Monday, July 23, 2012

Pentecost IX - 29 July 2012

  • Organ Prelude: Meditation on the name of BACH – Herbert Brewer
  • Opening Hymn 435 “Take my life, and let it be” (Mozart)
  • Offertory Hymn 455 “Dear God, compassionate and true” (Repton)
  • Final Hymn 434 “The love of Jesus calls us” (Aurelia)
  • Organ Postlude:  Toccatinetto - Christopher Tambling

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Pentecost VIII - July 22, 2012

  • Organ Prelude:  Lament (from ‘Heroic Suite’) – Alec Rowley
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Opening Hymn 485 “Love divine, all loves excelling” (Hyfrydol #374)
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Offertory Hymn 59 “Jesus calls us here to meet him” (Jesus calls us)
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Final Hymn 592 “Where cross the crowded ways of life” (Walton)

  • Organ Postlude:  Prelude on ‘Hyfrydol’ – Healey Willan

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Pentecost VII - July 15, 2012

  • Organ Prelude:  Cantilene (from Sonata 11) – Josef Rheinberger
  • Opening Hymn 481 “May the grace of Christ our Saviour” (Halton Holgate)
  • Offertory Hymn 381 “Praise, my soul, the King of heaven” (Praise, my soul)
  • Final Hymn 365 “Glory to God on high” (Darwall)
  • Organ Postlude:  Sabbath Joy – Norman Warren

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Pentecost VI - July 8, 2012

  • Organ Prelude:  Prelude in E minor – J.S. Bach
  • Opening Hymn 560 “God, whose almighty word” (Moscow)
  • Offertory Hymn 546 “God moves in a mysterious way” (London New)
  • Final Hymn 527 “How firm a foundation” (St. Denio #393)
  • Organ Postlude:  Fugue in E minor – J.S. Bach

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Pentecost V / Canada Day - July 1, 2012

  • Organ Preludes: 
    • Elegie – Henri Gagnon 
 
    • Meditation Op. 6 – Joseph-Arthur Bernier 


  • Opening Hymn 394 “Eternal, unchanging” (St. Basil)

    • Words: Robert Balgarnie Young Scott (1899 - 1987)
 
    • Music: James Healey_Willan (1880 – 1968) 
  • National Anthem: 659 “O Canada” 
English 
    • Words: Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) and others

    • Music: Calixa Lavallee (1842-1891)


  • Offertory Hymn 532 “What a friend we have in Jesus” (Friendship)

    • Words: Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819 - 1886)

    • Music: Charles Crozat Converse (1832 - 1918) 
  • Organ Music During Communion: Petits Morceaux – Romain-Octave Pelletier
  • Final Hymn 572 “Let there be light” (Concord) 

    • Words: Frances Wheeler Davis (b1936)

    • Music: Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 – 1976)


  • Organ Postlude: Finale (from `Petit Suite`) – Gerald Bales 
  • Notes: In observance of Canada Day, all words and music (with one exception) of today’s hymns were written by Canadians, as well as all the organ music. The one exception is the music to `What a friend we have in Jesus` which was composed by American Charles Converse.