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    March on a theme by Handel    Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

Processional Hymn 379    God is love: let heaven adore him    Abbott’s Leigh

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast    Festival Canticle

Sequence Hymn    O blessed spring    Berglund

Offertory Anthem    God to enfold me    David Kelley
Text: from Carmina Gadelica

God to enfold me,
God to surround me,
God in my speaking,
God in my thinking.

God in my sleeping,
God in my waking,
God in my watching,
God in my hoping.

God in my life,
God in my lips,
God in my soul,
God in my heart.

God in my sufficing,
God in my slumber,
God in mine ever-living soul,
God in mine eternity.

David Kelley is Minister of Music at Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, Virginia, where he serves as organist and director of an intergenerational choral program. He has a Doctorate in Organ Performance from Peabody Conservatory; degrees in Music Theory, Composition, and Liturgical Music; and professional certificates from the American Guild of Organists. Dr. Kelley has served on the faculties of training courses for the Royal School of Church Music in America and the AGO, and is a prize-winning choral composer. 

Sanctus S125    Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

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

Communion Motet    Ave verum corpus    Stephanie Martin (b. 1962)
Text attributed to Pope Innocent VI (d. 1362)

Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine, vere passum immolatum in Cruce pro homine,
Cujus latus perforatum unda fluxit sanguine, esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.

Hail, true body born of the Virgin Mary, who truly suffered, sacrificed on the Cross for man,
Whose pierced side overflowed with blood, Be for us a foretaste in the test of death.

An award-winning composer and conductor, Stephanie Martin has wide musical interests ranging from Gregorian chant to gamelan; from Froberger to folksong. A guardian of musical heritage and a creative collaborator, she is known for imaginative programming and for creating sustainable musical communities.

Communion Hymn 325    Let us break bread together on our knees    Let Us Break Bread

Closing Hymn 344    Lord dismiss us with thy blessing    Sicilian Mariners

Voluntary    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Christopher Houlihan, organist