Hope & Deliverance

And What Is It We Shall Hope For? (Robert Cundick)

And what is it we shall hope for?

We have hope through the atonement of Christ

And the power of His resurrection

To be raised unto life eternal.

We shall pray unto the Father

With all the energy of our hearts

That we may be filled with His love, Which He hath bestowed on us

Who are true followers of our Lord, Jesus Christ

That we may become the sons and daughters of God. That when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; For we shall see Him as He is, That we may have this hope, That we may be purified, even as He is pure. Amen.

(Moroni 7:41, 48)

No. 3 from Triptych (Tarik O’Regan) Allie Smith, soprano soloist

Each shall arise in the place where their life [spirit] departs.

“Bundahis-Bahman Yast”; Indian Bundahishn (ninth century) [adapted], from Sacred Books of the East, Volume 5, translated by Edward W. West (1860)

[So] Why then should I be afraid?

I shall die once again to rise an angel blest.

“Masnavi i Ma’navi”; Mathwani of Jalalu-‘d’Din Rumi (thirteenth century) [adapted], from Masnavi i Ma’navi, Book III, translated by Edward H. Whinfield (1898)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar.

William Wordsworth (1770–1850), from “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (1807)

Calm fell, from heaven distilled a clemency; There was peace on earth, and a silence in the sky.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), from “And There was a Great Calm,” on the signing of the Armistice (1918)

We’ll Sing All Hail to Jesus’ Name (Joseph Coslett, arr. Jacob Hasler) Avery Gunnell, pianist

We’ll sing all hail to Jesus’ name, And praise and honor give To him who bled on Calvary’s hill, And died that we might live. He passed the portals of the grave; Salvation was his song; He called upon the sinbound soul, To join the heav’nly throng. He seized the keys of death and hell, And bruised the serpent’s head; He bid the prison doors unfold, The grave yield up her dead.

How great, how glorious, how complete, Redemption’s grand design Where justice, love, and mercy meet, In harmony divine!

Rejoice, O Judah / Hallelujah, Amen, from Judas Maccabeus (George Frideric Handel) Abe Geigle, bass soloist Rejoice, O Judah, and, in songs divine, With cherubim and seraphim harmonious join! Hallelujah! Amen.