Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Youth & Adult Choirs, sermon by the Rev’d Walter McKenney.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Gigue    Philip James Tummescheit, 2019

Introit   Choristers’ Prayer   Jack Richard Hodkinson, 2015
Words: Sir Sidney Nicholson (1875-1947)

Bless, O Lord, us Thy servants who minister in Thy temple.
Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts,
and what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Processional Hymn 435    At the name of Jesus    King’s Weston

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast   Festival Canticle

Sequence Hymn 483    The head that once was crowned with thorns    St. Magnus

Offertory Anthem    I was glad   C. Hubert. H. Parry (1848-1918)
Words from Psalm 122

I was glad when they said unto me: we will go into the house of the Lord.
Our feet shall stand in thy gates; O Jerusalem, Jerusalem is builded as a city that is at unity in itself.
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces.

This Psalm text was set to music by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry in 1902, and has been sung at every English Coronation since, as well as at the wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate. There is a middle section of the work that can only be performed in the presence of the reigning monarch.

Sanctus S125   Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

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

Communion Anthem     Bread of the world, in mercy broken      John Abdenour (b. 1962)
Words: Reginald Heber (1783-1826), found at Hymn 301

Hymn in Procession 494    Crown him with many crowns    Diademata

Voluntary      Postlude on Diademata     Christa Rakich, 2014