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    Two settings of the Chorale: Jesu meine Zuversicht (Jesus my sure defense)
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
BWV 728    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Processional Hymn 495    Hail, thou once despised Jesus!    In Babilone

Gloria in excelsis S278    William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn 458 vv. 1, 2, 7    My song is love unknown    Love Unknown

Offertory Music    The heavens are telling    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Words: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert based on Psalm 14

The heavens are telling the Lord’s endless glory.
Through all the earth His praise is found.
The seas re-echo the marvelous story:
O man, repeat that glorious sound!
The starry hosts He doth order and number,
He fills the morning’s golden springs,
He wakes the sun from his night-curtain’d slumber;
O man, adore the King of Kings!

The heavens are His and the earth knows His favor,
His power in all things thou dost see;
The Lord of hosts who for ever and ever
Thy God and Father still shall be.
He is thy Maker whose love shall not waver,
A God of wisdom, ever kind;
Praise Him and love Him with all thy endeavor,
In Him salvation shalt thou find.

This choral work by Beethoven masters the expression of religious joy through collective vocal celebration. Written in 1803 with text adapted from Christian Furchtegott Gellert (1715-1769), and originally part of his 6 songs for solo voice and piano, op. 48, this concise composition marvels at the beauty of Nature.

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

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

Communion Motet    Oculi omnium    Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Words: Psalm 144:15

Oculi omnium in te spirant Domine: et tu das illis escam in tempore opportune. Gloria tibi Domine. Amen.
The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. Glory be to thee, O Lord. Amen.

Irish composer Charles Wood studied with Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal College of Music in London, and he would himself become a Professor of Music there, where his pupils would include Ralph Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells. Wood is chiefly remembered for his Anglican church music, but his earlier years brought a number of choral works. He also left half a dozen string quartets, part-songs, solo songs and a series of organ preludes.

 

Communion Hymn 313    Let thy Blood in mercy poured    Jesus, meine Zuversicht

Hymn in Procession 546    Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve    Siroë

Voluntary    Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 121    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
(Praise be to you, Jesus Christ)