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 Air for Organ William B. Cooper (1920-1993)
William B. Cooper was a native of Philadelphia. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Philadelphia College or Performing Arts and a Doctorate of Music from Columbia Pacific University (California). He served on the music faculties of Bennett College (Greensboro, NC) and Hampton University (Hampton, VA) as well as 26 years in the New York City School System. Cooper also served as Minister of Music at historic Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church (1953-74) and Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church (1974-88) in Harlem.
Processional Hymn 450 All hail the power of Jesus’ Name Coronation
Gloria in excelsis S278 William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sequence Hymn 591 O God of earth and altar King’s Lynn
Offertory Music I will sing with the spirit, 2006 David Goodenough (b. 1968)
Words: 1 Corinthians 14: 15; Psalm 96: 1
I will sing with the spirit.
I will sing with the understanding.
O sing unto the Lord a new song.
Sing unto the Lord all the earth.
I will sing with the spirit. Amen.
Sanctus S128 William Mathias
Fraction Anthem S166 Agnus Dei Gerald Near (b. 1942)
Communion Anthem With what shall I come before the Lord Jane Marshall (1924-2019)
Text: Micah 6:6-8
With what shall I come before the Lord when I bow before the God on high?
Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Jane Marshall was a composer of choral music, a hymnist, poet and teacher. A longtime member of the Meadows School of the Arts theory faculty and the Sacred Music graduate faculty at Perkins School of Theology at SMU, she taught in the summer continuing education program there and was active as a clinician for choral organizations around the country. A distinguished alumna of SMU, Jane has been honored twice by the Southern Baptist Musicians Conference and recently by the Fellowship of United Methodist Musicians for her contributions to church music.
Communion Hymn 336 Come with us, O blessed Jesus Werde munter
Hymn in Procession 423 Immortal, invisible, God only wise St. Denio
Voluntary Fugue from Sonata II Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)