Day of Pentecost - Sunday, June 4, 2017

Service Music: A Community Mass (1971) – Richard Proulx

• Organ: Concerto in A Minor, III. Allegro – Antonio Vivaldi, transcribed for organ by J. S. Bach (as BWV 593)
• Opening Hymn: 637 Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire
• Psalm 104:25-35, 37
• Gradual Hymn: 250 Soaring Spirit, Set Us Free
• Offertory Hymn: 254 O God, the Holy Ghost
• Anthem: I Waited for the Lord – Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) (Soloists: Fiona Strachan, soprano; Virginia Wright, alto)

I waited for the Lord,
He inclined unto me, and heard my complaint.
O bless’d are thy that hope and trust in the Lord.

• Communion Hymn: 635 Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song
• Closing Hymn: 643 Holy Spirit, Come with Power
• Organ: Komm, heiliger Geist (Come, Holy Ghost), BWV 651 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

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Easter 7 - Sunday, May 28, 2017

Service Music: A Community Mass (1971) – Richard Proulx

• Organ: “Heut’ triumphiret Gottes Sohn” (Today the Son of God triumphs), BWV 630 (from Orgelbüchlein) – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Opening Hymn: 246 Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus
• Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36
• Gradual Hymn: 238 God’s Love Bursts into Bloom
• Offertory Hymn: 222 All Shall Be Well
• Anthem: O How Glorious (No. 2 of Six Motets) – Healey Willan

O how glorious is the kingdom wherein all the saints rejoice with Christ; clothed in white robes they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.

• Communion Hymn: 219 The Glory of Our King Was Seen
• Closing Hymn: 212 Alleluia! The Strife Is O’er
• Organ: Hymn Prelude on “Llanfair” (“Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise”) - Peter Pindar Stearns (1931-2016) (Hymn tune by Robert Williams, 1817)

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Easter 6 - Sunday, May 21, 2017

Service Music: Merbecke

• Organ: Chorale and Four Variations on “Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele” (Rejoice greatly, O my soul) - Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
• Opening Hymn: 319 Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs
• Psalm 66:7-18
• Gradual Hymn: 208 Thou Hallowed Chosen Morn of Praise
• Offertory Hymn: 215 Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
• Anthem: See What Love Hath the Father Bestow’d on Us in His Goodness (from St. Paul) - Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

See what love hath the Father bestow’d on us in his goodness,
that we should be called God’s own children.

    - (Text based on 1 John iii. 1)

• Communion Hymn: 241 Christians, to the Paschal Victim
• Closing Hymn: 371 To God Be the Glory
• Organ: Concerto in G Major, III. Presto - Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar, transcribed for organ by J. S. Bach (as BWV 592)

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Easter 5 - Sunday, May 14, 2017

Service Music: A Community Mass (1971) – Richard Proulx

• Organ: “Christ ist erstanden” (Christ is risen), BWV 627 (from Orgelbüchlein) – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Opening Hymn: 220 Christ Is Risen, Christ Is Risen
• Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16
• Gradual Hymn: 235 Myrrh-Bearing Mary
• Offertory Hymn: 225 Come Away to the Skies
• Anthem: Sunset to Sunrise Changes Now – Stanisław Moniuszko, arranged by Konrad Harley

Sunset to sunrise changes now, for God doth make the world anew;
On the Redeemer’s thorn-crowned brow the wonders of that dawn we view.
Even though the sun withholds its light, lo! a more heavenly lamp shines here,
And from the cross on Calvary’s height gleams of eternity appear.
Here in o’erwhelming final strife the Lord of life hath victory,
And sin is slain, and death brings life, and earth inherits heaven’s key.

    - Text by Clement of Alexandria (170-220);
      paraphrased by Howard Chandler Robbins (1876-1952)

• Communion Hymn:  234 Lift Your Voice Rejoicing, Mary
• Closing Hymn: 226 Through the Red Sea Brought at Last
• Organ: “Erstanden ist der heil’ge Christ” (Risen is the holy Christ), BWV 628 (from Orgelbüchlein) – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

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