Sunday, January 1, 2016

Service Music: New Plainsong, David Hurd

• Organ: Toccata in G Major – Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)
• Opening Hymn: 143 Angels, from the Realms of Glory
• Psalm: 8 (said)
• Gradual Hymn: 158 Earth Has Many a Noble City
• Offertory Hymn: 132 Of Eternal Love Begotten
• Anthem: As I Walked in Bethlehem – William Henry Anderson (1882-1955)

As I walked in Bethlehem
About the break of day,
Underneath a rosy sky
The little houses lay,
And much I marvelled that the town,
Veiled in morning mist
Should seem as walled in chrysophase
And roofed with amethyst.

As I walked in Bethlehem
(And there I walked alone),
Such gladness filled my beating heart
As I had never known
Broader seemed the narrow streets
As brighter grew the day
I heard the bells of heav’n ring out
From not so far away

As I walked in Bethlehem
Before the sun was high,
A woman’s crooning voice I heard,
I heard a baby’s cry.
And glory, glory! sang my soul
The while I thought and trod
Between the lifted gates of pearl,
The golden streets of God.

-Text by Audrey Alexandra Brown

• Communion Hymn: 146 ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
• Closing Hymn: 135 Shepherds in the Field Abiding
• Organ: Noël Parisien, Op. 26, No. 4 – Charles Quef (1873-1931)

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Christmas Day - Sunday, December 25, 2016

• Opening Carol: 148 See Amid the Winter’s Snow
• Offertory Carol: 122 In the Bleak Midwinter
• Closing Carol: 153 Good Christians All, Rejoice

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Christmas Eve, 10pm - Saturday, December 24, 2016

Service Music: Missa Brevis No. 4 in E Major (Based on the Christmas Sequence: Corde Natus
Ex Parentis) – Healey Willan (1880-1968)

• Organ: A la Venue de Noël – Pierre Dandrieu (1664-1733)
• Opening Carol: 118 O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Kyrie (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison, Christe eleison, Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison

• Gloria: Hymn 365 (Darwall)

Glory to God on high, and peace to all on earth. We worship you, we give you thanks, our heavenly King. We give you praise, almighty God and Father blessed in glory bright. Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Father’s only Son, the sacrificial Lamb, who saves the world from sin, have mercy Lord. Beside the Father’s hand entrhroned, now hear our prayer. You only are the Lord. You only are most high. You only are the holy one, Lord Jesus Christ. And now you reign with Father and with Spirit one in glorious light.

• Psalm 96 (Anglican Chant)
• Carol: 139 The First Nowell (vv. 1-4)
• Gradual Carol: 119 Silent Night
• Offertory Carol: 140 It Came upon the Midnight Clear
• Anthem: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Old French melody arr. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand,
Christ our Lord to earth descendeth our full homage to demand.

King of Kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth He stood,
Lord of Lords, in human vesture in the Body and the Blood
He will give to all the faithful His own Self for heavenly food.

Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way
As the light descendeth from the realms of endless day
That the pow’rs of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away.

At His feet the six-winged seraph; Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the Presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry,
Alleluya, Alleluya, Alleluya Lord most High. Amen.

-Words translated from the Greek by G. Moultrie

• Sanctus & Benedictus (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts,
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory:
Glory be to thee, O Lord, Most high.
Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.

• Agnus Dei (sung by the choir) – Healey Willan

O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

• Communion Carols: 137 What Child Is This; 121 O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Communion Motet: “Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child” (from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248) – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

And this is the sign to you:
Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
and lying in a manger.
Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child,
Make Thee a bed, soft, undefil’d,
Within my heart, and there recline,
And keep that chamber ever Thine.

• Concluding Carol: 138 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Organ: Toccata in D Minor – Alphonse Mailly (1833-1918)

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Christmas Eve, 4pm (Family Service) - Saturday, December 24, 2016

• Carol: Once in Royal David’s City
• Carol: Away in a Manger
• Offertory Carol: Hark! The Herald-Angels Sing
• Carol: Silent Night
• Carol: Infant Holy
• Carol: Joy to the World

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Advent 4 - December 18, 2016 –

Service Music: Mass of St. Denis – Barrie Cabena

• Organ: Variations on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” - Konrad Harley
• Opening Hymn: 91 People, Look East!
• Psalm: 80:1-7, 16-18 (Plainsong)
• Offertory Hymn: 111 Herald! Sound the Note of Judgement
• Anthem: Christ Is the World’s True Light – J. S. Bach, arr. John Cook

Christ is the world’s true Light,
Its Captain of salvation,
The Daystar clear and bright
Of ev’ry man and nation;
New life, new hope awakes,
Where’er men own his sway:
Freedom her bondage breaks,
And night is turned to day.
In Christ all races meet,
Their ancient feuds forgetting,
The whole round world complete,
From sunrise to its setting:
When Christ is throned as Lord,
Men shall forsake their fear,
To ploughshare beat the sword,
To pruning-hook the spear.
One Lord, in one great name
Unite us all who own thee;
Cast out our pride and shame
That hinder to enthrone thee;
The world has waited long,
Has travailed long in pain;
To heal its ancient wrong,
Come, Prince of Peace, and reign. -Text by G.W. Briggs

• Communion Hymn: Nac, Jezu (Come, Jesus) – Adolfs Abele (1889-1967)  

Come, Jesus, You are our helper, our trustworthy guide
who finds the straight path and leads us through the difficulties of life.

• Closing Hymn: 116 “Your Kingdom Come”—On Bended Knee
• Organ: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (From God Shall Nought Divide Me), BWV 658 – J. S. Bach

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Advent 3 - December 11, 2016

• Service Music: Mass of St. Denis – Barrie Cabena
  • Organ: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
  • Opening Hymn: 109 When the King Shall Come Again
  • Canticle: 18 (Luke 1:47-55): Hymn 362 Tell Out, My Soul
  • Gospel Acclamation: 716
  • Offertory Hymn: 105 Where Jordan Cuts the Wilderness
  • Anthem: O Come, Let Us Worship – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765-1814)

  O come, let us worship, and kneel before the Lord our Maker;
  O come, let us worship, come let us kneel before the Lord,
  For He is the Lord our God.

  • Communion Hymn: O Thou, the True and Only Light! (from St. Paul) - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

  O Thou, the true and only Light!
  Direct the souls that walk in night,
  and bring them ‘neath thy shelt’ring care,
  To find their blest Redemption there.
  Illumine those who blindly roam,
  Oh! call the wand’rer kindly home.
  The hearts astray that union crave,
  and those in doubt, confirm and save!

  • Closing Hymn: 108 Hark, a Herald Voice Is Sounding
  • Organ: Fantasia in G Minor, BWV 542 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

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