2015 - Spring

Spring 2015

January

Thursday, January 8

Rehearsal Cancelled Due to Weather

Thursday rehearsals resume

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, January 11 (First Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B)

Sunday schedule resumes

9-10 All Parish Brunch

9:40 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 29

(said)

Offertory:

"Alleluia" - William Boyce

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"At the River" - arr. Aaron Copland

(Alaina Carlson, mezzo-soprano)

Thursday, January 15

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, January 18 (Second Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 - Edgar Day [Anglican Chant]

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"A Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester" - L. J. White

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, January 22

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, January 25 (Third Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 62: 6-14 - William Boyce [Anglican Chant]

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"Jacob's Ladder" - arr. Stephen Darlington

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, January 29

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

February

Sunday, February 1 (Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 111 - Richard Masey [Anglican Chant]

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"O Love, How Deep" - English Ballad w\ harm by Richard Proulx based on E. Power Biggs [Hymnal #449 (with #218)]

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, February 5

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, February 8 (Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 147:1-12, 21c - George M. Garrett [Anglican Chant]

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"Eternal Light, Shine in My Heart" - Jane Marshall [Hymnal #466]

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, February 12

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, February 15 (Last Sunday after the Epiphany - RCL Year B) [Transfiguration]

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 50:1-6 - Edward John Hopkins [Anglican Chant]

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"Transfiguration" - Craig Phillips

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"Let All the World in Every Corner Sing" - Calvin Hampton [Hymnal #403]

(Chancel Choir)

Wednesday, February 18 (Ash Wednesday)

No Choir

Thursday, February 19

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, February 22 (First Sunday in Lent - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 25:1-9 - Plainsong Tone II.1

(all)

Offertory:

"My eyes for beauty pine" - Howells

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, February 26

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

March

Sunday, March 1 (Second Sunday in Lent - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 22:22-30 - Plainsong Tone II.1

(all)

Offertory:

"King of Glory, King of Peace" - J. S. Bach

(Chancel Choir)

Communion:

"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" - Richard Shephard

(Chancel Choir)

Thursday, March 5

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, March 8 (Third Sunday in Lent - RCL Year B)

8:00 Eucharist

Offertory:

"Ich will dir mein Herze schenken” from St. Matthew Passion

(Janet Stone, Soprano)

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 19 - Plainsong Tone II.1

(all)

Offertory:

"O Crux Ave"

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 - c. 1512) Ed. Brian Marble

Communion:

"Ich will dir mein Herze schenken” from St. Matthew Passion

(Janet Stone, Soprano)

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Thursday, March 12

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, March 15 (Fourth Sunday in Lent - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 - Plainsong Tone II.1

(all)

Offertory:

"God's Son Has Made Me Free" - Edvard Grieg

"A Lenten Prayer"

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Gerald Near (born 1922)

Communion:

"?" - ?

(?)

Thursday, March 19

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, March 22 (Fifth Sunday in Lent - RCL Year B)

8:00 Eucharist

Offertory:

The Lord's Prayer

(William Ottow, tenor)

Words: Matthew 6:9–13

Music: Michael Head (1900 – 1976)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 51:1-13 or Psalm 119:9-16 - Plainsong Tone II.1

(all)

Offertory:

"Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake" [NOEAB p. 138]

(Chancel Choir)

Words: Lidley's Prayers, 1566

Music: Richard Farrant (c. 1525 - 1580)

Communion:

"The Lord's Prayer"

(William Ottow, tenor)

Words: Matthew 6:9–13

Music: Michael Head (1900 – 1976)

Thursday, March 26

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, March 29 (Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday - RCL Year B)

8:00 Eucharist

Offertory:

Ex Ore Innocentium - "It is a thing most wonderful"

(Anna Whiteway, soprano; Alaina Carlson, mezzo-soprano)

Music: John Ireland

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 31:9-16 - ?

(Chancel Choir)

Offertory:

"O Mortal Man" (Sussex Mummers' Carol) [AW2E p. 132]

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Traditional melody arr John Scott (b. 1956)

Communion:

Ex Ore Innocentium - "It is a thing most wonderful"

(Anna Whiteway, soprano; Alaina Carlson, mezzo-soprano)

Music: John Ireland

April

Thursday, April 2 (Maundy Thursday)

Altered Schedule for Holy Thursday

5:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

6:00 The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday with Foot Washing

Entrance Hymn: ?

Song of Praise: ?

Psalm: 116:1, 10-17 (said in unison)

Sequence Hymn: ?

Foot Washing: (in silence without music)

Offertory:

"Ubi caritas et amor" - Traditional plainsong melody arr. John Barnard [AW2E p. 100]

(Chancel Choir, with Emi Chen, soprano)

Rehearsal starts after the service

7:30-9:00 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Friday, April 3 (Good Friday)

No Choir

Saturday, April 4 (Holy Saturday - Easter Vigil)

1:00pm - 2:00pm Brass/Organ rehearsal (Nave)

7:15 pm Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

8:00 pm Service - The Great Easter Vigil

The Procession: (Carol Smith)

[insert music from S-68 in the bulletin]

The Exsultet (?Margaret Irwin?)

[insert music from S-69 in the bulletin]

The Service of Lessons

1. Creation, Gen 1: 1-22

Psalm 33: 1-11 - plainsong - Arranged by James McGregor

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

2. Flood, Gen 7:1-5, 11-18; 8:6-18; 9:8-13.

Psalm 46 - plainsong - Tone V.1

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

Genesis 22:1-18

Psalm 16 [16:5-11 Tone IVe]

(Chancel Choir with all on Refrain)

3. Red Sea, Ex 14:10-15:1

Canticle 8, The Song of Moses - S208

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

4. Ezekiel (37:1-14)

Psalm 30 - plainsong Tone I.2

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

Isaiah 55:1-11

Canticle 9, The First Song of Isaiah - S213

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

5. Gathering of God's People, Zeph 3:12-20

Psalm 96:1-10 - Carl P. Daw, Jr. and Kevin R. Hackett

(Chancel Choir with all on Antiphon)

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Psalm 143 [Plainsong tone]

(Chancel Choir - All alternating)

6. Zephaniah 3:12-20

Psalm 98 [98:1-6 Plainsong arr. James McGregor]

(Chancel Choir with all on Refrain)

The Holy Baptism

The First Eucharist of Easter

The Easter Acclamation - [insert S-72 from hymnal]

After acclamation

S-278 Gloria William Mathias [with organ for this and following]

After Epistle...

Great Alleluia [insert S-70 from hymnal]

Offertory:

"This is the Day the Lord Has Made"

(Chancel Choir, organ)

Music: Volckmar Leisring (1588 - 1637)

"Christ the Lolrd is Risen Again!" -

Words: Michael Weisse (c. 1480-c.1530) tr. Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)

Music: Anthony Foster (b. 1926)

Sursum corda S-120

Sanctus S-128 William Mathias

The Lord's Prayer S-119

Fraction Anthem S-152

Communionn:

"Christians, to the Paschal victim" - [Hymnal #183]

(Chancel Choir)

Recessional Hymn

Hymn 210 "The Day of Resurrection!" Ellacombe

Hymn 296 "We know that Christ is raised and dies no more" Engelberg

Sunday, April 5 (Easter Day - RCL Year B)

8:00 Eucharist

Offertory:

“The Trumpet Shall Sound” from Messiah

(Kyle Connors, baritone)

?Music: G. F. Handel

9:00 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Introit:

"Christ the Lolrd is Risen Again!" -

Words: Michael Weisse (c. 1480-c.1530) tr. Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)

Music: Anthony Foster (b. 1926)

Psalm:

"This is the Day the Lord Has Made"

(Chancel Choir)

Words: Psalm 118:24

Music: Volckmar Leisring (1588 - 1637)

Offertory:

"Sing Ye Faithful, Sing with Gladness"

(Chancel Choir with Anna Whiteway, soprano)

Words: John Ellerton (1826 - 1893), alt.

Music: Richard Wayne Dirksen

Communion:

“The Trumpet Shall Sound” from Messiah

(Kyle Connors, baritone)

Music: G. F. Handel

Thursday, April 9

No Rehearsal - Easter Break

Sunday, April 12 (Second Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B)

Volunteer Choir - vest, lead service music, no choral repertoire

9:30 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 133 - said

Offertory: and Communion: (organ)

Thursday, April 16

Thursday rehearsals resume

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, April 19 (Third Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B Episcopal Visitation)

Sunday schedule resumes

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 4

(Cantor, Alaina Carlson, mezzo-soprano)

Words: Grail Psalms

Music: Joseph Gelineau (1920 - 2008)

Offertory:

"The Strife is O'er"

(Chancel Choir)

Words: Symphonia Sirenum Selectarum, 1695; trans. Francis Pott (1832-1909)

Music: Francis W. Snow

Communion:

(organ, congregation)

Thursday, April 23

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, April 26 (Fourth Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B )

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 23

(?Alaina Carlson, mezzo-soprano?)

Words: Grail Psalms

Music: Joseph Gelineau (1920 - 2008)

Offertory:

"Brother James' Air" (The Lord's My Shepherd) [NOEAB p. 30]

(Chancel Choir)

Words: The Scottish Psalter (1650) (v. 5 altered) based on Psalm 23

Music: James Leith MacBeth Bain (1860 - 1925) arr. Alan Bullard (born 1947)

Communion:

(organ, congregation)

Thursday, April 30

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

May

Sunday, May 3 (Fifth Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm: [Anglican Chant]

Psalm 22:24-30

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876)

Offertory:

"Christ Is Our Cornerstone" [NOEAB p. 36]

(Chancel Choir)

Words: 7th or 8th Century Latin tr. John Chandler (1806 - 1876) and Psalm 118:22

Music: David Thorne (born 1950)

Communion:

(organ, congregation)

Thursday, May 7

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, May 10 (Sixth Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B)

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm: [Anglican Chant]

Psalm 98

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Francis Jackson (born 1917)

Offertory:

"I Give You a New Commandment" [NOEAB p. 93]

(Chancel Choir)

Words: John 13:34-35

Music: Peter Aston (born 1938)

Communion:

(organ, congregation)

Thursday, May 14 (Ascension Day)

Final Thursday Rehearsal

7:15-8:45 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

Sunday, May 17 (Seventh Sunday of Easter - RCL Year B) [Youth Sunday]

Final Sunday Schedule

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Psalm 1

(Chancel Choir)

Music: Gerre Hancock (1934 - 2012)

Offertory:

"O Clap Your Hands" O Clap Your Hands, Op. 54, No. 2 (Dudley Buck)

(Chancel Choir)

Words: Psalm 47

Music: Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909)

"Come Down, O Love, Divine"

(Chancel Choir)

Words: Bianco Da Siena (1350 - 1399) trans. Dr Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890)

Music: Norman Gilbert (1912-1975)

Communion:

(organ, congregation)

Thursday, May 21

No Rehearsal - Summer Break

Sunday, May 24 (Day of Pentecost - Whitsunday - RCL Year B) [Memorial Day Weekend]

No Choir - Summer Break

8:00

Offertory:

?"Mein gläubiges Herze" (My Heart Ever Faithful) from Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (Pentecost Cantata), BWV 68

?(?, soprano)

?Music: J. S. Bach

9:15 Rehearsal (Choir Room, Nave)

10:00 Eucharist

Psalm:

Offertory:

"Litany to the Holy Spirit" [NOEAB p. 133]

(?)

Words: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

Music: Perter Hurford (born 1930)

Communion:

?"Mein gläubiges Herze" (My Heart Ever Faithful) from Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (Pentecost Cantata), BWV 68

?(?, soprano)

?Music: J. S. Bach