1-6-19 Epiphany Evensong

Organ Recital THE ORGAN STUDIO OF ASHLEY SOSIS WITH STUDENTS OF DANIEL FRANCIS AND REDDING FARLOW- SOLDERBERG “Silent Night,” from The Hymnal 1982 #111 “Joy to the World,” from The Hymnal 1982, #100

Philipp Rahut, Organist

The following organ pieces are arranged by Alfred V. Fedak (b. 1953) “What Child is This” Kirby Cromer, Organist “Angels We Have Heard on High” “We Three Kings”

Drew Cameron, Organist

“Go, Tell It On the Mountain”

Nalani Meade, Organist

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”

Carlton Niven, Organist

“Silent Night” “Joy to the World” “Angels We Have Heard on High”

Isaac DeZwaan, Organist Wesley DeZwaan, Organist

“O Come All Ye Faithful”

McKenzie Boorn, Organist

“We Three Kings” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”

Caroline Heaton, Organist

“O Holy Night”

Sadie Burch, Organist

“We Three Kings,” Arranged By: Mark Hayes I Wonder as I Wander, Arranged By: Mark Hayes Elizabeth Glendinning, Pianist “Ave Maria,” By: Charles Gounod, with Prelude in C By: J.S. Bach Gabbi Smith, Violinist and Caleb Smith, Pianist Carol of the Bells, Arranged by: P. Wilhousky

St. Cecilia Choir

We’re so glad that you made it to our final celebration of the Christmas Season. Our hope is that the joy and wonder of the season may live in you throughout the year!

- Miss Ashley Sosis and Her Students

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Evening Prayer I + Please stand as you are able

+PROCESSIONAL HYMN 497, How bright appears the Morning Star Tune: LAND OF REST

Invitatory and Psalter Please remain standing. + INVITATORY

Setting by: Peter Mathews

Please be seated.

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PHOS HILARON

By: Gary Davison

Choir: O gracious light, pure brightness of the everliving Father in heav’n, O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!

Now as we come to the setting of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing thy praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices, O Son of God, O Giver of life, and to be glorified through all the worlds.

PSALTER

Psalm 96

Choir: Sing to the Lord a / new song; *

sing to the Lord, all / the whole earth.

People: Sing to the Lord and / bless His Name; * proclaim the good news of His salvation from / day to day.

Declare His glory among the / nations * and His wonders a-/mong all peoples.

People: For great is the Lord and greatly / to be praised; * He is more to be feared / than all gods.

Choir:

As for all the gods of the nations, they are but / idols; * but it is the Lord who / made the heavens.

People: Oh, the majesty and magnificence of His / presence! * Oh, the power and the splendor of His / sanctuary!

Choir:

Ascribe to the Lord, you families of the / peoples; * ascribe to the Lord hon-/or and pow’r.

People: Ascribe to the Lord the honor / due His Name; * bring offerings and come in-/to His courts.

Choir:

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Tone 2

Choir:

Worship the Lord in the beauty of / holiness; * let the whole earth trem-/ble before Him. Tell it out among the nations: “The / Lord is King! * He has made the world so firm that it cannot be moved; He will judge the peo-/ples with equity.”

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea thunder and all that is /in it; * let the field be joyful and all that/ is therein.

Then shall all the trees of the wood shout for joy before the Lord / when He comes, * when He comes to / judge the earth. all sing the final verse together:

People: He will judge the world with / righteousness *

and the peoples / with His truth.

Lessons LESSON 1

Isaiah 52: 7-10

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.

9 Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD has bared his holy arm 7

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before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Here endeth the Lesson.

MAGNIFICAT

“Canticle of Mary”

By: Michael Joncas

Choir: My soul gives glory to the Lord, in God my Savior I rejoice.

My lowliness he did regard, exalting me by his own choice.

From this day all shall call me blest, for he has done great things for me.

Of all great names, his is the best, for it is holy; strong is he.

His mercy goes to all who fear, from age to age and to all parts.

His arm of strength to all is near; he scatters those who have proud hearts.

He casts the mighty from their thrones and raises those of low degree; he feeds the hungry as his own,the rich depart in poverty.

He raised his servant Israel, rememb’ring his eternal grace, as from of old he did foretell to Abraham and all his race.

O Father, Son and Spirit blest, in threefold Name are you adored; to you be ev’ry prayer addressed, from age to age the only Lord.

LESSON 2

Revelation 21:22-27

And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty andthe Lamb.

23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day— and there will be no night there.

26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Here endeth the Lesson.

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NUNC DIMITTIS

Tone 7, Adapted by: Alec Wyton (b. 1921)

Choir: Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people, To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.

HOMILY

The Rev. Gregory Smith, Rector

+ APOSTLES’ CREED Chanted by the Officiant and people together on one tone, all standing.

I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.

He descended into hell.

The third day he rose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty.

From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

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Prayers The People kneel, chanting on one pitch.

BCP Pg. 67 Officiant

The Lord be with you.

Choir

And with thy spirit.

Officiant

Let us pray.

THE LORD’S PRAYER All

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SUFFRAGES

Hymnal 1982, #S22

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COLLECTS Officiant: “Lord God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ triumphed over the powers of death and prepared for us our place in the new Jerusalem: Grant that we, who have this day given thanks for his resurrection, may praise thee in that City of which he is the light; and where he liveth and reigneth for ever and ever.”

Choir: Amen.

Officiant: O God, who art the life of all who live, the light of the faithful, the strength of those who labor, and the repose of the dead: We thank thee for the timely blessings of the day, and humbly beseech thy merciful protection all the night. Bring us, we pray thee, in safety to the morning hours; through him who died for us and rose again, thy Son our Savior Jesus Christ.

Choir: Amen.

Officiant: Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love.

Choir: Amen.

ANTHEM

“The Holly and The Ivy”

Arranged By: John Rutter

Choir: The holly and the ivy when they are both full grown;

Of all the trees that are in the wood the holly bears the crown.

O the rising of the sun and the running of the deer, The playing of the merry organ, sweet singing in the choir.

The holly bears a blossom as white as any flow’r; And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ to be our sweet Savior.

O the rising of the sun and the running of the deer...

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The holly bears a berry as red as any blood; And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ to do poor sinners good.

O the rising of the sun and the running of the deer...

The holly bears a bark as bitt’r as any gall; And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ for to redeem us all.

O the rising of the sun and the running of the deer...

THE GENERAL THANKSGIVING

BCP p. 71

Officiant and people Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men.

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen.

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PRAYER OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM

BCP p. 72

Officiant only Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication unto thee, and hast promised through thy well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name thou wilt be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.

BENEDICTION Officiant: The Lord be with you; Choir:

And with thy spirit.

PROCESSIONAL HYMN 117 Brightest and best of the stars of the morning MORNING STAR

POSTLUDE

“Carillon on a Ukranian Bell Carol� By: Gerald Near

We invite you to join us for a reception in Gravely Hall immediately following the service.

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