wednesday

Readings
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51:1-17
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Year A Transfiguration of Our Lord

Readings
Exodus 24:12-18
Psalm 2
2 Peter 1:16-21
Matthew 17:1-9

Year A Sundays After Epiphany/Lectionary 6

Readings:
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 or Sirach 15:15-20
Psalm 119:1-8
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Matthew 5:21-37

Year A Sundays After Epiphany/Lectionary 5

Readings:
Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 112:1-9
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
Matthew 5:13-20

Selections

“Beach Spring” (Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service), Wayne L. Wold, Augsburg Organ Library: Lent, Augsburg Fortress, prelude, Tony Cruz, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

"Lobe den Herren" (Praise to the Lord, the Almighty), Paul Manz, God of Grace: A Collection of Favorites for Organ, MorningStar Music Publishers, postlude, Tony Cruz, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

"Lux Aurumque" (played on organ), Eric Whitacre, Collection for SATB Chorus Unaccompanied, Music Sales America, prelude, Peter Douglas, First Presbyterian Church, Muncie, IN, USA

I would love for all organists to participate in this blog. Here's how:https://organvols.blogspot.com/2020/02/how-to-use-and-participate-in-this-blog.html

How to Use and Participate in this Blog

Welcome to Organ Voluntaries for the Lectionary!

If you’re a church organist, I hope this will become a favorite new tool! Some Sundays it’s difficult to decide what to play for the prelude, offering, or postlude. There are tools out there, but most of them tend to be centered on a particular publisher or denomination. I hope this little corner of cyberspace will be a good additional resource.

Each week, organists around the world are invited to share their voluntary choices with the rest of us. Each Sunday of the three year Revised Common Lectionary will have a post for its day. Examples are:

Year A Advent 1

Year C Sundays after Epiphany/Lectionary 5

Year B Baptism of Our Lord

Each post will have the readings for the day at the top, and voluntaries will be listed. You may supply the voluntaries you played for a particular Sunday in the comments (to be added to the post by me) or submit them by email.

Please post in this format:

Title, composer/arranger, collection, publisher, location in service, name of organist, name of church, location of church

If your voluntary is based on a hymntune, please name the tune then put the title of the hymn you had in mind in parentheses.

Example:

“Beach Spring” (Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service), Wayne L. Wold, Augsburg Organ Library: Lent, Augsburg Fortress, prelude, Tony Cruz, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Our nomenclature may vary, but please use “prelude” for a piece played at the beginning of the service, “offering” for a piece played while a collection is taken or somewhere in the middle of the service, and “postlude” for a piece played at the end of a service.

Also, please limit your selections to ORGAN voluntaries. (Piano voluntaries are lovely, but this page is for organ literature. I would love for someone else to start a piano version of this blog, maybe a choral version too!)

I also plan to pull information from online bulletins of some of my favorite organists and churches.

If you’d like to send a picture of yourself, or the console you play, that will only add to the fun!

Thank you for your participation!
 

Note: There is not currently a post for every day of the lectionary. I will add each week as we progress through the church year.