11am Eucharist, Sunday, March 4th, 2018

Third Sunday of Lent

Please arrive to rehearse at 9:45am

Themes from the readings: Everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved; how precious is your steadfast love, O God!; Mark’s account of Jesus and the rich young man

Processional Hymn: 686 Come, thou fount of every blessing (Nettleton)

Kyrie: S91, Willan

First Reading: Romans 10:9-13

Psalm: Psalm 36:5-12, Gregorian Chant, Tone II.1

Sung responsively. The choir begins, all respond with the verses in bold.

Choir: 5 Your love, O Lord, reaches to the /heavens,*

and your faithfulness /to the clouds.

6 Your righteousness is like the

strong mountains, your justice like the great /deep;*

you save both man and /beast, O Lord.

7 How priceless is your love, O /God!*

your people take refuge under the shadow /of your wings.

8 They feast upon the abundance of your /house;*

you give them drink from the river of /your delights.

9 For with you is the well of /life,*

and in your light /we see light.

10 Continue your loving-kindness to those who /know you,*

and your favor to those who are /true of heart.

11 Let not the foot of the proud come/ near me,*

nor the hand of the wicked push /me aside.

12 See how they are fallen, those who work /wickedness!*

they are cast down and shall not be a-/ble to rise.

Gospel Hymn: 488 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (Slane)

Gospel: Mark 10:17-31

Offertory Anthem: My Eternal King, by: Jane M. Marshall

Choir: My God, I love Thee; not because I hope for heav'n thereby,

nor yet because who love Thee not must die eternally.

Thou, O my Jesus, Thou didst me upon the cross embrace;

for me didst bear the nails and spear, and manifold disgrace;

why, then why, O blessed Jesus Christ, should I not love thee well?

Not for the hope of winning heav'n, or of escaping hell;

not with the hope of gaining aught, not seeking a reward;

but as Thyself hast loved me, O everloving Lord!

E'en so I love Thee, and will love,and in Thy praise will sing;

solely because Thou art my God, and my Eternal King.

Doxology: Hymn 380, Stanza 3

Sanctus: S125, Proulx

Communion Anthem: “Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me”, from The Crucifixion, by: John Stainer

Choir: Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me,

while He is nailed to the shameful tree,

scorned and forsaken, derided and cursed,

see how His enemies do their worst!

Yet in the midst of the torture and shame,

Jesus the Crucified, breathes my name!

All: Wonder of wonders it ever must be!

Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me.

Choir: Lord, I have left Thee, I have denied.

Followed the world in my selfish pride;

Lord, I have joined in the hateful cry,

slay Him, away with Him, crucify.

Lord, I have done it, oh! Ask me not how;

woven the thorns for Thy tortured Brow!

All: Wonder of wonders it ever must be!

Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me.

Choir: “Though thou hast left Me and wandered away,

chosen the darkness instead of the day;

though thou art covered with many a stain,

though thou hast wounded Me oft and again,

though thou hast followed thy wayward will;

yet, in My pity I love thee still.”

All: Wonder of wonders it ever must be!

Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me.

Choir: Jesus is dying, in agony sore,

Jesus is suffering more and more,

Jesus is bowed with the weight of His woe,

Jesus is faint with each bitter throe

Jesus is bearing it all in my stead,

pity Incarnate for me has bled;

All: Wonder of wonders it ever must be!

Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me.

Communion Meditation: “Meditation on ‘Nyland’”, By: R. James Pethel

Processional Hymn: 655 O Jesus, I have promised (Nyland)

Postlude: “O Man, Thy Grievous Sin Bemoan”, By:Johann Pachelbel

Music Notes

By: Ashley Sosis

Many thanks to Tim Koch, Choir Director and Darleen Smith, Organist who, together with the St. Augustine Choir, lead this morning’s music. I am with ten extremely excited St. Cecilia Youth Choir members at the Royal School of Church Music Choir Festival in Winston-Salem, SC this weekend. We are documenting our trip with fun photos on the Trinity Facebook page, so you can see what fun we may have gotten into on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday, our sightseeing day, we met with Dr. David Blum, research librarian at the Moravian Music Archives, toured the Moravian Home Church, devoured Moravian treats from the Winkler Bakery. We continued our tour of Old Salem Museums & Gardens by enjoying a recital by Scott Carpenter on the Tannenberg organ and a hands-on tour of the instrument. Later Friday night, we met John Allen Farmer, the organ-builder who restored and installed Trinity’s 1876 Johnson Organ and had a chance to tour his workshop and ask him questions about his job.

Joey Phillips made us breakfast Saturday morning before we made our way to St. Timothy’s Church, Winston-Salem, where we finally got to meet festival Choir Conductor Dr. David Arcus, Organist Mark Ardrey-Graves, and the rest of the sixty-three other choristers from nine different churches that makeup this year’s RSCM Carolinas Festival. We rehearsed together for a total of four and a half hours and then headed off to Salem Gym, where there were Gymnastics activities planned for the bravest amongst us. We enjoyed a dinner cooked by Heather Phillips, and Carrie and Joe DeZwaan and then watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Today (right now!), we have a morning service and an Evensong and even more rehearsals scattered throughout the day. The repertoire we’re singing is Gabriel Fauré’s Messe Basse, John Ireland’s Ex Ore Innocentium, L. J. White’s Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester, David Hogan’s Washington Service, Malcom Archer’s Preces and Responses, and Andrew Walker’s Phos Hilaron, as well as many chanted psalms and traditional hymns with descants.

Our youth have been very excited about this trip, but also a little anxious. The music listed above is difficult, and some pieces have sections divided into three voice parts! Won’t you pray for us? “Dear Lord, bless our youth choristers Nolan, Levi, Jackie, Elizabeth, Wesley, Isaac, Will, Sadie, Gabbi and Scarlett. We thank you for the fellowship they now share with other young musicians. May the worship they create together reflect your amazing love for us all, and with their chaperones Amanda, Heather, Joey, Joe, Carrie, Anna and Ashley, return them safely home, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”