11am Eucharist, Sunday, August 5th, 2018

ACNA Ancient Text, 11^th Sunday after Pentecost

Themes from the Readings: Paul entreats us to live for Christ for Christ has set us free; only faith working through love counts for anything; the Psalm recounts God’s gift of manna in the desert; Jesus says come unto me all you who are weary and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden light.

Sermon on: Galatians

Prelude: “Allemande”, from Partita No 4 in D major, BWV 828, By: Johann Sebastian Bach

Processional Hymn: 304 I come with joy to meet my Lord (Land of Rest)

Gloria: S280, Powell

First Reading: Galatians 5:1-15

Psalm: Psalm 78:23-29

Gospel Hymn: 318 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face (Nyack)

Gospel: Matthew 11:25–30

Offertory Anthem: Prelude in G major, Op. 13, No.3, By: Alexander Scriabin

Doxology: Hymn 380, Stanza 3

Holy: S125, Proulx

Communion Meditation: Excerpt from Chorale Prelude in E Major, By: Ceasar Franck, Transcribed By: Blanche Selva

Recessional Hymn: 699 Jesus, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth)

Postlude: “Allegro”, from Au Pied De L’Autel, Vol. 1, By: Joseph-Guy Ropartz

Music Notes, By: Ashley Sosis

When I get back from vacation, I will gladly give a quarter to whoever can pronounce the name of the tune of our closing hymn, Aberystwyth, (“Ab-er-ist-with”) named after a coastal town in Wales with roughly 15,000 people (a little less than half of Myrtle Beach’s population, not counting tourism).

The tune Aberystwyth was written by Joseph Parry (1841-1903) , born to a poor but musical family. Although musically talented from an early age, he was sent to work in a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where he continued to work in steel mills, often singing during his factory breaks and forming sight-singing groups among his fellow young steel workers (according to his Danville Obituary). Members of his community in Danville helped finance his musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and he went on to become a successful professor, organist and composer on both sides of the Atlantic.

Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes, of which Aberystwyth, paired with the text, “Jesus, lover of my soul”, is best known.

Parry returned to Danville, PA to start a private music school, which unfortunately does not exist today. However, the 1883 Hook & Hastings pipe organ that Parry played while serving as organist at Mahoning Presbyterian Church (also in Danville), is still used in worship.