Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d William Eakins.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Three Legends     Carson Cooman, 2018
Adagio – Lento molto – Adagio molto, espressivo

Carson Cooman (b. 1982) is a Boston composer with a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms—from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes. His music has been performed on all six inhabited continents in venues that range from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the basket of a hot air balloon. 

Processional Hymn 665    All my hope on God is founded    Michael

The original words of this hymn, “Meine Hoffnung stehet feste,” were written in around 1680 by Joachim Neander. In 1899 these were translated into English by Robert Bridges, who would later become British Poet Laureate. The hymn’s popularity increased when its pairing with the tune Michael by the English composer Herbert Howells became more widely known. Howells’ son, Michael, born in 1925, had died in childhood in 1935 from spinal meningitis. It is believed that shortly after this, in 1936, Howells received a request for a new hymn tune in the morning’s post, and he is said to have written the tune, which he named after his late son, over breakfast.

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn    Are ye able    Beacon Hill