Holy Eucharist Rite II at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. sung by the Youth and Adult Choirs with brass and timpani, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Carillon de Westminster    Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
(10:30 only) Louis Vierne was organist of Notre-Dame-de-Paris from 1900 until his death while playing a recital in 1937. He was teacher to Marcel Dupré, who eventually taught St. John’s longtime organist Clarence Watters. This voluntary is presented as a prayer for Paris, and for people around the world who find solace and peace in God-given houses of worship.

Introit    Easter people, raise your voices!    Scott Lamlein, 2014
Words: William M. James (1913-2013)

Easter people, raise your voices, sounds of heaven in earth should ring.
Christ has brought us heaven’s choices; heavenly music, let it ring.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Easter people, let us sing.

Processional Hymn 175   Hail thee, festival day!    Salve festa dies
At 8:30, verses 1-4 will be sung.

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast   Festival Canticle
(10:30 only)

Sequence Hymn 199   Come, ye faithful, raise the strain     St. Kevin

Offertory Anthem    Christ the Lord hath triumphed over death    Raymond Weidner (b. 1947)

Christ the Lord has triumphed over death. Alleluia!
The bonds of sin no longer hold us captive. Alleluia!
Therefore, let us live anew: rejecting sin and being perfected by the Holy Spirit
as new creations through our Lord and Savior.
Glory be to him who sets the captive free, and sits upon his heavenly throne forever! Alleluia! 

Sanctus S125   Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

Fraction Anthem    Christ our Passover    Jeffrey Rickard (b. 1942)

Communion Anthem     Alleluia    Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

Communion Hymn 305   Come, risen Lord   Rosedale

Closing Hymn 207    Jesus Christ is risen today   Easter Hymn

Voluntary    Toccata (Symphonie V)    Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Music: The St. John’s Adult Choir (8:00), The Saint John’s Youth and Adult Choirs (10:30)
Organist/Choirmaster: Scott Lamlein
Assisting Organist/Choirmaster: David Chrzanowski
Organ Scholar: Ted Babbitt
Trumpeters: Tom Hintz, Jeff Higgins
Timpani: Kuljit Rehncy