The bell in the steeple of the Memorial Church will ring Sunday in remembrace of those lost to the pandemic. Photos by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications.
By Jeffrey Blackwell Memorial Church Communications
The bell of Memorial Church will ring 22 times following services on Sunday, each strike a solemn remembrance for every 10,000 Americans, and every 50,000 or more worldwide, who have lost their lives to Covid-19. (See Commemoration here)
Recorded in 2012 by the Harvard University Choir, the hymn “For the Splendor of Creation.” The tune Thaxted was adapted by the English composer Gustav Holst from the “Jupiter” movement of his symphonic work The Planets, Op. 32, written during World War One. Author Carl P. Daw, who served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada from 1996 to 2009, wrote this text celebrating academic communities specifically for Holst’s stirring melody.
The Pilgrimage Blessing, adapted from the epigraph to Kerry Egan’s Fumbling: "A Journey of Love, Adventure, and Renewal on the Camino de Santiago, 2004," which quotes from the "Missal of Vich, 1038." The blessing is read by Larry Jia, Tara Deonauth, Sarah Fleming, Elizabeth Propst, Alden Fossett, Alanna Sullivan, Esther Lawrence, Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara, Alex Grayson, Wes Conn, Kara Evans and Stephanie Paulsell.
Preacher: The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate Minister, The Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Sermon by Wilson Hood MDiv '19, Hospice Chaplain at Hope Health in Providence, R.I, November 15, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Wilson Hood.)
The bell in the steeple of the Memorial Church will ring Sunday in remembrace of those lost to the pandemic. Photos by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church Communications.
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