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Below is information on each main 10:30 Sunday service, including a list of hymns, anthems and other service music; and a link to the service bulletin. Once a service is over, it is moved to the “Past Services” sidebar.
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Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
Worship at Home:
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Service Music:
Voluntary Woodland Sketches Op. 51 Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
No 2, Will o’ the wisp – No 4, in Autumn – No 1, To a wild rose
Pi-Hsun Shih, piano
Processional Hymn 372 Praise to the living God! Leoni
Gloria in excelsis S278 William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sequence Hymn For the fruit of all creation Ar Hyd y Nos
Offertory Anthem Oh, be swift to love Nancy Grundahl (b. 1946)
Words by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Oh, be swift to love, to love,
and make haste, make haste,
to be kind, to be kind.
Nancy Grundahl is a conductor, composer and soloist and holds vocal performance degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota. In addition to her position with the Riverside Singers of Augsburg University, she is the conductor of the Angelica Cantanti Concert Choir, a youth choir based in Bloomington, Minn. and is the Director of Music at Mayflower U.C.C. in Minneapolis. More than sixty of her arrangements and compositions for choirs have been published.
Sanctus S128 William Mathias
Fraction Anthem S166 Agnus Dei Gerald Near (b. 1942)
Communion Anthem Come, renew us Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Words: 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 Ubi caritas Berthier
Hymn in Procession 495 Hail, thou once despised Jesus! In Babilone
Voluntary Toccata from Suite Gothique Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
Ted Babbitt: organ scholar
Pi-Hsun Shih: assisting pianist
All Souls Eucharist at 7:00 p.m. sung by the St. John’s Schola.
Worship at Home:
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Service Music:
Voluntary Psalm-Prelude Set 1, No. 3, Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Processional Hymn 358 Christ the Victorious, give to your servants Russia
Kyrie eleison S-84 Gregorian Chant, Orbis factor
Sequence Hymn 645 The King of love my Shepherd is St. Columba
Offertory Anthem Souls of the Righteous T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953)
Text: based on Wisdom 3:1-8
Souls of the righteous in the hand of God,
Nor hurt nor torment cometh them anigh;
O holy hope of immortality.
Souls of the righteous in the hand of God,
to eyes of men unwise, they seem to die;
They are at peace, O fairest liberty.
Souls of the righteous in the hand of God.
On earth as children chasten’d by Love’s rod,
As gold in furnace tried, so now on high
they shine like stars, a golden galaxy:
Souls of the righteous in the hand of God.
Sanctus Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme
Fraction Anthem Agnus Dei Gregorian Chant, Deus Genitor alme
Hymn in Procession 266 Who are these like stars appearing Zeuch mich, zeuch mich
Voluntary Marche Funèbre Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
St. John’s Schola: Candy Green, Kara Hart, Nancy Skeele, Abby White, Michael Mei, Odanice Olibrice, Rich Barstow, Ram Tysoe
Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Youth Choir and Schola, sermon by The Right Rev’d Laura Ahrens.
Worship at Home:
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Service Music:
Voluntary Solemn Processional Robert A. Harris (b. 1938)
Dr. Robert A. Harris is currently a Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He also serves as Director of Music and Choirmaster at the Winnetka Congregational Church in Winnetka, IL. Dr. Harris held the position of Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Organizations at NY from 1977 to 2012. Active as a conductor, composer, clinician, lecturer and adjudicator, he has also held guest professorships in conducting at Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of Texas in Austin, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria.
Processional Hymn 287 For all the saints, who from their labors rest Sine Nomine
Gloria in excelsis S278 William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sequence Hymn 293 I sing a song of the saints of God Grand Isle
Offertory Anthem Lacrimosa from Requiem Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus:
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem. Amen.
Sorrowful day,
When rising from the dust,
Guilty man to be judged.
God have mercy,
Compassionate Lord Jesus,
Grant them peace. Amen.
Sanctus S128 William Mathias
Fraction Anthem S166 Agnus Dei Gerald Near (b. 1942)
Communion Anthem God be in my head Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Words: Sarum Primer, 1514, found at Hymn 694
The apparent simplicity of God be in my head, with its repetition of the key phrase, suddenly gives way to very effective harmonic sophistication on the word ‘heart’ that lays the path for the twilit ambience of the final phrase. H. Walford Davies was composer and musical director at the University of Wales as well as Organist at, among others, Temple Church, where his student Leopold Stokowski (later one of the leading conductors of the 20th century) assisted him.
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 Toccata Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Organ Scholar: Ted Babbitt