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

Worship at Home:

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Fugue in C minor (BWV 546)    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Processional Hymn 51    We, the Lord’s people, heart and voice uniting    Decatur Place

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

Sequence Hymn 665  All my hope on God is founded    Michael

Offertory Anthem    Behold the tabernacle of God    William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Text: based on Revelation 21:3

Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and the Spirit, the Spirit of God dwelleth within you.
For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
For the love of whom ye do this day celebrate the joys of the temple with a season of festivity.
Alleluia

William Henry Harris was born in London and became a chorister at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill. At the age of 14, he took up a “flexible” position as assistant organist at St David’s Cathedral in Wales under Herbert Morris, followed at 16 by a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. His teachers there were Sir Walter Parratt, Charles Wood, and Henry Walford Davies. Harris was the piano teacher to both the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret given that he was Organist of St. George’s, Windsor.

Sanctus S124    David Hurd (b. 1950)

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

Communion Anthem    Come, renew us    Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Text: David Adam

Come, Lord, come to us. Enter our darkness with your light,
Fill our emptiness with your presence,
Come, refresh, restore, renew us.
In our sadness come as joy, in our troubles, come as peace,
In our fearfulness, come as hope, in our darkness, come as light,
In our frailty, come as strength, in our loneliness, come as love,
Come, refresh, restore, renew us.

Eleanor Daley is a Canadian composer, performer, and accompanist. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Organ Performance from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and holds diplomas in both organ and piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and Trinity College in England. She has been the Director of Music at Fairlawn Heights United Church in Toronto since 1982. During that time she has established a thriving choral program for which much of her choral music has been composed. This lovely anthem was commissioned for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stuart Forster, Director of Music and Organist, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Dedication of the Church, 2011.

Communion Hymn    Lord, whose love through humble service    Beach Spring

Hymn in Procession 48    O day of radiant gladness    Es flog ein kleins wladvogelein

Voluntary    Prelude in F    Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)