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

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Fugue in D Major, BWV 532b    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Processional Hymn 541    Come, labor on    Ora Labora

Song of Praise    Dignus es    Benjamin P. Straley (b. 1986)

Sequence Hymn 671    Amazing grace! how sweet the sound    New Britain

Offertory Anthem    Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace    Peter Niedmann (b. 1960)
Words: Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Peter Niedmann is Director of Music and Organist at Church of Christ, Congregational, in Newington, and composition coach for Scott Lamlein. He is a published composer with hundreds of works in print, and former Dean of the Hartford American Guild of Organists. His choral music has been sung at The White House and a Papal Mass for Pope John Paul II.

Sanctus    Land of Rest, arr. Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983)

Fraction Anthem    Be Known to us, Lord Jesus    Gary James (b. 1957)

Communion Anthem    O Lord increase my faith,    Allen Bevan (b. 1951)

O Lord, increase my faith.
Strengthen me and confirm me in thy true faith;
endue me with wisdom, charity, chastity and patience
in all my adversity.
Sweet Jesus, say Amen.

Communion Hymn 488    Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart    Slane

Hymn in Procession    Great is thy faithfulness    Faithfulness

Voluntary    Toccata on Great Day    Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)

Adolphus Hailstork is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. As a child, he joined the choir of the Episcopalian cathedral. From this experience he developed an interest in vocal melodic writing that asserts itself in his choral works and art songs. Hailstork is of African-American ancestry and his works blend musical ideas from both the African-American and European traditions. His principal teachers were H. Owen Reed (Michigan State University), Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond (Manhattan School of Music), Mark Fax (Howard University) and Nadia Boulanger (American Institute at Fontainebleau).

Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Todd FitzGerald.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Prayer (An Offertory)    George Walker (1922-2018)

Processional Hymn 1    Father, we praise thee, now the night is over    Christe Sanctorum

Gloria in excelsis S278    William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn 397    Now thank we all our God    Nun danket all Gott

Offertory Anthem    Restless is the heart    Bernadette Farrell (b. 1957)
Text: Based on Psalm 90:1–2, 4–6, 12, 14

Refrain:
Restless is the heart until it comes to rest in you.
All the earth shall remember and return to our God.

Lord you have been our refuge through all time, from one generation to the next;
before the mountains were born, or the earth brought forth, you are God, without beginning or end. (Refrain)

To your eyes a thousand years are like a day, no more than a watch in the night.
You sweep us away like a dream, like the grass that springs green in the morning, but faded by night. (Refrain)

Make us know our life’s shortness, that we may gain true wisdom of heart.
In the morning full us with your love. (Refrain)

Bernadette Farrell is one of the most beloved composers of music for worship on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of her songs such as “Christ, Be Our Light” and “O God, You Search Me” are worship staples in the hymnals of every denomination. She has a gift for composing richly meaningful, often challenging lyrics and comforting, prayerful melodies. 

Bernadette has always had a passion for social justice and that comes to the fore in many of her songs. She is a community organizer for UK Citizens, which advocates for fair housing, a living wage, proper community policing and health care access.

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei    Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Communion Anthem    Lord, make me to know    William Byrd (1543-1623)

Lord, make me to know thy ways, O Lord.
O Lord, teach me thy paths, O Lord.
O lead me in thy truth, and teach me,
for thou art the God of my salvation.

William Byrd as an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music. Although he produced sacred music for Anglican services, sometime during the 1570s he became a Roman Catholic and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life.

Communion Hymn 655    O Jesus, I have promised    Nyland

Hymn in Procession 493    O for a thousand tongues to sing    Azmon

Voluntary    Miserere    William Byrd (1543-1623)

Douglas Johnson, guest organist

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

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Service Music:

Voluntary    from Kleine Intermezzi: Maestoso, Andante sostenuto    Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984)

Processional Hymn 372    Praise to the living God!    Leoni

Gloria in excelsis S278    William Mathias (1934-1992)

Sequence Hymn 630    Thanks to God whose Word was spoken    Wylde Green

Offertory Anthem    I hear a voice a prayin’    Houston Bright (1916-1970)

I hear a voice a-prayin’, Lord, Hallelujah,
I hear a voice a-cryin’, oh Lord, save-a my soul.
Every time I hear a sinner pray, I wonder if I’m ready for the Judgment Day.
Every time I hear a sinner cry, I wonder where I’m goin’ when I come to die.
Every time I hear the parson preach, I wonder if salvation is in-a my reach.

Houston Bright, son of a Methodist minister and long-time professor of music at what is now West Texas A&M University, composed over a hundred choral works, but ‘I Hear a Voice’ is by far his most famous, and one of the few pieces written in this Gospel style.

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei    Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Communion Anthem    Listen, sweet dove    Katherine Burk (b. 1990)
Sung by the Choir School
Text: George Herbert

Listen sweet Dove unto my song,
and spread thy golden wings in me;
hatching my tender heart so long,
till it get wing, and flie away with thee.

The sunne, which once did shine alone,
hung down his head, and wisht for night,
when he beheld twelve sunnes for one
going about the world, and giving light.

Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow,
that th’earth did like a heav’n appeare;
the starres were coming down to know
if they might mend their wages, and serve here.

Lord, though we change, thou art the same;
the same sweet God of love and light:
restore this day, for thy great name,
unto his ancient and miraculous right.

Katherine Burk is an organist, conductor, vocalist, and composer pursuing the Doctor of Music degree in organ performance at Indiana University. She currently serves as Organ Scholar at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. Katherine has recently been named to the Diapason’s “20 Under 30” list of high-achieving young musicians in the fields of organ and church music.

Communion Hymn 631    Book of books, our people’s strength    Liebster Jesu

Hymn in Procession 530    Spread, O spread, thou mighty word    Gott sei Dank

Voluntary    from Kleine Intermezzi: Poco vivace    Hermann Schroeder

 

Celtic Contemplative Service at 5:00pm in Hubbard Hall

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