10:30am Choral Eucharist, Sunday, October 7th, 2018
ACNA Ancient Text, 20th Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon on: Exodus
Themes from the readings: God establishes Passover; Jesus’s answers the Pharisee’s questions about divorce.
Prelude: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”, Setting By: Johann Gottfried Walther
Processional Hymn: 390 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe den Herren)
Gloria: S280, Powell
First Reading: Exodus 12:1-14
Second Reading: 1 Cor 11:23-26
Gospel Hymn: 313 Let thy Blood in mercy poured (Jesus, meine Zuversicht)
Gospel: Mark 10:2-9
Offertory Anthem: O, Praise God in His Holiness, By: C. Armstrong Gibbs
Choir: O praise God in his holiness,
praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him in his noble acts,
praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Praise him in the sound of the trumpet,
praise him upon the lute and harp.
O, praise God in his holiness,
praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him in the cymbals and dances,
praise him upon the strings and pipe.
Praise him upon the well-tuned cymbals,
praise him upon the loud cymbals.
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.
Doxology: Hymn 380, Stanza 3
Holy: S125, Proulx
Communion Anthem: Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether, By: William Friedell
Choir: Draw us in the Spirit’s tether;
for when humbly, in thy name,
Two of three are met together,
Thou art in the midst of them;
Alleluya! Alleluya! Touch we now thy garment’s hem.
As the brethren used to gather
in the name of Christ to sup,
Then with thanks to God the Father
break the bread and bless the cup,
Alleluya! Alleluya! So knit thou our friendship up.
All our meals and all our living
make as sacraments of thee,
That by caring, helping, giving,
we may true disciples be,
Alleluya! Alleluya! We will serve Thee faithfully.
Communion Meditation: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”, Setting By: Rebecca te Velde
Processional Hymn: 473 Lift High the Cross (Crucifer)
Postlude: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”, Setting By: Craig Courtney
Music Notes, By: Ashley Sosis
This Sunday’s music includes choral anthems by C. Armstrong Gibbs, and Harold W. Friedell.
C. Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960), was a versatile and prolific British composer, who learned from and taught alongside famous composers Charles Wood and R. Vaughan Williams, though his compositions remain unfairly neglected. He abbreviated or dropped his first name Cecil entirely from his compositions because he disliked it. If you would like to spend some time appreciating Gibbs’ underappreciated music, listen to his Symphony No. 3 “Westmorland”, written in memory of his son who was killed in action during WWII.
Harold W. Friedell (1905-1958) was an American organist, choirmaster, teacher and composer. He began his career as an organist at an early age and continued to serve churches and teach in New York and New Jersey the rest of his short life. He taught on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music in New York City. As a composer, Friedell composed works for organ, orchestra, and choir, as well as hymn tunes, descants, and music for solo voice. Today’s anthem by Harold W. Friedell is so famous that a version is printed in hymnals as the hymn tune “Union Seminary”. According to a colleague who interviewed Friedell’s son for a scholarly paper, the Friedells pronounce their name “Freh-dell”, not “Free-dell” as the German spelling would suggest.