11am Eucharist, Sunday, September 24th, 2017
Rite I, 16th Sunday after Pentecost
Themes from the Readings: David though small is a mighty warrior with the Lord’s help; “the battle is the Lord’s”; the Lord is my light and my salvation, of whom should I be afraid?; Paul says don’t forget to go to Church; faith as a mustard seed
Sermon Title: David: Man of Faith
Sermon on: 1 Samuel 17:33-47
Prelude: Cornet Voluntary, By: George Berg (1720-1775)
Processional Hymn: 636 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord (Foundation)
Gloria: S204, Scottish Chant
First Reading: 1 Samuel 17:33-47
Psalm: Psalm 27:1-4; 7-9; Hallock
All: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Choir: 1. The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2. When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh,*
it was they, my foes and my adversaries, who stumbled and fell.
All: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
3. Though an enemy should encamp against me,*
yet my heart shall not be afraid;
4. And though war should rise up against me,*
yet will I put my trust in him.
All: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
5. One thing have I asked of the Lord; one thing I seek;*
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life;
6. To behold the fair beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
All: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
7. For in the day of trouble he shall keep me safe in his shelter;*
he shall hide me in the secrecy of his dwelling
and set me high upon a rock.
9. Therefore I will offer in his dwelling an oblation
with sounds of great gladness;*
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Second Reading: Hebrews 10:19-25
Gospel Hymn: 691 My faith looks up to thee (Olivet)
Gospel: Matthew 17:14-20
Sermon Hymn: 699 Jesus, Lover of my soul (Aberystwyth)
Offertory Anthem: Alleluia, Sing to Jesus, Arranged by: Benjamin Harrison
Choir: Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, his the throne;
Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone:
Hark! the songs of peaceful Sion thunder like a mighty flood;
Jesus out of ev’ry nation hath redeemed us by His blood.
Alleluia! Bread of Heaven, Thou on earth our food, our stay!
Alleluia! Here the sinful flee to Thee from day to day:
Intercessor, friend of sinners, earth’s redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless sweep across the crystal sea.
Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! he is near us, faith believes, nor questions how;
Though the cloud from sight received him, when the forty days were o’er,
Shall our hearts forget his promise, I am with you evermore!”
Doxology: Hymn 380, stanza 3
Holy: S114, Willan
Communion Anthem: 669 Commit thou all that grieves thee (Herzlich tut mich verlangen)
Choir: Commit thou all that grieves thee and fills thy heart with care
to him whose faithful mercy the skies above declare,
who gives the winds their courses, who points the clouds their way;
‘tis he will guide thy footsteps and by thy staff and stay.
O trust the Lord then wholly, if thou wouldst be secure;
his work must thou consider for thy work to endure.
What profit doth it bring thee to pine in grief and care?
God ever sends his blessing in answer to thy prayer.
Thy lasting truth and mercy, O Father, see aright
the needs of all thy children, their anguish or delight:
what loving wisdom chooseth, redeeming might will do,
and bring to sure fulfillment thy counsel good and true.
Hope on, then, broken spirit; hope on, be not afraid:
fear not the griefs and that plague thee and keep thy heart dismayed:
thy God, in his great mercy, will save thee, hold thee fast,
and in his own time grant thee the sun of joy at last.
Communion Meditation: Diapason Movement, by: Maurice Greene
Recessional Hymn: 665 All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Postlude: Voluntary in A Major By: William Selby (1738-1798)
Music Notes
By: Ashley Sosis
A major theme of today’s service is easy to support with hymn texts—Trust in God. The tune of our final processional hymn, “All my hope in God is founded”, was composed Herbert Howells ca. 1930 because of a request written in a letter by Dr. Thomas Feilden, Director of Music of England’s Charterhouse School. Howells wrote the entire tune while still at the breakfast table where he had been opening the mail. The tune’s name honors the composer’s late son. Though one of the more difficult tunes to sing in the Hymnal 1982, it is worth the effort to enjoy Howells’ compositional style, possessing equal parts lyric beauty, harmonic richness, and spirited forward motion.