Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Choir School, sermon by the St. John’s EYC Youth Group.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Fantasia and Air from Suite for Organ    Florence Price (1887-1953)

Processional Hymn 225    Hail thee, festival day!    Salve festa dies

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast    Festival Canticle

Sequence Hymn 513    Like the murmur of the dove’s song    Bridegroom

Offertory Anthem     The lone, wild bird    Spiritual, arr. David N. Johnson (1922-1987)
Text: Henry Richard McFayden, 1877–1964

The lone, wild bird in lofty flight
Is still with Thee, nor leaves Thy sight.
And I am Thine! I rest in Thee.
Great Spirit, come, and rest in me.

The ends of earth are in Thy hand,
The sea’s dark deep and far off land.
And I am Thine! I rest in Thee.
Great Spirit, come, and rest in me.

Sanctus S125    Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

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

Jeffrey Rickard is a retired professor of music and director of choral activities from the University of Redlands (CA). He is the founder and director of the Community Chorus of Redlands and minister of music to Trinity Episcopal Church (since 1971). In 1969 he was awarded first prize in a national organ composition competition sponsored by Ohio State University for the setting of Sonata for Organ in E Minor.

Communion Motet    Veni, Creator Spiritus       Plainsong
Text: Latin, 9th century

Grant us by Thee to know the Father and to know the Son,
And Thee, Spirit of both, may we always believe.

To God the Father be glory, to the Son Who rose from the dead
And to the Comforter, for all ages. Amen.

Communion Hymn    Spirit of the living God    Iverson

Closing Hymn 516    Come down, O Love divine    Down Ampney

Voluntary    Toccato from Suite for Organ    Florence Price

Christopher Houlihan, organist