The Holy Eucharist, Rite II
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People often wish to take the time before and after worship for silent prayer. Please be considerate of your fellow worshippers by refraining from conversations before Mass and applause at the end of the postlude. Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness.
Child-care is available for children under age 6; please ask an usher for directions; all children are welcome in worship, and we encourage parents to bring children to Communion.
PRELUDE Wir glauben all an einen Gott, Vater Sohn, heiligen Geist (‘We all believe in one God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost’)
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
A bell sounds. All stand as they are able.
PROCESSIONAL HYMN 370 (stanzas 1-5) · St. Patrick’s Breastplate (see pg 17)
THE STATION AT THE FONT
The Procession pauses at the baptismal font.
Celebrant Let us glorify the Lord: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; People Praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
Celebrant Let us pray.
Almighty God, you have revealed to your Church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace to continue steadfast in the confession of this faith, and constant in our worship of you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; for you live and reign, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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INTROIT HYMN 370 (stanzas 6-7) · St. Patrick’s Breastplate (see pg 18)
THE ACCLAMATION
Ambrosian chant
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS Missa Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.
Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam: Domine Deus, Rex cælestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine fili unigenite Jesu Christe, Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.
Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, and we give thanks to you for your great glory: Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. You, who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
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THE COLLECT OF THE DAY
Celebrant The Lord be with you.
People And also with you.
Celebrant Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
All are seated.
THE
FIRST LESSON Isaiah 6:1-8
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.” The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!”
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
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All remain seated for the canticle. The refrain is intoned by a cantor, then repeated by the congregation and sung as indicated.
CANTICLE 13
Plainsong, Mode II
Glory to you, Lord God of our fathers; * you are worthy of praise; glory to you.
Glory to you for the radiance of your holy Name; * we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. Refrain
Glory to you in the splendor of your temple; * on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.
Glory to you, seated between the Cherubim; * we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. Refrain
Glory to you, beholding the depths; * in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.
Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; * we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. Refrain
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THE SECOND LESSON Romans 8:12-17
So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ-- if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
SEQUENCE HYMN 473 · Crucifer (see pg 19) Sung by all, standing.
ALLELUIA
Plainsong, Mode VIII
The Gospel procession makes its way to the pulpit. A Cantor intones the Alleluia, and the congregation repeats it once, then again following the Versicle.
V. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; to God who is, and who was, and who is to come.
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GOSPEL John 3:1-17
Deacon The Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. People Glory to you, Lord Christ.
There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
Deacon The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise to you, Lord Christ.
THE SERMON The Reverend Andrew Ancona
THE
HOLY
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NICENE CREED Hymnal S105
Calvin Hampton
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
The Deacon reads the intercessions for the parish. Then the leader says With all our heart and with all our mind, let us pray to the Lord, saying, “Lord, have mercy.”
For the peace of the world, for the welfare of the holy Church of God, and for the unity of all peoples, let us pray to the Lord.
For Justin, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael, our Presiding Bishop, Matthew, Allen, and Mary, our own Bishops, and for all the clergy and people, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
For Joe, our President, Kathy, our Governor, Eric, our Mayor, for the leaders of the nations, and for all in authority, let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy.
For this city, for every city and community, and for those who live in them, let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy.
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For the good earth which God has given us, and for the wisdom and will to conserve it, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
For the aged and infirm, for the widowed and orphans, for the sick and the suffering, and for those who care for them, let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy.
For the poor and the oppressed, for the unemployed and the destitute, for prisoners and captives, and for all who remember and care for them, let us pray to the Lord. Lord, have mercy.
For all who have died in the hope of the resurrection, and for all the departed, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
For deliverance from all danger, violence, oppression, and degradation, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
For the guidance and wisdom of the Holy Spirit as we work towards an anti-racist society and for racial justice in our church, our city, our nation and in the world, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
That we may end our lives in faith and hope, without suffering and without reproach, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
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In the communion of the Blessed Virgin Mary, holy mother of God, Saint Luke, our patron and of all the saints, let us commend ourselves, and one another, and all our life, to Christ our God.
The Celebrant concludes with a Collect.
THE CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION OF SIN
Deacon Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.
The People kneel or bow. All say Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.
The Celebrant says Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen.
THE PEACE
Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you.
Then the Ministers and People greet each other in the name of the Lord.
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AT THE OFFERTORY, ANTHEM
G.P. da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Benedictus sit Deus Pater, unigenitusque Dei Filius, Sanctus quoque Spiritus, quia fecit nobiscum misericordiam suam.
Blessed be God the Father and the only-begotten Son of God, and the Holy Spirit; for he has dealt with us according to his mercy.
OFFERTORY HYMN 366 (stanzas 1-4) · Grosser Gott (see pg 20) All stand.
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
Eucharistic Prayer A, The Book of Common Prayer, p. 361
The Celebrant continues: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. For with your co-eternal Son and Holy Spirit, you are one God, one Lord, in Trinity of Persons and in Unity of Being: and we celebrate the one and equal glory of you, O Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven, who for ever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of your Name.
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SANCTUS
& BENEDICTUS Missa Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera
Orlande de Lassus
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
All are invited to stand or kneel while the Eucharistic Prayer is read by the Celebrant. Midway through the Eucharistic Prayer, the Celebrant says Therefore we proclaim the mystery of faith;
Celebrant and People Christ has died.
Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
The Celebrant concludes. By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. Amen.
THE
LORD’S PRAYER Hymnal S149
McNeil Robinson II
THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD
The Celebrant breaks the bread. A short period of silence follows.
FRACTION
ANTHEM Hymnal S172
Ambrosian chant
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Celebrant The gifts of God for the people of God.
This is the Lord’s Table. All are encouraged to come forward at this time. Gluten free wafers are available from the Priest on the pulpit side of the altar. If you are not baptized, or do not wish to receive, you are encouraged to come forward for a blessing. Signal this by crossing your arms across your chest.
AGNUS DEI Missa Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera
Orlande de Lassus
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
COMMUNION MOTET
Orlande de Lassus
Tibi laus, tibi gloria, tibi gratiarum actio in saecula sempiterna, O beata Trinitas.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
To thee be honor, glory, and worship throughout eternity, O blessed Trinity.
POSTCOMMUNION HYMN 367 · Rustington (see pg 21)
Sung by all, standing.
INVITATION
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POSTCOMMUNION PRAYER
Said by all.
Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
SOLEMN TE DEUM
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
We praise Thee, O God; we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship Thee, the Father everlasting. To Thee all angels cry aloud, the heav’ns and all the powers therein. To Thee cherubim and seraphim continually do cry: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of Thy glory. The glorious company of the Apostles praise Thee. The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee. The noble army of martyrs of praise Thee. The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge Thee: the Father of an infinite majesty; Thine adorable, true, and only Son; also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. Day by day we magnify Thee; and we worship Thy name ever, world without end.
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THE TRINITY BLESSING
The Lord bless you and keep you. Amen.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you. Amen.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen.
The Lord God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the holy and undivided Trinity, guard you, save you, and bring you to that heavenly City, where he lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
THE DISMISSAL
The Deacon dismisses the People.
People
POSTLUDE Alla Marcia
Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
The organist at this service is Jennifer Griesbach. The choir director at this service is Phillip Cheah.
Please refrain from applause at the end of the postlude, to respect the devotional practices of others.
A brief service of prayer with laying on of hands for healing follows this service, at the votive icon.
Music is reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #733601-A. All rights reserved. 16 SEASON AFTER PENTECOST
PROCESSIONAL HYMN 370 (stanzas 1-5) · St. Patrick’s Breastplate
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INTROIT HYMN 370 (stanzas 6-7) · St. Patrick’s Breastplate
SEQUENCE HYMN 473 · Crucifer
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OFFERTORY HYMN 366 (stanzas 1-4) · Grosser Gott
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POSTCOMMUNION HYMN
About the music at today’s service
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) was born at Mons (in present-day Belgium) but spent his formative years in Italy. His parents had eventually allowed him to leave home at the age of twelve, to join the household of Ferdinando Gonzaga, Viceroy of Sicily, as a boy treble. In 1553 he was appointed maestro di cappella at the Lateran Basilica in Rome but left after six months to return to his dying parents in Flanders. In 1556 he was engaged by the Duke of Bavaria as a singer and joined the Court Chapel in Munich where Ludwig Daser was Kapellmeister. In about 1563 Lassus was promoted to the latter post, which he occupied until his death.
He achieved enormous success as a composer of both sacred and secular music which appeared throughout Europe in more than 500 different contemporary publications. He was granted a patent of nobility and coat of arms in 1570 by Maximilian and created a Knight of the Golden Spur by Pope Gregory XIII in 1574. He was capable of writing in any and every genre current in his lifetime (although he wrote little purely instrumental music) from villanellae at one extreme to massive polychoral motets at the other. His output was prodigious, his technique impeccable, the level of inspiration consistently high, and he was in charge of the largest musical establishment of the late 16th century which totaled over 70 singers and players at its peak.
Lassus composed fifty-eight masses. The Missa super Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera is one of three masses scored for double choir and dates from the late 1570’s or early 1580’s. It is based on a madrigal that is so far unidentified but possibly Venetian. The construction of the mass suggests that in performance Lassus’s
choirs were not spaced far apart: the textural contrasts as likely to be between groups drawn from both choirs as between the two SATB choirs themselves.
The music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-94) has long been considered the ideal representation of Counter-Reformation ideals in church music, marked as it is by expressive restraint, strictly controlled polyphony, harmonic clarity, elegant melodic writing (owing much to Gregorian chant) and utmost attention to proper accentuation of the words. Palestrina’s career began promisingly when his first patron, Cardinal Maria del Monte, Bishop of Palestrina (the composer’s birthplace) became Pope Julius III in 1550 and appointed the young composer maestro of the prestigious Cappella Giulia. Through the Pope’s influence, Palestrina also joined the Cappella Sistina in 1555 without an audition or the consent of the other singers, and despite his being married, all of which violated the organization’s constitution. Later that year, Palestrina was dismissed from his position in the papal chapel by Pope Paul IV, a stern reformer who re-invoked the requirement that papal singers be unmarried.
For the next 15 years, the composer worked at several Roman churches before being reappointed maestro of the Cappella Giulia in 1571, a post he retained until his death. Palestrina’s later years were marked by a series of publications in which he systematically refashioned and replaced the sacred repertory in light of the Tridentine liturgical reforms. The motet Benedicta sit Deus is from a collection of 68 proper offertories published in 1593 Rome in two volumes.
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Orlando Gibbons was born at Oxford in 1583. As a young man, he sang in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, during his brother Edward’s tenure as Master of the Choristers. In 1605, he won for himself a place in the Chapel Royal choir, and by 1615 was sharing the duties of organist there. In 1623, he became organist of Westminster Abbey. He died an untimely death at the age of 42.
Gibbons’ Short Service is perhaps the most interesting of its kind. If the number of manuscripts in which it survives is anything to go by, then his contemporaries thought highly of it as well. The somewhat confusing term “Service” is used by the Anglican church to describe musical settings of the canticles for Mattins (Morning Prayer) and Evensong, and settings of certain parts of the Ordinary for Holy Communion. Thus, a “Morning Service” would include settings of some or all of the canticles for Mattins: the Venite, Te Deum, Benedictus Dominus Deus, Benedicite and Jubilate. A “Short” Service (as opposed to a “Great” Service or a “Verse” Service) is a relatively simple and straightforward setting of the text, usually in four parts, with little if any repetition of the words (more or less ‘for every syllable a note’). The Te Deum heard today is one such canticle.
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SUNDAY MAY 26 Trinity Sunday
9:15 am Holy Eucharist*
10:20 am Sunday School & Text Talk
11:15 am Holy Eucharist*
MONDAY MAY 27
Block closed in observance of Memorial Day
TUESDAY MAY 28
12:00 pm Holy Eucharist
7:00 pm AA Aud
WEDNESDAY MAY 29
12:00 pm Holy Eucharist
6:00 pm Vespers
6:45 pm Benedictine Group
7:30 pm Compline Laughlin Hall
7:00 pm AA Aud
THURSDAY MAY 30
12:00 pm Holy Eucharist
7:00 pm Friends of Shelly LH
7:00 pm Centering Prayer Zoom
FRIDAY MAY 31
12:00 pm Holy Eucharist
6:00 pm Solemn Vespers
7:00 pm AA Aud
SATURDAY JUNE 1
2:00 pm Community Closet LH
4:00 pm Art & Acceptance Aud
SUNDAY JUNE 2 Proper 4
9:15 am Holy Eucharist*
10:20 am Sunday School & Text Talk 11:15 am Holy Eucharist*
* Childcare for children ages 6 and under is available.
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