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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Largo from Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”    Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Antonin Dvořák wrote his Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” soon after arriving in America in 1893.  A yearning melody from the second movement took on a new life as a popular American song that continues to be reinvented. One of Dvorak’s students, William Arms Fisher, put words to the longing melody from the second movement. He called the new song, “Goin’ Home,” and had it published 1922. It has been recorded and arranged numerous times since then, and appears frequently in popular culture. The transformation of Dvořák’s music is a fitting legacy for his symphony about the New World, a work with a message that transcends any one culture.  “Instead of being something that’s about only one aspect of our world,” says Yannick Nézet-Séguin, “it’s something that gives a message of unity.”

Silent Procession

Kyrie eleison S-84    Gregorian Chant, Orbis factor

Sequence Hymn 151    From deepest woe I cry to thee    Aus tiefer Not

Offertory Anthem    There is a balm in Gilead    William L. Dawson (1899-1990)
Words may be found at Hymn 676

Sanctus     Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme

Fraction Anthem     Agnus Dei     Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme

Communion Anthem    You are the center    Margaret Rizza (b. 1929)

You are the center, you are my life, you are the center, O Lord, of my life.
Come, Lord and guide me, Lord of my life; send me your spirit, Lord of my life.
Come, Lord and heal me, Lord of my life; come, Lord and teach me, Lord of my life.
Give me your spirit and teach me your ways, give me your peace, Lord, and set me free.
You are the center, you are my life, you are the center, O Lord, of my life.

Born in 1929, Margaret Rizza only began to compose in 1997. Since then she has become a major personality in the world of sacred choral music, with substantial sales of both her printed and recorded music, which includes chart topping Taizé chants. All this followed an illustrious career as an opera singer spanning 25 years, under the name Margaret Lensky, working with conductors such as Britten, Stravinsky and Bernstein.

Communion Hymn 641    Lord Jesus, think on me    Southwell

Hymn in Procession 685    Rock of ages, cleft for me    Toplady

Voluntary    Chaconne    Louis Couperin (1626-1661)