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Yule: December 21
7 p.m. Pacific
You are invited to participate in this shared experience: please sing along any time there are words, comment in the text chat, and join a Zoom meetup immediately after the liturgy. Though physically apart, we gather in this digital space together.
This evening's liturgy is a collaboration between St. Luke's in Renton, WA and St. Andrew's in New London, NH. All the music you'll hear was recorded virtually for Yule by amateur and professional musicians/singers from Washington and New Hampshire.
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About
About Yule
Seasonal liturgy about
St. Luke’s seasonal liturgies began in 2016. Every solstice and equinox, these liturgies use music and poetry, ritual and movement to acknowledge the beauty of the natural world and the interweave of the seasons with our own spiritual lives.
You won’t hear a sermon at these liturgies. There’s no Eucharist, either. Instead, you’ll hear poems by Gary Snyder and John O’Donohue and readings from Marilynne Robinson and John Steinbeck. You’ll find visual art, chant, and meditation from all sorts of cultures and genres. These liturgies create space for a mystical experience of God—something more ethereal than the usual liturgy, more applied than the general artistic world, and more present than our typical relationship with nature.
As for music, traditional hymns make an appearance in some form, alongside other songs not usually found in a church service—songs written by artists like The Byrds or Sweet Honey in the Rock, and performed by musicians from throughout the Pacific Northwest—and this time, throughout the United States. At a typical seasonal liturgy, you might hear anything from gospel singers to banjo players to acapella groups.
Attendees come from Episcopal, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Reformed backgrounds, as well as a number of visitors who don’t claim any faith as their own. All are welcome here.
Collaborators
Collaborators
Yule collaborators
Planning Team
The Rev. Kevin Pearson
The Rev. Jay MacLeod
Jack Barben
Josh deLacy
Video Production
Josh deLacy
Video Footage
Tom Kenison
Jack Barben
Peter Bloch
Jim Friedrich
Reflections
The Rev. Kevin Pearson
The Rev. Jay MacLeod
Music Arranged by
Jack Barben
Solo Vocalists
Kerry Gulbranson
Chava Mirel
Kathy Lowe Bloch
Sayon Camara
Jack Barben
Instrumentalists
Dennis Staskowski
Chuck Hamilton
Jamie Jones
Jack Barben
Chava Mirel
Kathy Lowe Bloch
Sayon Camara
Mel Butler
Dave Brumbaugh
David Ritt
Maria Scherer Wilson
Nicole Densmore
Choir
Alice Perry
Becky Rylander
Daniel Crayne
Trish Lindberg
Mel Butler
Don Cox
Libby Howell
Sue Venable
Linda Barnes
Jane Maynard
Mindy Haynes
Nonie Reynders
Chuck Thompson
Tyler Harwell
Jack Barben
Readers
Ryan Mielcarek
The Rev. Sally Carlson
Kate Kelly
Meetup
Afterparty
Seasonal liturgy afterparty
Join us for a meetup after the liturgy via Zoom. This free and intuitive software may be used on your phone, tablet, and/or computer.
You may also join by using St. Luke’s room code (195-929-940) from within the Zoom app
To see multiple participants at once in a Zoom meeting, switch to “Gallery View.” Depending on your device, the gallery view option will appear in different locations.
On a laptop, it will most appear in the top right corner
On a phone, swipe left from the active speaker view. You can view up to four participants’ video at the same time. You can keep swiping left to view more participants’ video.
On a tablet, it will appear in the upper-left corner. If you do not see the controls, tap your screen to get them to appear.
More detailed instructions (with screenshots) about finding “Gallery View” are available here.
If the video player stalls and/or displays a loading circle, you can usually refresh the page to restore the connection.
If the video doesn’t start on time (due to buffering), you can drag the slider at the bottom of the video player all the way to the right to “catch up.”
If there’s no sound, make sure the sound is unmuted and turned up at the bottom of your screen.
Yule is a collaboration between St. Luke’s in Renton, WA and St. Andrew’s in New London, NH.
St. Luke’s seasonal liturgies began in 2016. Every solstice and equinox, these liturgies use music and poetry, ritual and movement to acknowledge the beauty of the natural world and the interweave of the seasons with our own spiritual lives.
You won’t hear a sermon at these liturgies. There’s no Eucharist, either. Instead, you hear poems by Gary Snyder and John O’Donohue, readings from Marilynne Robinson and John Steinbeck. You find visual art, chant, and meditation from diverse of cultures and genres. These liturgies create space for a mystical experience of God—something more ethereal than the usual liturgy, more applied than the general artistic world, and more present than our typical relationship with nature.
As for music, traditional hymns make an appearance in some form, alongside other songs not usually found in a church service—songs written by artists like The Byrds or Sweet Honey in the Rock, and performed by musicians from throughout the Pacific Northwest—and this time, throughout the United States. At a typical seasonal liturgy, you might hear anything from gospel singers to banjo players to acapella groups.
Attendees come from Episcopal, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Reformed backgrounds, as well as a number of visitors who don’t claim any faith as their own. All are welcome here.
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