“Roses or chocolates may be fine as gifts for Valentine’s Day this week, but a real gift you can give someone or yourself is to show through action that, ‘I want you to live,’” he says.

The service will mark Transfiguration Sunday.

The Chapel will hold two services with imposition of ashes on February 14, at 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

The Jazz Vespers service on Thursday, February 8, at 7:00 p.m. combines the liturgy of evening prayer with the music of jazz.

With a theme of "Music for Candlemas," the concert will present two cantatas and a motet by J. S. Bach, and a cantata by Johann Kuhnau.

The Rev. Bruce Puckett, assistant dean of the Chapel, will give the sermon, and the Chapel Choir and organists will lead the music.

"You might be experiencing tough times, your own wilderness," he says, "But I hope you don’t miss the deacons of God in your midst."

We will hear from Student Action with Farmworkers, a group that empowers farmworkers and students.

His performance on the Chapel's Flentrop organ will include music by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Hailstork.

Dr. Anton Armstrong, Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, will lead the music for the service.