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    Requiescat in pace    Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
Rest in peace

Processional Hymn 287    For all the saints, who from their labors rest    Sine Nomine

Sequence Hymn 293    I sing a song of the saints of God    Grand Isle

Offertory Anthem    And I saw a new heaven    Edgar L. Bainton (1880-1956)
Text: Revelation 21:1-4

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea,
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

Edgar Leslie Bainton was British-born, and later was known as an Australian-resident composer. His most iconic anthem, And I saw a new heaven, is a tone-poem of ecstatic beauty. Borne aloft by the composer’s wonderfully wrought harmonization, it brings the story of creation to its ordained climax – that ultimate moment when “the former things are passed away” – and evokes St. John’s vision of heaven, one so sublime as to ease the pain and sorrow of even the saddest heart. 

Sanctus S124    David Hurd (b. 1950)

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

Communion Motet    O quam gloriosum     Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548-c.1611)
Magnificat for All Saints

O quam gloriosum est regnum,
in quo cum Christo gaudent omnes Sancti!
Amicti stolis albis,
sequuntur Agnum, quocumque ierit.

O how glorious is the kingdom
in which all the saints rejoice with Christ,
clad in robes of white
they follow the Lamb wherever he goes.

Communion Hymn 253    Give us the wings of faith to rise    San Rocco

Hymn in Procession 618    Ye watchers and ye holy ones    Lasst uns erfreuen

Voluntary    Improvisation on Lasst uns erfreuen