October 30, 2016 + The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Helen Moore.

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Voluntary    Sonata II in C minor     Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Grave – Adagio – Allegro maestoso e vivace

Mendelssohn was a skilled organist and during his visits to Britain gave a number of well-received organ recitals. These often included the improvisations for which he was famous. His sonatas take on his improvisatory style, as well as the lyric “songs without words” character for which he is well-known. After the Mendelssohn organ sonatas were publicly released, Robert Schumann described them as ‘intensely poetical, … what a perfect picture they form!’

Processional Hymn 546    Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve    Siroë

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Psalm 119:137-144    Anglican Chant by Herbert Hall Woodward (1847-1909)

Sequence Hymn 640   Watchman, tell us of the night   Aberystwyth

Offertory Anthem    Treasures in heaven    Joseph Clokey (1890-1960)
Text: Matthew 6:19-21, 7:7-8

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Sanctus S128    William Mathias

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

Communion Anthem    Ubi caritas    Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

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.

Gjeilo writes about this work:  “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.”

Communion Hymn 301   Bread of the world, in mercy broken   Rendez a Dieu

Closing Hymn 539   O Zion haste, thy mission high fulfilling   Tidings

Voluntary    Sonata II in C minor: Fugue     Felix Mendelssohn

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