Sunday, July 26th, 2015
Rite II, 9th Sunday after Pentecost
Themes from the Readings: We are all sinners but the Lord is merciful, Anything is possible to the Lord,
Jesus feeds the multitudes, Jesus walks on water
Sermon on: First Reading- David’s big lapse in judgement (Bathsheda and Uriah)
Prelude: Prelude, by: Henry Coleman
Processional Hymn: 470 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Gloria: S280, Powell
First Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-15
Psalm: 14
Second Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21
Before the Gospel: 411 O bless the Lord, my soul! Stanzas 1-4
Gospel: John 6:1-21
After the Gospel: 411 O bless the Lord, my soul! Stanzas 5-6
Offertory Anthem Hear my Prayer Giacomo Puccini Arr. Loretta Giles and William K. Brehm Soprano: Janet Inman Haigh
Soloist: Hear, Lord, my prayer, and be my hope and sanctuary, my fortress and my refuge.
Be now my strength, my rest, I give You all my heart, my mind, my soul, O my Lord.
I long to dwell with You, now and forever, and take my refuge in Your temple.
You are a loving God, I give my trust to You. You have heard my vows.
O Lord, now keep me in Your temple, Give me salvation! Be with me!
Lord, You heard my prayer, and You are now my sanctuary, my fortress and my refuge.
With you my soul will rest in peace for ever,
and I will sing your praise, Your glory, O Lord, my God!
-adapted from Psalms 61 and 62
Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3
Holy: S125, Proulx
Communion Anthem: Pastorale, by: Don Michael Dicie Janet Haigh, Flute
Communion Meditation: Voluntary No. 1, by: Paul F. Page
Communion Hymn: 321 My God, thy table now is spread
Recessional Hymn: 478 Jesus, our mighty Lord
Postlude: Dance- Rondo, by: Phillip Moore
Music Notes
By: Ashley Sosis
I will finish out this half-summer long series of notes on “heavy-hitter-hymns” with my favorite, “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy”, written by Frederick William Faber in 1862. That is to say, the original hymn is my favorite. The shortened version we sing today, used in most modern hymnals, waters down the text to almost, “do what you will, because God forgives”. The original text, “Souls of men, why will ye scatter,” includes the first stanza which goes deeper; we use sin as a means to separate ourselves from the Savior’s Love. Also, I love the imagery of the original last line, “and our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of the Lord”. May the rest of your Summer, and the rest of your days, be lived in that sunshine!
