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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Trio: From heaven above to earth I come    Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Veni Emmanuel    Pietro Yon (1886-1943)

Processional Hymn 76    On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry    Winchester New

Kyrie Eleison    from Litany of the Saints    adapt. Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

Sequence Hymn    People, look East    Besancon Carol

Offertory Music  As the pauper waits for plenty    Rosalie Bonighton (1946-2011)
Words: Dolores Dufner, OSB

As the pauper waits for plenty, as the weeping wait for mirth,
as a farmer waits for harvest, as a woman waits for birth, so do I wait for you.
As the blossom waits for springtime and the seed a fertile place,
as an orphan waits for family and a child his mother’s face, so do I long for you.
As a songbird waits for morning and an eaglet waits for flight,
as a flutist waits for music and an artist waits for light, so do I wait for you.
As the homeless long for shelter and the weary for a bed,
as the thirsty long for water and the hungry long for bread, so do I long for you,
so do you long for me.

Rosalie Bonighton was a composer, part-time teacher, and Organist and Music Director at St John the Evangelist Church, Ballarat, Australia.
Her music was influenced by plainchant, British and Celtic folk song, but she was equally interested in the extended harmonic tensions of late German Romanticism, multi-rhythms, jazz harmonies and syncopated effects.

Sanctus    from Missa Emmanuel    Richard Proulx

Fraction Anthem    Agnus Dei    from Missa Emmanuel    Richard Proulx

Communion Anthem    There is no rose of such virtue    Jessica Nelson (b. 1983)
Text: Anonymous, 14th century

There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu;
Alleluia.

For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space;
Res miranda.  (Thing of wonder)

By that rose we may well see
There be one God in persons three,
Pares forma.  (Equal in form)

The angels sungen the shepherds to:
Gloria in excelsis deo:  (Glory to God in the highest)
Gaudeamus.   (Let us rejoice)

Leave we all this worldly mirth,
And follow we this joyful birth;
Transeamus.  (Let us follow)

Jessica Nelson holds degrees from Millsaps College and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, as well as the Colleague Certificate from the American Guild of Organists. She currently serves as organist/choirmaster of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, MS. She directs the Mississippi Conference on Church Music and Liturgy, which draws participants from all over the United States and from beyond the Episcopal Church. In 2015, she was appointed to the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church in the United States and also serves on the board of the Leadership Program for Musicians. Jessica has taught on the music faculties of the University of North Alabama and Northeast MS Community College and composes in her spare time.

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

Hymn in Procession 72    Hark! the glad sound! the Savior comes    Richmond

Voluntary    Praeludium on From heaven above    Johann Pachelbel