{"id":4068,"date":"2026-03-15T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:11:54","slug":"a-ceremony-of-the-word-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/15\/a-ceremony-of-the-word-for-the-fourth-sunday-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ceremony of the Word for the Fourth Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lent-4th-Sunday-2023.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening Sentence: From Isaiah 66:10.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introit and organ prelude: Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c.1618\u2013c.1701) \u201cKyrie eleison\u201d (<em>Lord, Have Mercy<\/em>), performed by Jozef Sluys, organ, and CapeIIa Sancti MichaeIis; uploaded to YouTube by \u201cPau NG\u201d and used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1-13, King James Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm 23, sung to the hymn tune \u201cCrimond\u201d, Uploaded to YouTube by Christina Iqupen, and used in accordance with Creative Commons license.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anthem: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) \u201cThou Knowest Lord\u201d, available in the public domain courtesy of \u201cFerox Aeternum\u201d at Archive.org.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel: John 9:1-41, World English Bible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord\u2019s Prayer: From Luke.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blessing: \u00a0From Numbers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organ Postlude: \u00a0Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) \u201cToccata in D, BuxWV 144,\u201d performed by Tigran Buniatyan on the Flentrop opus 1974 organ, used in accordance with Creative Commons License.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible passages were recorded by Librivox, and are in the public domain. Readings correspond to the Revised Common Lectionary. All audio files are given with attribution where known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,65,27],"tags":[1391,1436,1468,1262,677,82,1202,1216,1233],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-music","category-underground-church","tag-thou-knowest-lord","tag-abraham-van-den-kerkhoven","tag-crimond","tag-dietrich-buxtehude","tag-feasts-and-seasons","tag-lent","tag-revised-common-lectionary","tag-virtual-church-service","tag-year-a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}