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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist (BuxWV 208)    Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Processional Hymn 427    When morning gilds the skies    Laudes Domini

Song of Praise S236    Glory to you    John Rutter (b. 1945)

Sequence Hymn 675    Take up your cross    Bourbon

Offertory   Dear Lord and father of mankind    Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Text by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), found at Hymn 652

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet, was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Parry’s first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song Jerusalem, his 1902 setting for the coronation anthem I was glad, the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune Repton, which sets the words Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. His orchestral works include five symphonies and a set of Symphonic Variations.

Sanctus S124    David Hurd (b. 1950)

Fraction Anthem S154  Christ our Passover    David Hurd (b. 1950)

Communion Music    God so loved the world (2014)    Brittney Boykin (b. 1989)
Text: John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

B.E. Boykin is a native of Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in Music. Ms. Boykin received her M.M. in Sacred Music with a concentration in Choral Studies from Westminster Choir College. She continued to compose music during her time at Westminster, and was awarded the R and R Young Composition Prize just a few months shy of graduating.

Ms. Boykin currently serves as Assistant Director/Accompanist for the Spelman College Glee Club. Her most recent commissioned work, “We Sing as One,” was commissioned to celebrate Spelman’s College’s 133rd 

Communion Hymn 574    Before thy throne, O God, we kneel    St. Petersburg

Hymn in Procession 344    Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing    Sicilian Mariners

Voluntary    Te Deum    Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)