Sunday, June 15th
National Indigenous Peoples Day
KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
KINCARDINE, ONTARIO
Knox Kincardine Prime Time will be held on Sunday, June 22, starting at 4P.M. The children’s Spark Bible starts Genesis 2 with the sentence “After creating the world, God looked around and was very happy”. In this light, we will make it our theme to get outdoors and enjoy the world that God has given us. So come prepared for outdoor fun and activities! Caution: water may be involved! To wrap up the program we will sit down together to enjoy a barbeque supper. Hope to see you there.
Please respond by Wednesday, June 18 to [email protected] or [email protected] to let us know if you will be attending.
KMS will be meeting at the home of Cathy Ellis, 618 Huron Terrace, at 12:00 noon on Thursday, June 24 for a potluck picnic lunch. Please plan to share food and fellowship at this time of year of growth and renewal.
Wanted! 12-15 enthusiastic cooks to sign up to prepare pulled pork and another 12-15 bakers to each make a dozen cookies for the annual Pulled Pork on a Bun fundraiser slated for Saturday, July 5!
Pork Cooks will need a crockpot big enough to slow cook about 4.5lbs of pork, a little honey and some willingness to PULL! The recipe and other ingredients will be provided for you when you pick up the pork on Wednesday July 2. You will need a full day to cook, another to let it cool and a third to “pull” it ahead of bringing it – heated – to Knox on the Saturday morning, July 5.
Cookie Bakers: think of a recipe which will nicely round out the Pulled Pork meal, then prepare a dozen (or more if you wish!) to bring to Knox on the Saturday morning, July 5. Any left-over cookies will be served at Sunday coffee / lemonade time.
Helpers will be needed on Saturday, July 5 for set-up (tables & chairs, napkins & plates; cups and glasses); beverage preparation; serving; clean-up! Sign-up sheet will be in the Narthex on Sunday, the church office from Monday-Friday, 9AM-Noon or use the contact details in your directory to phone or email Wendy directly.
Last year, this fundraiser generated more than $1,200 for Knox – let’s see what we can do, this year!!
Please join us for our annual Kirkin O The Tartans service on Sunday, July 6 beginning at 10:30AM. Our special guest minister will be The Reverend Kathy Fraser. Music to be provided by the Knox choir as well as the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band. If you wish to place flowers in the sanctuary on that Sunday in memory of loved ones, please contact the church office.
The Card Writers will not be getting together as a group in June. Instead, if you have a name for someone who needs a card, please contact Barb Stuart or Margaret Weir. Our next meeting together will be Tuesday, July 8.
CHECK YOUR MAILBOX!……the Card Writing group will now be using the mailboxes all located on the east side of the Sanctuary. Please check your FAMILY box, by last name, for a special message as part of our Mission of Caring.
Thank you to my Knox family,
Thank you for your prayers & best wishes on my recent accident. I am happy to report I am home and recovering very well with the help of a walker. I am looking forward to attending Church again in the near future.
Love Joan Threndyle
The Walker House is having a Remembrance Day exhibit, where we need local submissions. We are accepting submissions until Tuesday, September 30th. Please contact The Walker House at 519-396-1850 for further information for submissions.
UPCOMING KNOX EVENTS
H&H Trio – in concert at Knox on Friday, June 27 at 7PM. Tickets are $20 and available from the Church Office, The Loop downtown or at the door.
PULLED PORK ON A BUN, at Knox on Saturday, July 5 – Noon to 2PM, by donation.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Walker House Strawberry Social on Saturday, June 21. For tickets email: [email protected] or call: 519-396-1850. $10 for strawberries, cake and coffee; $5 for strawberry sundae. Plus the Ripples, a local barbershop quartet, is performing live at 1PM.
Tiverton Knox is holding hamburger and sausage BBQs every third Monday. Freewill donations.
Amish Community Fundraiser at the Kuepfer Farm on Thursday, August 28. Bake Sale @ 3PM followed by Supper 4-6PM includes BBQ chicken; dressing; mashed potatoes; mixed veggies; coleslaw; veggies & dip; pies for dessert. Quilt Auction at 6PM. Please contact Wendy with any questions, and directions and car-pooling details.
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Greeter and Elevator List
June 22
Carol B. (Greeter)
Bob (Elevator)
June 29
Bev (Greeter)
Rosie (Elevator)
Thanks to all who volunteer every Sunday!
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Canada Helps website www.canadahelps.org/en/donate ~ Type in Knox Kincardine ~ click on “Knox Kincardine (Presbyterian)” to donate.
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H & H Trio in Concert
As its second musical concert for 2025, Knox Church Kincardine is pleased to host the H & H Trio which has some of the best vocalists and musicians in Bruce County. The trio made up of sopranos Liz Coates and Erin Milley-Patey and baritone John Low have a wide-ranging repertoire of songs. From pop, sacred tunes, international and Canadian folk songs, opera trios and jazz, the group’s love for music and desire to entertain translates to a memorable evening of music.
The trio enjoy the opportunity to sing a cappella plus close harmonies with accompaniment. To enhance their performance, the dynamite piano team of Adrian Little and Christine Edwards bring their varied repertoire of four hands works for both one and two pianos at their fingertips. And together the group excel in five-part a cappella songs.
The concert will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church (345 Durham Street, Kincardine) on Friday, June 27 from 7 to 9 PM. Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased at the church from 9AM to Noon (Monday to Friday), at The Loop on Queen Street or at the door.
As part of our on-going commitment to community service, throughout 2025 Knox Church will provide supporting donations to much-needed local and county-wide organizations such as the Kincardine Food Bank, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Women’s House Serving Bruce & Grey, the Knox Scholarship Fund for a graduating student entering a social science program and the United Way Back Pack Program.
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From the Organ Bench – Sunday, June 15th
This is my fourth last writing to you. My last Sunday is July 6, the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan service on the Scottish Festival weekend. The prelude this week in entitled “Jesu, Meine Freude” (“Jesus, My Joy”) by J. S. Bach. This excerpt is not taken from his motet of the same name, BWV 227. Rather, the arranger, Mr. S. Drummond Wolff, should have given the piece it’s more familiar title “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”. This is the most common English title of a piece of music derived from a chorale setting of the cantata “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” BWV 147 (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life“), composed by Bach in 1723. You will probably recognize these words that are in some hymnbooks, but unfortunately, not ours at the current time:
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring,
Holy wisdom, love most bright;
Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring
Soar to uncreated light.
The melody and other elements have been used in several pop and classical crossover recordings:
“Wicked Annabella”, a 1968 track on The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
“Joy”, a 1972 instrumental by Apollo 100 which reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 24 in the RPM Canadian chart.
“Lady Lynda”, a 1979 song by The Beach Boys with Sterling Smith on harpsichord.
“Dormi dormi”, a 2019 track on the extended album Si by Andrea Bocelli, a lullaby inspired by the chorale, sung by Bocelli and Jennifer Garner in Italian and English.
You can find all of these on YouTube. I would recommend the Bocelli to you (who knew Jennifer Garner could sing?). I do remember hearing the Apollo 100 version back in my university days. If you listen to the Beach Boys one, try the remastered 2000 version rather than the original 1979 one. I wouldn’t bother listening to the Kinks – just my opinion!
There are several great versions of the true Bach piece on YouTube as well, with choir and orchestra. One of my favourites is the one uploaded by stephenykevin (March 24/07) with the solo violin at the start and then the two sopranos. It is quite exquisite.
For my prelude, however, I play the running introduction part on the Swell (upper keyboard) using the 8’ Stopped Diapason and 8’ Viola da Gamba stops. The chorale melody then is played with the left hand on the Great (lower keyboard) using the 8’ Open Diapason, the 8’ Melodia and the 4’ Harmonic Flute, so the melody can be heard over the upper “running” countermelody. Part way through, the melody switches to the right hand on the Great, with the left hand playing the countermelody on the Swell. It then switches back with the left hand playing the melody on the Great and the right hand continuing to play the high “running” bits. The pedal stops used are the 8’ Bass Flute, the 16’ Gedeckt, and the 16’ Bourdon. The prelude is a bit longer this week, but I hope you enjoy it!
The anthem this morning is by a Canadian composer, Nancy Telfer and is entitled “Come, Holy Spirit, Come”. It is a very fitting piece for Pentecost and we have not done it since 2019! It has both organ and piano accompaniment and I pre-recorded the organ part so that I could conduct the choir from in front. Telfer was born in Brampton in 1950 and I met her at UWO in the 1970’s. She has composed more than three hundred works for orchestra and solo instruments, with concentration in choral ensembles and solo voice. This anthem includes words written by Helen Keller.
The offertory today is from our Book of Praise, # 386 – “Come Down, O Love Divine“. This hymn is usually sung for the festival of Pentecost. It makes reference to the descent of the Holy Spirit as an invocation to God to come to into the soul of the believer. The text of “Come down, O Love Divine” originated as an Italian poem, “Discendi amor santo” by the medieval mystic poet Bianco da Siena (1350-1399). The poem appeared in the 1851 collection Laudi Spirituali del Bianco da Siena of Telefora Bini and in 1861, the Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer Richard Frederick Littledale translated it into English. The first publication of the English version was in Littledale’s 1867 hymn book The People’s Hymnal.
For the hymn’s publication in The English Hymnal of 1906, the hymnal’s editor Ralph Vaughn Williams composed a tune, “Down Ampney“, which he named after the Gloucestershire village of his birth. This publication established the hymn’s widespread popularity. When Vaughan Williams died in 1958, “Come Down, O Love Divine” was sung at his funeral in Westminster Abbey as the composer’s ashes were ceremonially interred in the Musicians’ Corner.
The postlude is the “Trumpet Voluntary” by Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 – 1 December 1707). Clarke was one of the pupils of John Blow at St Paul’s Cathedral and a chorister in 1685 at the Chapel Royal. Between 1692 and 1695 he was an organist at Winchester College, then between 1699 and 1704 he was an organist at St Paul’s Cathedral. He later became an organist and ‘Gentleman extraordinary’ at the Chapel Royal, he shared that post with fellow composer William Croft, his friend. Clarke is buried in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral. Today, Clarke is best remembered for a popular keyboard piece that was originally either a harpsichord piece or a work for wind ensemble: “The Prince of Denmark’s March”, which is commonly called the “Trumpet Voluntary”, written in about 1700. From c. 1878 until the 1940s, the work was attributed to Henry Purcell. Clarke’s piece is a popular choice for wedding music, and has been used in royal weddings. The piece is written in AABA CCAA form. I start the A section with every stop on the Great and I couple the Swell stops down to the Great as well at a crescendo of 8. The right hand plays the melody on the Great and the left hand plays on the Swell using the 8’ Open and Stopped Diapasons, the Viola da Gamba 8’, the Aeoline 8’ and the Flute 4’ stops. I also have all the pedal stops on – the Resultant 32’, the Bourdon 16’, the Gedeckt 16’, the Bass Flute 8’, the Cello 8’, the Oboe 4’ as well as coupling the Great and Swell stops to the pedal board. On the repeat of the A section, I bring the left hand down to the Great as well for more brightness. For B, the left hand is back on the Swell and then back down to the Great for the next repeat of A. The middle section (C) is a little quieter with both hands on the Swell, but both hands switch to the Great for the repeat of C. When the A section comes back for its final time, it’s a simple two-part expression played on the Great. Then the last repeat is pretty much full organ with both hands on the Great. At the end, the crescendo is at 12 (max is 16) so it’s not quite all the sound it will make – sometimes enough is enough! I know that I played this piece back in February, but I only have four weeks left with you and wanted to play some of my favourites in my last month!
(I used Wikipedia as my source for the biographical information.)
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Contact Information
Minister of Word and Sacrament:
The Rev. Dan West
519-386-0962
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Wade Gibson
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M. J. (Jim) Prenger
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Andy Fraser
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Margaret Weir
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