Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with the St. John’s Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Todd FitzGerald.

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Prelude for Organ: Tonality of Time    Francesco Blackmore (b. 1991)

Francesco Blackmore was born in Jamaica and came to the United States at the age of fifteen. He attended Manchester Community College and graduated with an Associates degree in Music Studies. He continued his education at Central Connecticut State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors in Music Theory and Composition with Organ Performance focus. Francesco is a member of the American Guild of Organists, Greater Hartford Chapter (AGO), and is currently the Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Collinsville, CT, as well as the Music Director at Connecticut Valley Seventh Day Adventist Church in South Windsor, CT. Scott premiered this work in concert in 2019.

Processional Hymn 410    Praise, my soul, the King of heaven    Lauda anima

Song of Praise    Dignus es    Benjamin P. Straley (b. 1986)

Sequence Hymn    For the fruit of all creation Ar hyd y nos

Offertory Music    Thou God of truth and love    Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)
Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Thou God of truth and love,
We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice to approve,
Thy providence to obey:
Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.

Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place?
And why together brought
To see each other’s face?
To join with softest sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?

Didst thou not make us one,
That we might one remain,
Together travel on,
And bear each other’s pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renewed in perfect love?

O may thy Spirit seal
Our souls unto that day,
With all thy fulness fill,
And then transport away!
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer’s breast!

Sanctus    Land of Rest, arr. Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983)

Fraction Anthem    Be Known to us, Lord Jesus    Gary James (b. 1957)

Communion Motet    O sacrum convivium    Stephanie Martin (b. 1962)
Text: St. Thomas Aquinas

O sacrum convivium, in quo Christus sumitur;
recolitur memoria passionis ejus;
mens impletur gratia;
et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
(Alleluia)
Panem de caelo praestitisti eis
Omnem delectamentum in se habentem.

O sacred banquet, wherein Christ is received;
the memorial of his passion is renewed;
the soul is filled with grace;
and a pledge of future glory is given to us.
(Alleluia)
You gave them bread from heaven
Containing in itself all sweetness.

An award-winning composer and conductor, Stephanie Martin has wide musical interests ranging from Gregorian chant to gamelan; from Froberger to folksong. A guardian of musical heritage and a creative collaborator, she is known for imaginative programming and for creating sustainable musical communities.

Communion Hymn  309    O Food to pilgrims given    O Welt, ich muss dich lassen

Hymn in Procession 541    Come, labor on    Ora Labora

Voluntary    Carillon de Longpont    Louis Vierne (1870-1937)