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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Have mercy on me, O Lord God

Silent Procession

Kyrie eleison S-84    Gregorian Chant, Orbis factor

Sequence 393    Hymn Praise our great and gracious Lord    Maoz Zur

Offertory Anthem    Create in me a clean heart, O God    Carl Mueller (1892-1982)
Words: Psalm 50:10–13

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me, uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will be converted unto thee.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.

Sanctus     Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme

Fraction Anthem     Agnus Dei     Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme

Communion Anthem    When rooks fly homeward    Arthur Baynon (1889-1954)
Text: Joseph Campbell (1879-1944)

When rooks fly homeward
And shadows fall,
When roses fold
On the hay-yard wall,
“When blind moths flutter
By door and tree,
Then comes the quiet
Of Christ to me.

When stars look out
On the Children’s Path,
And grey mists gather
On earn and rath,
When night is one
With the brooding sea,
Then comes the quiet
Of Christ to me.

Arthur Baynon was born in Bristol, England, and educated at the Cathedral School and University there. He was later appointed Music Master at Truro College, and was afterwards Organist and Music Master (1913-1916) at St. Michael’s College, the school for English church music. After four years in service in the first World War, he became Director of Music at Caterham School.

Communion Hymn    My faith looks up to thee    Olivet

Hymn in Procession 473    Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim    Crucifer

Voluntary    Fugue in C minor, BWV 549b    Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor, and thousands of keyboard works, especially organ. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Certainly one of the most influential composers, none of the music we know today would exist without his innovations.