11am Choral Eucharist, Sunday, February 26th, 2017
Rite I, Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Themes from the Readings: The Transfiguration, “This is my beloved Son, listen to Him”
Prelude: A Festive Intrada, by: Cynthia Dobrinski
Processional Hymn: 135 Songs of thankfulness and praise (Salzburg)
Gloria: S280, Powell
First Reading: Exodus 24:12-18
Psalm: Psalm 99, Setting by: Stephen Elvey
Choir: 1 The Lord is King;
let the people tremble; *
he is enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth shake.
2 The Lord is great in Zion; *
he is high above all peoples.
3 Let them confess his Name, which is great and awesome; *
he is the Holy One.
4 "O mighty King, lover of justice,
you have established equity; *
you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob."
5 Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God
and fall down before his footstool; *
he is the Holy One.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests,
and Samuel among those who call upon his Name,*
they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
7 He spoke to them out of the pillar of cloud; *
they kept his testimonies and the decree that he gave them.
8 O Lord our God, you answered them indeed; *
you were a God who forgave them,
yet punished them for their evil deeds.
9 Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God
and worship him upon his holy hill; *
for the Lord our God is the Holy One.
Second Reading: 2 Peter 1:16-21
Before the Gospel: 137 O wondrous type! O vision fair (Wareham), Stanzas 1-3)
Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9
After the Gospel: 137 O wondrous type! O vision fair (Wareham), Stanzas 4-5
Offertory Anthem: O thou the central orb, by: Charles Wood
Choir: O Thou the central orb of righteous love, Pure beam of the most High, eternal Light Of this our wintry world, Thy radiance bright Awakes new joy in faith, hope soars above.
Come, quickly come, and let Thy glory shine, Gilding our darksome heaven with rays Divine. Thy saints with holy lustre round Thee move, As stars about Thy throne, set in the height Of God’s ordaining counsel, as Thy sight Gives measur’d grace to each, Thy power to prove.
Let Thy bright beams disperse the gloom of sin, Our nature all shall feel eternal day, in fellowship with Thee, transforming day to souls erewhile unclean, now pure within. Amen.
-Text by: H. R. Bramley(1833-1917)
Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3
Holy: S125, Proulx
Communion Anthem: God is Light, by: Harry Bramma
Choir: God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Thou also shalt light my candle;
the Lord my God shall make my darkenss to be light.
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom then shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom then shall I be afraid?
God is light...Alleluia.
-with text from Psalm 27
Communion Meditation: Prelude on “O wondrous type! O vision fair” by:Healey Willan
Communion Hymn: 383 Fairest Lord Jesus
Recessional Hymn: 432 O praise ye the Lord! (Laudate Dominum)
Postlude: Toccata in F Major, by: Dieterich Buxtehude
Music Notes,
By: Ashley Sosis
Today’s anthems and hymns are centered around the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-9). A few of those selections are meditations on the “Light” mentioned in verse 2 of that passage, “2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.”
Here are a sampling of a few beautiful lines of prayers and poetry on that theme of “Jesus is our light” from today’s service. From our communion hymn, “Fair is the sunshine, fairer still the moonlight, and all the twinkling, starry host: Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer, than all the angels heaven can boast.” And from today’s Offertory anthem, “Pure beam of the most High, eternal light of this our wintry world, Thy radiance bright awakes new joy in faith, hope soars above.” And from today’s collect, “Grant unto us that we, beholding by baith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory.”