10:30am Eucharist, Sunday, February 24th, 2019

The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany

Prelude: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 1118, Setting By: J. S. Bach

Processional Hymn: 400 All creatures of our God and King

Gloria S204

First Reading: Genesis 45:3-11,21-28

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:35-49

Gospel Hymn: 686 Come, thou fount of every blessing

Gospel: Luke 9:18-20

Offertory Anthem: King of Glory, King of Peace, By: J. S. Bach, Arranged By: W. H. Harris

Text By: George Herbert, Arranged By: W. H. Harris

Choir: King of glory, King of peace, I will love Thee:

And that love may never cease, I will move Thee.

Thou hast grantede my request, Thou hast heard me;

Thou didst note my working breast, Thou hast spared me.

Wherefore with my utmost art I will sing Thee,

And the cream of all my heart I will bring Thee.

Though my sins against me cried, Thou didst clear me;

And alone, when they replied, Thou didst hear me.

Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise Thee;

In my heart, though not in heaven, I can raise Thee.

Small it is in this poor sort to enrol* Thee:

E’en eternity’s too short to extole thee.

*archaic spelling, same meaning as “enroll”

Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3

Holy: S125, Proulx

Communion Anthem: Come with us, O blessed Jesus, Tune: Werde munter, Harmonized By: J. S. Bach

Choir: Come with us, O blessed Jesus, with us evermore to be; and though leaving now thine altar, let us nevermore leave thee. Be thou one with us for ever, in our life thy love divine our own flesh and blood has taken, and to us thou givest thine. Come with us, O mighty Savior, God from God, and Light from Light; thou art God, thy glory veiling, so that we may bear the sight. Now we go to seek and serve thee, through our work as through our prayer; grant us light to see and know thee, in thy people everywhere. Come with us, O King of glory, by angelic voices praised; in our hearts as in thy heaven, be enraptured anthems raised. Let the mighty chorus ever sing its glad exultant songs; let its hymn be heard for ever—peace for which creation longs.

Commuion Meditation: Duo on All Creatures of Our God and King, By: Rebecca te Velde

Recessional Hymn: 432 O Praise Ye the Lord

Postlude: Fugue on “O Praise Ye the Lord” By: Kenneth Lowenberg

Music Notes By: Ashley Sosis

This morning’s hymns are 400, All creatures of our God and King; 686, Come, thou fount of every blessing; and 432, O Praise Ye the Lord.

All creatures of our God and King is based on a Italian hymn text written by St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1182-1226), translated by William H. Draper (1855-1933). The life of the founder of the Franciscan monastic order is most astounding. Born to wealth, he forsook all for a life of asceticism, mysticism and charitable works with the sick and downtrodden. A translation of the original title of this text is “Canticle of the Sun”.

Come, thou fount of every blessing was written by Robert Robinson (1735-1790). Born of humble parents, Robinson could not afford schooling for the ministry, so was apprenticed at fourteen to a London barber and hairdresser. After a dissolute youth he was converted by George Whitefield and became a Calvinistic Methodist minister. Like John Newton’s “Amazing grace,” his hymn is one of providence and grace. Like Jacob, who raised an Ebenezer (a stone altar which signified that God had brought him thus far), he confesses how great a debtor he is to the grace of God, as are we all!

The text of “O praise ye the Lord,” is a paraphrase of psalms 148 and 150 by Sir Henry Williams Baker.

Book of Common Prayer Psalm 148 Hymn, stanzas 1-2

1 Hallelujah! 1. O praise ye the Lord!

Praise the Lord from the heavens;* Praise him in the height;

praise him in the heights.

2 Praise him, all you angels of his;* rejoice in his word,

praise him, all his host. ye angels of light;

5 Let them praise the Name ye heavens adore him

of the Lord;* by whom ye were made,

for he commanded, and worship before him

and they were created. in brightness arrayed.

7 Praise the Lord from the earth... 2. O praise ye the Lord!

13 Let them praise Praise him upon earth,

the Name of the Lord,* in tuneful accord, all ye of new birth,

for his Name only is exalted, praise him who hath brought you

his splendor is over earth and heaven. his grace from above,

praise him who hath taught you

to sing of his love.

Psalm 150 Hymn, Stanzas 3-4

verses 3-5 Stanza 3

verses 1,2 & 6 Stanza 4