Sunday, October 19th, 2014

Rite II, Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Themes from the Readings: God’s power and majesty, God chooses us, Render to God what belongs to him

Prelude: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty , the King of Creation, by: Johann Gottfried Walther

Processional Hymn: 423 Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Gloria: S280, Powell

First Reading: Exodus 33:12-23

Psalm: Psalm 99

Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Before the Gospel: 408 Sing praise to God who reigns above, stanzas 1 and 2

Gospel: Matthew 22:15-22

After the Gospel: 408 Sing praise to God who reigns above, stanza 3

Offertory Anthem: Ev’ry time I feel the spirit, arranged by: William L. Dawson, Soloist: Dr. Tim Koch

Ev’ry time I feel the spirit moving in my heart, I will pray.

Upon the mountain my Lord spoke, out of His mouth came fire and smoke;

Looked all around me, it looked so fine, till I asked my Lord if all was mine.

Jordan river is chilly an’ cold, it shills the body but not the soul;

There ain’t but one train upon this track, it runs to heaven an’ right back.

Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3

Holy: S125, Proulx

Communion Anthem: My Soul, Triumphant in the Lord, arranged by: Alice Parker

My soul, triumphant in the Lord, shall tell its joys abroad,

And march with holy vigor on supported by its God.

Through all the winding maze of life His hand has been my guide;

And in that long experienced care my heart shall still confide.

His grace through all the desert flows an unexhausted stream;

That grace in Zion’s sacred mount shall be my endless theme.

Communion Meditation: Come now, almighty King, arranged by: Gerald Near

Communion Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth (insert into program, not in hymnal)

Recessional Hymn: 390 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Postlude: Toccata (exerpt) by: Théodore Dubois

Music Notes

by: Ashley Sosis

This morning’s decidedly “American” theme is a foretaste of our special musical events planned in November at Trinity Church. On Sunday, November 2nd we will present an Evensong for All Saint’s Day featuring Service in F by American Composer Harold Friedell (pronounced “Freh-DELL”). On November 7th (with a repeat concert on the 8th at Church of the Resurrection), we will present a concert of American Choral Music to benefit the Veteran’s Welcome Home and Resource Center in Little River, SC. The program for November 7th and 8th will include several arrangements by Alice Parker, who arranged today’s Communion anthem, “My Soul, Triumphant in the Lord”. She could very well be talking about this little arrangement when she said,

“I am a devotee of folk songs from many cultures, as well as the rediscovery of Christian hymns from many centuries… I never tire of composing, arranging, conducting and teaching from these ever-flowing sources.”

Happily, neither do we tire of learning your compositions and arrangements, Dr. Parker!