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Festal Evensong
Sunday, December 11, 2011
4:00pm - Saint Thomas Church
Collect:
Stir up thy power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let thy bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be honor and glory, world without end. Amen.
Based on the services held daily in the medieval Church, Choral Evensong as arranged in the Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church has been sung regularly since the Sixteenth Century. Many people who are new to worship at Saint Thomas prefer to come to Choral Evensong because it is relatively passive. The service includes readings (just as would occur at Evening Prayer) and prayers led by a priest. An anthem as well as a setting of the Magnificat and the Nunc dimittis are sung by the choir. Read more about Choral Evensong here, or view the Choral Evensong Service Card posted to the bottom of this page, where links to the webcast will be posted during and after the service.
►There is no Mass following Choral Evensong on Sundays. If you would like to make your Holy Communion for the week, consider attending one of the morning Eucharists, or else at any of the other eleven masses at Saint Thomas later this week.
►If you haven't yet participated in the 2012 EMC, we encourage you to do so before the end of 2011. Also, gifts for needy children as part of the Angel Tree Project.
| Officiant: | Fr Mead |
| Preacher: | Fr Daniels |
| Lesson: | Isaiah 13:6-13 |
| Lesson 2: | II Thessalonians 2:1-3,13-17 |
| Sung by: | The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys |
| Prelude: | Hymnus de Adventu Domini: Veni redemptor gentium, Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) |
| Responses: | Michael Walsh (b. 1948) |
| Psalm: | 103, Anglican Chant (Tranchell) |
| Service: | The Service on Plainsong Tones, Arthur Wills (b. 1926) |
| Anthem: | Vox dicentis, Edward W. Naylor (1867-1934) |
| Voluntary: | Chorale Prelude on ‘Rorate coeli’, Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) |
| Hymn: |
67 Comfort, comfort ye my people PSALM 42 |
| Hymn 2: |
60 Creator of the stars of night CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM |
| Hymn 3: |
54 Savior of the nations, come NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND |
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