Covenant Houston Podcast

This Sunday, April 15, was the first day of Rev. Laura Mayo's sabbatical. Covenant members performed a dramatic reading of Bill Martin's "Second Comings." 

"The primary inspiration for this playlet was A. J. Langguth's Jesus Christs, a 1968 novel comprising a number of vignettes of the sort included in the performance. I do not have easy access to that book, but I have note cards from a considerably longer (and seriously dated) performance that I gave at Covenant in the 1970s in which I acknowledged a significant debt to the Langguth book, claiming approximate originality for only about 50 percent credit of the remainder. In the current version, I estimate that at least a third of the scenes are borrowed directly from that book, though condensed and tweaked, and that other lines may or may not be, or may come from poems, cartoons, or irreverent companions. As I noted in the introduction, I have mused on such scenes since childhood."

Players included: Jim Avera, Jodi Bash, Ruddy Cravens, Bill Martin, and Shannon Stewart.

Nancy Henry read the opening Call to Worship; the poem: "Heaven on Earth" by Kristin Berkey-Abbott from, Whistling Past the Graveyard. Pudding House Publications, 2004. Bill Martin read the scripture lesson.

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The scripture lessons for Sunday, April 8 were 1 Kings 19:11-12 and John 20:24-29. Susan Yarbrough was our guest proclaimer.

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Our scripture lesson for Easter Sunday, April 1, was Mark 16:1-8. Rev. Laura Mayo gave the proclamation. Our congregation sang the "Halleluajah Chorus" from The Messiah. 

Rev. Mayo's sermon was also published in the Houston Chronicle on Easter. It can be read online here.

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This is the recording of Rev. Laura Mayo's proclamation from Palm/Passion Sunday, March 25. The scripture lessons were readings from Mark for each day of Holy Week.

Sunday: Mark 11:1-11

Monday: Mark 11:14-19

Tuesday: Mark 11:20–13:37

Wednesday: Mark 14:1-11

Thursday: Mark 14:12–14:72

Friday: Mark 15:1-47

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This is the entire recording of the Tenebrae or Good Friday service that Covenant held on Sunday, March 18th. The service consists of music and readings from Mark chapter 15.

The order of worship from the service can be found online here: https://www.covenanthouston.org/worship-orders.html. 

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On Sunday, March 11, we reflected on Thursday of Holy Week. Included in this week's recording:

A duet of "Panis Angelicus" by Cesar Frank, the scripture lesson Mark 14:22-72, Rev. Laura Mayo giving the proclamation, and the choir singing "Pange Lingua" by Anton Bruckner. 

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This Sunday, March 4, we reflected on Wednesday of Holy Week. The Covenant Choir sang "Os Justi" by Anton Bruckner. Laura Mayo gave the proclamation. Our scripture lesson was Mark 14:1-11.

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The scripture lesson for Sunday, February 25 was Mark 12:1-17, 28-34. We reflected on Tuesday of Holy Week.

Laura Mayo gave the proclamation. The choir sang “O Lord, Increase My Faith” by Orlando Gibbons.

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On this Sunday, February 18, we reflected on Palm Sunday and Monday of Holy Week.

The Choir sang "Send Out Thy Light" by M. A. Balakireff.

Our scripture lesson was Mark 11:1-11, 15-19.

The piano soloist (a Covenant youth) played "Improvisation No. 15 in C minor" by Francis Poulenc.

Rev. Laura Mayo gave our proclamation God's Justice.

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The scripture lesson for Evolution and Transfiguration Sunday was Mark 9:2-9. Rev. Laura Mayo gave the proclamation. 

Eric Avera was the soloist who sang "Serenity" by Charles Ives. The Covenant Choir sang "Who Is This?" by John Ferguson, with violaist Jacy Grannis.

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