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

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Aria    Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

Processional Hymn 212    Awake, arise, lift up your voice    Richmond

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast    Festival Canticle

Sequence Hymn 182    Christ is alive! Let Christians sing    Truro

Offertory Anthem    My master from a garden rose    Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Text: Gordon Young

My master in a garden lay, perfumed with spices rare,
for tender hands had laid him there to rest amid the roses.
Twas’ on a cross they laid him there, and kissed his hands with nails,
that we would then might live again and be with him in glory.
Alleluia!

My master from a garden rose, to go for us to heaven.
And he will come again to take us there, to be with him forever.
Alleluia! Amen.

Eleanor Daley is a Canadian composer, performer, and accompanist. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Organ Performance from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and holds diplomas in both organ and piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and Trinity College in England. She has been the Director of Music at Fairlawn Heights United Church in Toronto since 1982. During that time she has established a thriving choral program for which much of her choral music has been composed. This lovely anthem was commissioned for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stuart Forster, Director of Music and Organist, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Dedication of the Church, 2011.

Sanctus S125    Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

Fraction Anthem    Christ our Passover    Jeffrey Rickard (b. 1942)

Communion Anthem    God be in my head    Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Words: Sarum Primer, 1514, found at Hymn 694

Communion Hymn 343    Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless    St. Agnes

Closing Hymn    Great is thy faithfulness    Faithfulness

Voluntary    Trumpet Tune in D    David N. Johnson (1922-1987)

David N. Johnson was an American organist, composer, educator, choral clinician, and lecturer. He studied organ and composition at Curtis Institute of Music. Between 1942 and 1946 he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps/Air Corps in India, Burma, and China, receiving a Meritorious Service Award and campaign ribbons. He continued his music studies at Trinity University (Texas) and Syracuse University. In addition to organ works, several hymn tunes are credited to him, including Earth and all stars.