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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Meditation on How Great Thou Art    Janet Linker (b. 1938)

Janet Rupp Linker received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Organ Performance from Capital University and The University of Michigan, respectively. Her first organ position at the age of 15 was at the Wauseon, Ohio, Evangelical Mennonite Church. She has taught organ for a number of years both privately and at the Conservatory of Music at Capital University. She has arranged a number of organ and handbell settings in collaboration with Jane McFadden. For many years she played for various events at the Ohio Theatre, on the well-known “Mighty Morton” theatre organ.

Processional Hymn 290    Come, ye thankful people, come    St. George’s, Windsor

Gloria in excelsis S278    William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn 9    Awake, awake to love and work v 3,4,5    Morning Song

Offertory Music    Let all the world in every corner sing    Ralph Vaughan WIlliams (1872–1958)
Words: George Herbert (1593-1633)

Let all the world, in every corner, sing:
My God and King!
The heavens are not too high, his praise may thither fly.
The earth is not too low, his praises there may grow.
Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and king!

Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and king!
The church with psalms must shout, no door can keep them out;
But, above all, the heart must bear the longest part.
Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and king!

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

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

Communion Anthem    We shall walk through the valley    Spiritual, arr. Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)

We shall walk through the valley in peace;
we shall walk through the valley in peace.

Refrain:
If Jesus himself shall be our leader,
we shall walk through the valley in peace.

There will be no sorrow there;
there will be no sorrow there. Refrain

Undine Eliza Anna Smith Moore, the “Dean of Black Women Composers,” was an American composer and professor of music in the twentieth century. Moore was originally trained as a classical pianist, but developed a compositional output of mostly vocal music—her preferred genre. Much of her work was inspired by black spirituals and folk music. Undine Smith Moore was a renowned teacher, and once stated that she experienced “teaching itself as an art.”

Communion Hymn 339    Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness    Schmucke dich

Hymn in Procession     O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder    How Great Thou Art

Voluntary    Now thank we all our God    Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Virgil Fox (1912-1980)

Bruce Henley, assisting organist