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

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Service Music:

Voluntary  Master Tallis’s Testament    Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Processional Hymn 400    All creatures of our God and King    Lasst uns erfreuen

Song of Praise 417    This is the feast    Festival Canticle

Sequence Hymn 455    O Love of God, how strong and true    Dunedin

Offertory Anthem    If ye love me    Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
Text: John 14:15–17

If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another comforter,
that he may bide with you for ever, ev’n the spirit of truth.

Sanctus S125    Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

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

Communion Motet    Ubi caritas    Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Words from the Maundy Thursday liturgy

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.

Where charity and love are, God is there. Christ’s love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in him. Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.

Ola Gjeilo writes: The first time I sang in a choir was in high school; I went to a music high school in Norway and choir was obligatory. I loved it from the very first rehearsal, and the first piece we read through was Maurice Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas. It will always be one of my favorite choral works of all time; to me, it’s the perfect a cappella piece. ​So when I set the same text myself a few years later, it was inevitable that the Duruflé would influence it, and it did. While Duruflé used an existing, traditional chant in his piece, I used chant more as a general inspiration, while also echoing the form and dynamic range of his incomparable setting of the text.

Communion Hymn 700    O love that casts out fear    Moseley

Closing Hymn 412    Earth and all stars, loud rushing planets    Earth and All Stars

Voluntary    Postlude    William Mathias (1934-1992)

William Mathias was a Welsh composer best known for his music for choir and organ. A child prodigy, he started playing the piano at the age of three and began composing at the age of five. His festive and exciting settings of the Gloria and Sanctus have been mainstays of the Episcopal liturgy since they were written, in 1975.

Christopher Houlihan, organist