Marsh Chapel Sunday Services

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka (University Chaplain for International Students) preaches a sermon entitled "In Service". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Jesu, dulcis memoria” by Josef Rheinberger, and  " Jesu, dulcis memoria" by Pierre Villette.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett  (Director of Music) preaches a sermon entitled "The Bach Experience". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs Cantata "In allen meinen Taten, BWV 97" by J. S. Bach.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Communion Meditation: Sundays, Too". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Kyrie, from Messe “Cum jubilo”, Op. 11" by Maurice Duruflé , " Ubi caritas, op. 10, no. 1" by Maurice Duruflé, and  " Panis angelicus" by Pierre Villette.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "From Fear to Hope". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "This Amazing Day" by Mark Kilstofte, and  " Nunc dimittis" by John Paulson.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "A Liberal Faith". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "When David heard" by Thomas Weelkes, and  " Ich bin das Brot des Lebens" by Wolfram Buchenberg.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Faith and Struggle". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Quam pulchri sunt" by Tomás Luis de Victoria, and  " O quam amabilis es, Op. 71" by Pierre Villette .

Jonathan Byung Hoon Lee, MDiv (Associate Chaplain for Student Outreach) preaches a sermon entitled "Say YES to the free T-shirt". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Jesus, I Adore Thee" by Stephen Caracciolo, and  " We shall walk through the valley in peace" Nun Danket; arr. by John Rutter.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Communion Meditation". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Os justi meditabitur" by Anton Bruckner, "This little light of mine" arranged by Moses Hogan, and  " A New Song" by  James MacMillan.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "A Summer Look to the Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Expectans expectavi" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen" by Johannes Brahms . 

The Rev. Ted Crass (President, The United Methodist Foundation of New England) preaches a sermon entitled "Blessing a Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Ich bin das Brot des Lebens" by Wolfram Buchenberg.

The Rev. Dr. Karen Coleman (University Chaplain for Episcopal Ministry) preaches a sermon entitled "An Act of Love". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "In te speravi" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Ego sum pains vivus" by William Byrd . 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Communion Meditation:  The Food That Endures For Eternal Life". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Precatus est Moyses (Ex. 32:11, 13–14)" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "It is enough & Lift thine eyes (from Elijah )" by Felix Mendelssohn . 

The Reverend Andrew Kimble (Director of Online Lifelong Learning Associate Director of Alumni & Donor Relations, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Boston University School of Theology) preaches a sermon entitled "We’re in This Together". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Exaltabo te Domine" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "My God, I love thee (from the...

The Reverend Dr. Philip Amerson (President Emeritus Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, Illinois) preaches a sermon entitled "Together, as a Dwelling Place". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Justitiae Domini" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Dear Lord and Father of mankind" by C. Hubert H. Parry . 

Jonathan Byung Hoon Lee, MDiv (Associate Chaplain for Student Outreach) preaches a sermon entitled "From Where Do We Stand?". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" by John Amner,  and "Beati quorum via, Op. 38, No. 3" by C. V. Stanford . 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "Facing Rejection". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Populum humilem" by G. P. da Palestrin ,  and "O for a closer walk with God" by C. V. Stanford . 

The Rev. Dr. William B. Lawrence preaches a sermon entitled "For Thine Is...the Power". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "The eyes of all wait upon thee" by Jean Berger ,  and "Sicut in holocaustis" by G. P. da Palestrina . 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a sermon entitled "A Look to the Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Almighty and everlasting God" by Orlando Gibbons,  and "Perfice gressus meos" by G. P. da Palestrina . 

William Cordts, (CAS’07, STH’11, Sunday Bible Study Leader, Marsh Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Seeds for the Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Benedicam Dominum" by G. P. da Palestrina ,  and "Jesus Christ the apple tree" by Elizabeth Poston . 

The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Yoost preaches a sermon entitled "All in the Family!". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Illumina oculos meos" by G. P. da Palestrina ,  and "Locus iste a Deo factus est" by Anton Bruckner . 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "For Us". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs " Sperent in te " by G. P. da Palestrina ,  and " O salutaris Hostia " by Gioachino Rossini . 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "Metaphorical Understanding". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Benedictus sit Deus Pater" by G. P. da Palestrin,  and "Sicut Moses, SWV 68" by Heinrich Schütz . 

Addressing the hundreds gathered in Marsh Chapel for the 2024 Boston University Baccalaureate service, speaker Rev. Walter E. Fluker (GRS’88, STH’88, Hon.’24), Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Ethical Leadership at BU’s School of Theology, warned of today’s “potential for madness—moral, spiritual, psychological, collective chaos,” evidenced in the “social and geopolitical” strife engu...

The Rev. Dr. Karen Coleman preaches a sermon entitled "Love One Another". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Non vos relinquam orphanos" by William Byrd, Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock by Heinrich Schütz) and "Jesu, dulcis memoria" by Tomás Luis de Victoria . 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Jarrett present a joint message on the scholarship and theology of the day's Bach Cantata, entitled "The Bach Experience." The Marsh Chapel Choir performs “O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34" by J.S. Bach along with service music and hymns.