11am Eucharist, Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
Rite I, 7th Sunday after Pentecost
Themes from the Readings: How beautiful the feet of those who bring good news, honor those sent to you to preach the Gospel, be in the world but not of the world
Sermon Title: Joy in sharing the Gospel
Sermon on: Philippians 2:19-30
Prelude: O Love that will not let me go, with Piano Concerto No. 21 by: W.A. Mozart, Arranged by: Linda McKechnie
Processional Hymn: 707 Take my life, and let it be
Gloria: S204, Scottish Chant
First Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalm: Psalm 86:1-7
Second Reading: Philippians 2:19-30
Gospel Hymn: 690 Guide me, O thou great Jehovah
Gospel: John 17:14-19
Sermon Hymn: 408 Sing praise to God who reigns above
Offertory Anthem: What Wondrous Love is This, from The Sacred Harp Hymnal
Choir: What wondrous love is this, oh my soul!
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul.
When I was sinking down,
Beneath God’s righteous frown
Christ laid aside His crown for my soul.
To God and to the Lamb, I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM,
While millions join the theme, I will sing.
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on.
And when from death I’m free,
I’ll sing and joyful be
Throughout eternity, I’ll sing on.
Doxology: Hymn 380, Stanza 3
Holy: S114, Willan
Communion Meditation: Lord, I Want to Be a Christian, American Folk Hymn, Arranged by: Cindy Berry
Communion Anthem: On Jordan’s Stormy Banks, from The Sacred Harp Hymnal
Choir: On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye,
To Canaan’s fair and happy land where my possessions lie.
Oh, the transporting rapt’rous scene that rises to my sight;
Sweet fields arrayed in living green and rivers of delight.
O’er all those wide, extended plains shines one eternal day;
There God the Son forever reigns and scatters night away.
O the transporting rapt’rous scene...
No chilling winds or pois’nous breath can reach that healthful shore;
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death are felt and feared no more.
O the transporting rapt’rous scene...
Recessional Hymn: 438 Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord!
Postlude: O Lord, Thy Work Revive, Hymn Tune: Detroit, Arranged by: Wilbur Held
Music Notes
By: Ashley Sosis
Today’s special music was provided by Neil Abercrombie and Carolyn Vereen. The three of us, with other St. Augustine choir members, are enthusiastic “shape-note singers” and have had the pleasure of traveling down to Charleston together to go to Shape-note sings. These meetings are best described as two hours of informal, yet intense, sight-reading from The Sacred Harp Hymnal. If I was to make broad, yet fair generalizations about shapenote singers throughout the US (check out www.fasola.org if you would like to go to a sing near you!), I would say that we are fans of hymn tunes by William Billings and hymn texts of Isaac Watts, minor keys, open 4ths and 5ths and vocal straight-tone. Also, we’re historical reenactors. Our meetings attempt to preserve the musical interpretive style of singing schools of colonial America. What is especially exciting for me as a music teacher is that in the South and other regions of the US, shape note singing practices have been so successfully preserved that these sings may be considered part of an unbroken, living tradition! So if you go to a sing, tread lightly, listen carefully and lose yourself in some seriously passionate Christian music!