Service Previews, Recordings & Sermons
Below is information on each main 10:30 Sunday service (9:00 service during the summer), 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, and we add links to podcasts of the entire service and the sermon only, along with a text version of the sermon.
New in 2018: Our 10:30 Sunday services and select special services are now live streamed online. You can watch a service live, or access the archived streaming video any time after. To watch live, click on the service you want in the “Upcoming Service” listing, then click on the embedded video at the service’s scheduled start time. To watch an archived video, click on the service you want in the “Past Services” sidebar, and then click on the embedded video.
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Go to past services: By Date, June, 2017 to present – Searchable, June 2017 to present – October, 2010 to May, 2017
Upcoming Services
Holy Eucharist Rite II at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. with Easter Lessons and Carols.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
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Service Music:
Voluntary Choral from Pièces en style libre Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Processional Hymn 208 Alleluia! The strife is o’er Victory
Lessons and Carols for Easter
In the same tradition that we employ in Advent and Christmas, the story of Easter is illuminated through meaningful scripture readings punctuated by song. This liturgy is shared without commentary, allowing the meaning of the words and music to dwell in your heart and find their own personal meaning. Please join in singing as indicated.
Jeremiah 31: 1-6 – God’s everlasting love is proclaimed to his people
Hymn 458, vv 1, 2, 7 My song is love unknown Love unknown
Isaiah 52:7-10, 13-15 – The prophet foretells the coming of the Savior
Hymn 178, vv. 1, 2, 4 Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord Alleluia No. 1
Revelation 21:1-7 – Saint John speaks of the New Jerusalem
Hymn 182, vv. 1, 2, 5 Christ is alive! Truro
Luke 24:1-9 – The women find the empty tomb
Sequence Hymn 204 Now the green blade riseth Noël nouvelet
John 20:19-31 – Jesus reveals himself to the disciples and to Thomas
Hymn 206 O sons and daughters, let us sing O filii, O filiae
Offertory Music Préambule from Pièces en style libre Louis Vierne
Sanctus S125 Richard Proulx (1937-2010)
Fraction Anthem Christ our Passover Jeffrey Rickard (b. 1942)
Closing Hymn 180 He is risen, he is risen! Unser Herrscher
Voluntary Carillon de Longpont from Pièces en style libre Louis Vierne
Choral Evensong at 5:00 p.m. sung by the Men and Boys of Trinity Church, New Haven.
Holy Eucharist Rite II at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. sung by the Youth & Adult Choirs, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
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Service Music:
Voluntary Trumpet Voluntary Henry Heron (1738-1795)
Gymnopedie No. 1 Eric Satie (1866-1925), arr. for organ by Ted Babbitt
Processional Hymn 205 Good Christians all, rejoice and sing Gelobt sei Gott
Song of Praise 417 This is the feast Festival Canticle
Sequence Hymn 256 A light from heaven shone around Cornish
Offertory Anthem The stone is rolled away Victor C. Johnson (b. 1978)
The stone is rolled away, hallelujah! The Lord is risen from the grave, the stone is rolled away.
Sanctus S125 Richard Proulx (1937-2010)
Fraction Anthem Christ our Passover Jeffrey Rickard (b. 1942)
Communion Motet Ubi caritas Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)
Words from the Maundy Thursday liturgy
- Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
- Where charity and love are, God is there. Christ’s love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in him. Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
Ola Gjeilo writes: The first time I sang in a choir was in high school; I went to a music high school in Norway and choir was obligatory. I loved it from the very first rehearsal, and the first piece we read through was Maurice Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas. It will always be one of my favorite choral works of all time; to me, it’s the perfect a cappella piece. So when I set the same text myself a few years later, it was inevitable that the Duruflé would influence it, and it did. While Duruflé used an existing, traditional chant in his piece, I used chant more as a general inspiration, while also echoing the form and dynamic range of his incomparable setting of the text.
Hymn in Procession 535 Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim Paderborn
Voluntary Fantasy on Gelobt sei Gott Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Celtic Contemplative Worship at 4:30 p.m., beginning with silent meditation.
Worship at Home:
Click here for: Service Bulletin
Note that the webcast recording will include the full service, which includes lengthy periods of silence. You can use that time for personal meditation, or use the fast-forward feature to move ahead.
The monthly Celtic service, a joint endeavor of St. John’s and St. James’s, centers on contemplation, connections to the earth, and healing and transformation through meditation and prayer. The service, featuring brief readings and reflections, beautiful music from a variety of traditions, and prayers, is held on the first Sunday of the month, October through June, at St. John’s. The service begins at 4:30 with a period of silence for reflection and preparation.