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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary   Antiphon: How fair and how pleasant art thou, Op. 18    Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Processional Hymn 348 Lord, we have come at your own invitation    O quanta qualia

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

Sequence Hymn 379    God is love, let heaven adore him    Abbot’s Leigh

Offertory Anthem    O how amiable    Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Text from Psalms 84 and 90

O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of hosts!
My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young:
even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house.
They will be alway praising thee.
The glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us;
prosper thou the work of our hands upon us.
O prosper thou our handiwork.
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home.

Sanctus S124    David Hurd (b. 1950)

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

Communion Anthem    Psalm 23    C. Hylton Stewart (1884-1932)

The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can I lack nothing.
He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
He shall convert my soul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Thou shalt prepare a table before me in the presence of them that trouble me; thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.
Surely thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Arthur Charles Lestoc Hylton Stewart was an English cathedral organist, who served in Rochester Cathedral and St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He produced several compositions for organ, and sacred choral pieces for choir.

Communion Hymn 321    My God, thy table now is spread    Rockingham

Hymn in Procession 657    Love divine, all loves excelling    Hyfrydol

Voluntary    Postlude on Hyfrydol    Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)