Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with the St. John’s Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Todd FitzGerald
Click here: Service Bulletin
Service Music:
Voluntary Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Holy Boy John Ireland (1914-1992)
John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer and music teacher. Ireland studied piano and organ, at the Royal College of Music. He also studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and songs with piano. The Holy Boy, a solo instrumental or orchestral composition, is one of his best-known works. Other important works include the setting of the poem Sea-Fever by John Masefield, his Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown, and the choral motet Greater Love Hath No Man.
Processional Hymn 616 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed Es flog ein kleins Waldvögelein
Gloria S280 Robert Powell (b.1932)
Sequence Hymn 259 Hail to the Lord who comes Old 120th
Offertory Anthem Nunc dimittis in C Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
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.
Sanctus S129 Robert Powell
Fraction anthem S163 Robert Powell
Communion Anthem We shall walk through the valley Spiritual, arr. Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
We shall walk through the valley in peace;
we shall walk through the valley in peace.
Refrain:
If Jesus himself shall be our leader,
we shall walk through the valley in peace.
There will be no sorrow there;
there will be no sorrow there. Refrain
Undine Eliza Anna Smith Moore, the “Dean of Black Women Composers,” was an American composer and professor of music in the twentieth century. Moore was originally trained as a classical pianist, but developed a compositional output of mostly vocal music—her preferred genre. Much of her work was inspired by black spirituals and folk music. Undine Smith Moore was a renowned teacher, and once stated that she experienced “teaching itself as an art.”
Communion Hymn 490 I want to walk as a child of the light Houston
Hymn in Procession 7 Christ, whose glory fills the skies Ratisbon
Voluntary Carillon on Orientis Partibus Arthur Wills (1926-2020)