Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Youth & Adult Choirs; sermon by The Rev’d Helen M. Moore.
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Service Music:
Organ Voluntary Savior of the nations, come Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude on Veni Emmanuel Pietro Yon (1886-1943)
Processional Hymn 56, vv. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 O come, O come, Emmanuel Veni, veni Emmanuel
Kyrie Eleison from Litany of the Saints adapt. Richard Proulx (1937-2010)
Sequence Hymn 324 Let all mortal flesh keep silence Picardy
Offertory Anthem I wonder as I wander Carl Rütti, 2001
Words: John Jacob Niles (1892-1980)
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die
For poor on’ry people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander out under the sky
When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cow’s stall
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all
But high from God’s heaven, a star’s light did fall
And the promise of ages it then did recall.
If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing
A star in the sky or a bird on the wing
Or all of God’s Angels in heaven to sing
He surely could have it, ’cause he was the King
The text and more familiar tune of “I wonder” was collected by John Jacob Niles in Murphy, NC in July 1933 from a young traveling evangelist Annie Morgan. According to Niles, he asked her to sing the song repeatedly until he had memorized it. It was published in his 1934 Songs of the Hill-Folk. Written in a minor key, it’s qualities of pensiveness make it one of today’s most popular carols. This contemporary arrangement by Swiss composer Carl Rütti was first performed at Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge, in 2002.
Sanctus from Missa Emmanuel Richard Proulx
Fraction Anthem Agnus Dei from Missa Emmanuel Richard Proulx
Communion Anthem My Lord is come Will Todd, 2010
Words by the composer
Shepherds, called by angels, called by love and angels:
No place for them but a stable.
My Lord has come.
Sages, searching for stars, searching for love in heaven;
No place for them but a stable.
My Lord has come.
His love will hold me, his love will cherish me, love will cradle me.
Lead me, lead me to see him, sages and shepherds and angels;
No place for me but a stable.
My Lord has come.
Post-communion Anthem He owns the cattle on a thousand hills John W. Peterson, 1948
Words from from Psalm 50:10
Sung by the Church School
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Closing Hymn in Procession 57 Lo! He comes, with clouds descending Helmsley
Voluntary Toccata from Symphony No. 5 Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
The “Widor Toccata” is arguably the second-famous of all organ works (just behind the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor). The first of the great French toccatas to take literally the title (meaning “touch”), it is a whirlwind of chords and arpeggios with a pedal melody that travels through many keys. And, it is pure joy!
Cantor: John Nowacki
Church School Songleader: Heidi Tummescheit