Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m., sermon and music by the Rev’d Margie Baker.

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    The peace may be exchanged from Rubrics, 1988    Dan Locklair (b. 1949)

The inspiration for Dan Locklair’s five-movement suite,  Rubrics, was the italicized rubrics (instructions) found within the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Finding power within these simple notes, Dan brings them to life in music. The peace may be exchanged is a beautiful, lyric peace-prayer, using the warm string and diapason sounds of the organ. 

Opening Hymn 400 vv 1,4,7    All creatures of our God and King    Lasst uns erfreuen

Song of Praise 417 vv. 1 & 2    This is the feast    Festival Canticle

Offertory Anthem    Loving spirit    Fiona Vidal-White, arr. John L. Hooker (b. 1944)
Words: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931)
Margie Baker, soloist

Loving Spirit, loving Spirit,
you have chosen me to be;
you have drawn me to your wonder,
you have set your sign on me.

Like a mother, you enfold me,
hold my life within your own.
Feed me with your very body,
form me of your flesh and bone.

Like a father you protect me.
Teach me the discerning eye.
Hoist me up upon your shoulder,
let me see the world from high.

Friend and lover, in your closeness
I am known and held and blest:
in your promise in my comfort,
in your presence I may rest.

Loving Spirit, loving Spirit,
you have chosen me to be;
you have drawn me to your wonder,
you have set your sign on me.

Fiona Vidal-White is a transplanted Brit who, after studying to be a singer for 15 years, moved through church music with children and adults to Christian education and teaching in schools. She has worked in many churches as church musician, Christian educator, and consultant, and currently serves as Director of Christian Formation at the Church of Our Savior in Arlington, MA. She is the author of the hymnal My Heart Sings Out and its companion leader’s guide, designed as a musical resource for all-age worship.

Sanctus S125   Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

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

Closing Hymn 412 vv 1,2,3    Earth and all stars, loud rushing planets    Earth and All Stars

Voluntary    The Prince of Denmark’s March    Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707)