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

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Choral    Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)

Processional Hymn 56    O come, O come, Emmanuel    Veni, veni Emmanuel

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

Sequence Hymn 640    Watchman, tell us of the night    Aberystwyth

Offertory Music    My eyes for beauty pine    Elizabeth Coxhead (b. 1987), Thomas Coxhead (b. 1993)
Text: Robert Bridges (1844-1930)

My eyes for beauty pine, my soul for Goddes grace,
No other care or hope is mine, to heaven I turn my face.

One splendour thence is shed from all the stars above;
‘Tis named when God’s name is said, ’tis love, ’tis heavenly love.

And every heart that burns with true desire,
Is lit from eyes that mirror part of that celestial fire.

Elizabeth Coxhead is an Assistant Producer for BBC Radio 3 and is part of the editorial team for International Women’s Day. Elizabeth started her music education as a chorister at Chester Cathedral. She sang for Jeremy Summerly at St Luke’s Chelsea, London, for ten years and it was the latter’s championing her pieces that we have to thank for its current circulation.

Thomas Coxhead is currently the Assistant Organist at Ripon Cathedral as well as a teacher at Harrogate Ladies’ College. Tom’s musical education also began as a chorister at Chester Cathedral and he later held posts at Brecon and Ripon cathedrals and Ampleforth College. Tom’s compositions have enjoyed a number of performances including those which he has composed collaboratively with his sister, Elizabeth.

Sanctus    from Missa Emmanuel    Richard Proulx

Fraction Anthem    Agnus Dei    from Missa Emmanuel    Richard Proulx

Communion Anthem I wonder as I wander    arr. John Jacob Niles (1892-1980)
Appalachian folksong

I wonder as I wander out under the sky,
How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die
For poor on’ry people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander out under the sky.

When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cow’s stall,
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all.
But high from God’s heaven, a star’s light did fall,
And the promise of ages it then did recall.

If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing,
A star in the sky or a bird on the wing.
Or all of God’s Angels in heaven to sing,
He surely could have it, ’cause he was the King.

John Jacob Niles was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the “Dean of American Balladeers,” Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others, recording his songs.

Communion Hymn 324    Let all mortal flesh keep silence    Picardy

Hymn in Procession 57    Lo! He comes, with clouds descending    Helmsley

Voluntary    Fugue in C Major, BWV 545b    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)