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

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Praeludium    Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)

Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. Throughout his adult life, Kodály was very interested in the problems of many types of music education, and he wrote a large amount of material on teaching methods as well as composing plenty of music intended for children’s use. Beginning in 1935, along with his colleague Jenő Ádám, he embarked on a long-term project to reform music teaching in Hungary’s lower and middle schools. His work resulted in the publication of several highly influential books. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.

Processional Hymn 556    Rejoice, ye pure in heart    Marion

Gloria in excelsis S278    William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn    Precious Lord, take my hand Precious Lord

Offertory Music    Rejoice in the Lord alway     Anonymous, mid-sixteenth century
Words from today’s Epistle lesson

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei    Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Communion Motet    Vidi aquam    Marty Wheeler Burnett (b. 1961)
Words: refers to Ezekiel 47:1

Vidi aquam egredientem de templo, a latere dextro, Alleluia:
Et omnes ad quos pervenit aqua ista, salvi facti sunt,
Et dicent: Alleluia, Alleluia.

I saw water flowing out of the Temple, from its right side, Alleluia:
And all to whom this water came were saved,
And they shall say: Alleluia, Alleluia.

Marty Wheeler Burnett is the Associate Professor of Church Music at Virginia Theological Seminary and President of the Association of Anglican Musicians. She previously served as Canon Precentor at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and as Director of Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Music at College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska. Burnett holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from Rice University and a Doctor of Ministry degree with a focus in liturgical music from The University of the South.

Communion Hymn 316    This is the hour of banquet and of song    Canticum refectionis

Hymn in Procession 7    Christ, whose glory fills the skies    Ratisbon

Voluntary    Prelude in D Major, BWV 532a    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)