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TRINITY SUNDAY
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MAY 18, 2008
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FESTAL EUCHARIST - 11 a. m.
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Missa Trinitatis Sanctae
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Francis Grier
(b. 1955)
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Prelude
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Gloria tibi Trinitas (6 verses)
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William Blitheman
(d. 1591)
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The Opening Acclamation and the Collect for Purity Gloria in excelsis
The Collect of the Day
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The Lesson
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Genesis 1:1–2:3
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Psalm 150
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Anglican Chant (Talbot)
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(Sung by the Choir. The People remain seated.)
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O praise God in his holiness:* praise him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise him in his noble acts:* praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet:* praise him upon the lute and harp.
4 Praise him in the timbrels and dances:* praise him upon the strings and pipe.
5 Praise him upon the well-tuned cymbals:* praise him upon the loud cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath* praise the Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,* and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,* world without end. Amen.
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The Epistle
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II Corinthians 13:5-14
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The Nicene Creed
The Prayers of the People (Pleae kneel.)
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Lord, have mercy.
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The Confession and Absolution
The Peace
The Greetings (Please be seated.)
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At the Offertory, Anthem
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Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
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“The Cherubic Hymn”
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We who figure forth the Cherubim in a mystery:
we who laud and praise the quickening Trinity,
singing the hymn thrice holy,
we who sing the hymn to the quickening Trinity;
now let us lay aside every earthly care. Amen.
Let us raise on high to the King of all our oblation,
by the Angelic host invisibly upborne. Alleluia.
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from The Russian Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
The Doxology, Hymn 380 Stanza 3
and United Thank Offering |
OLD 100TH |
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Said by all, standing.
Heavenly Father, source of all creation, all love, all true joy, accept, we pray, these outward signs of our profound and continuing thankfulness for all of life. Bless those who will benefit from these gifts through the outreach of the United Thank Offering; and keep each of us ever thankful for all the blessings of joy and challenge that come our way; through him who is the greatest gift and blessing of all, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
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Sanctus and Benedictus
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The Breaking of the Bread
Invitation to Communion
All baptized Christians are invited to receive Holy Communion.
The Sacrament is distributed at the High Altar and, for convenience and accessibility,
also at the Chantry Chapel Altar.
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At the Communion, Agnus Dei
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and Anthem
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John Sheppard (c. 1515-1560)
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Libera nos, salva nos, justifica nos, O beata Trinitas.
Deliver us, save us, forgive us, O most blessed Trinity.
Antiphon for Trinity Sunday
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The Postcommunion Prayer
The Blessing and Dismissal |
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Hymn 371
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MOSCOW
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Voluntary
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Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552
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Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
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Prelude
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Adagio, from Symphony No. 3
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Louis Vierne
(1870-1937)
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Hymn 34
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INISFREE FARM
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| Versicles and Responses |
Michael Walsh (b. 1948)
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| Psalm 11 Page 482 |
Anglican Chant (Woodward) |
| The Lessons |
Ecclesiasticus 43:1-12, 27-33 and Revelation 19:4-16 |
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WAS LEBET |
| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis |
The St. Paul’s ServiceHerbert Howells (1892-1983)
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The Greetings
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(Please be seated.)
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At the Offering, Anthem
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John Stainer (1840-1901)
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I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, Holy, Holy, Holy is the
Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
O Trinity! O Unity!
Be present as we worship thee;
And with the songs that angels sing
Unite the hymns of praise we bring.
Amen.
Isaiah 6:1-4, Tenth Century Latin Hymn
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Psalm 150 (Sung by the Choir)
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Anglican Chant (Talbot)
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Voluntary
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O lux beata Trinitas
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621)
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The flowers today are offered to the glory of God and in memory of the following:
Thomas Albert Bain, Charles Valentine Faile, Sarah Crane Faile,
Margaret Crane Hurlbut, Ida May Ives and The Rev’d Leslie John Lang.
MUSIC NOTES
Francis Grier was born in Malaysia in 1955 and was a chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, becoming a music scholar at Eton College, and then organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge. On leaving Cambridge, he became assistant organist to Simon Preston at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and succeeded him as Organist and Tutor of Music at the age of 25. In 1985 he resigned his appointments in order to explore other options that are unavailable to full-time musicians: he studied music, meditation and theology in India, and then worked with mentally-handicapped persons in London and Bangalore. Since 1989 he has been based in England, and continues to compose and perform, as well as maintain an active career as a psychotherapist. Missa Trinitatis Sanctae was composed for the Choir of Westminster Abbey in 1991.
5:15 P.M. ORGAN RECITAL
Frederick Teardo
Sunday Services: 8, 9, 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday Services: 8 a.m., 12:10 and 5:30 p.m.
(The Tuesday 12:10 p.m. Eucharist includes a healing service.)
Saturday Eucharist: 12:10 p.m.
The clergy are available to hear confessions by appointment.
SUNDAY, MAY 25
11 A.M. FESTAL EUCHARIST
Sermon by The Reverend Victor Lee Austin
PARISH NOTICES
Please Note: Unauthorized recordings at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue are prohibited.
All, including our young people, are invited to the Living Room and Dining Room of the Parish House to join in fellowship at a coffee hour following the 11 a.m. service.
Nursery care is available for infants and young children. Parents may bring their children to the third floor of the Parish House before the 11 a.m. liturgy. The Saint Thomas Nursery now has Parent Pagers for parents of infants and young children. If you wish to receive a pager, please tell the nursery staff when you arrive to drop off your child.
The Saint Thomas Young Adults, adults near their twenties and thirties, continues a Bible Study on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians next Wednesday, May 28, from 7:30-9 p.m. We will meet at Saint Thomas Church in the dining room on the second floor of the Parish House.
There is a guided tour of the Church following the voluntary at the end of the 11 a.m. service. All who wish to join the tour are asked to meet the tour guide by the gallery stairs in the Narthex.
The Bookstore, located on the first floor of the Parish House, is open today following the 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. services. Continuing in stock: A Song for Every Morning: Dedication and defiance with St Patrick’s Breastplate by John Davies; A Short World History of Christianity by Robert Bruce Mullin; O Clap Your Hands: A Musical Tour of Sacred Choral Works by Gordon Giles; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John for Everyone by N.T. Wright and the Choir’s CD Easter on Fifth Avenue. Major credit cards are accepted.
Though Sunday School is in recess for the summer, Vacation Bible School 2008 “Rainforest Adventure” will take place Tuesday July 22 - Saturday July 26. The curriculum comes from the same publisher that brought us last year’s “Great Bible Reef.” If you would like more information about VBS this summer, please contact Father Erdman at 212.757.7013 or jerdman@SaintThomasChurch.org.
Saint Thomas Soup Kitchen volunteers gather every Saturday morning at 9:30 in the Parish House (One West Fifty-third Street). Approximately 300 bag lunches are prepared for distribution to the homeless along the streets of mid-Manhattan. Distribution is usually completed by 12:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to assist in this lay ministry. High school students are invited to earn three hours community service. For more information, please contact Frank Reinauer (212.249.4026).
Myanmar Cyclone Relief Effort: Episcopal Relief and Development (formerly the Presiding Bishop’s Fund for World Relief) is providing emergency assistance to communities in Myanmar affected by Cyclone Nargis. Working with its partner, the Anglican Church of Burma, ERD is sending funds to secure shelter, food, water and other relief needs for people displaced by the cyclone. Parishoners who would like to contribute to this effort should write a check to Saint Thomas Church and indicate in the memo section “Cyclone relief”. You may either mail the check to Barbara Pettus at the Church or leave your donation in the collection plate.
Wednesday at 12:10 p.m., as part of the midday Eucharist, Father Austin will give a short talk that picks up some aspect of everyday life here at Saint Thomas and/or in New York City. The service, including the talk, concludes by 12:35.
ADULT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
On Sundays through May, Father Austin is offering a class on Friendship and Christian Thought. This class is an opportunity to explore of some of the questions that Christian faith raises about friendship, and some of the changes that Christian faith makes to friendship. It meets at 10 a.m. on the fifth floor of the Parish House; coffee and tea are in the room.
The Practical Prayer class will meets at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20; this week only, the class will be on the fifth floor of the Parish House. The class is especially for those who have not found prayer to be a particularly rewarding experience. And first-timers are welcome. The text (available in the Saint Thomas Church Bookstore) is Simon Tugwell, Prayer in Practice, with chapters 1 through 4 recommended for this week’s class.
Metaphysical Poets: A new four-week course will start Sunday, June 1, led by our parishioner Dr. Robert Duvall. Everyone is welcome to the fifth floor at 10 a.m. for explorations of the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Hopkins and Eliot.
Books for all classes are available in the Saint Thomas Bookstore. If you would like weekly email updates concerning theology at Saint Thomas, drop a line to vaustin@SaintThomasChurch.org.
ASSISTING CLERGY
The Reverend Robert H. Stafford, STM, Pastor
The Reverend Victor Lee Austin, Ph.D, Theologian-in-residence
The Reverend Jonathan M. Erdman, M.Div, Youth Minister
The Reverend Canon John Andrew, OBE, DD, Rector Emeritus
THE STAFF
John Scott, LVO, D.Mus., Organist and Director of Music
Frederick Teardo, Associate Organist
Max Henderson-Begg, Verger and Manager of Communications
Edward J. Givins, Assistant Verger
Barbara W. Pettus, Executive Director of Administration and Finance
Ann H. Kaplan, Director of Development
Douglas M. Robbe, Secretary to The Rector
HONORARY CLERGY
The Reverend Canon Harold R. Landon, Honorary Assistant
The Reverend David F. McNeeley, Honorary Assistant
The Reverend William A. Norgren, Honorary Assistant
The Reverend John C. Smith, Honorary Assistant
The Reverend Ivan Weiser, Honorary Assistant
The Reverend Canon Prof. J. Robert Wright, Honorary Assistant
PARISH OFFICES
One West 53rd Street
New York, New York 10019
Church Telephone 212.757.7013
www.saintthomaschurch.org
inquiries@SaintThomasChurch.org
THE SAINT THOMAS CHOIR SCHOOL
202 West 58th Street
New York, New York 10019
A boarding school for choristers in grades 3 - 8
For information:
Choir School Telephone 212.247.3311
The Reverend Charles F. Wallace, Headmaster
www.ChoirSchool.org
THE VESTRY
Mr. William H. A. Wright II, Warden
Mr. Kenneth F. Koen, Warden
Mr. Willem Brans
Mr. Colin Fergus
Miss Jean Cameron Grainger
Mrs. Kazie Metzger Harvey
Mr. Fred T. Isquith, Clerk
Miss Linda Ellen Ketchum
Mr. W. Michael Margolin
Mr. Jon Meacham
Miss Karen Metcalf
Mr. William R. Miller, OBE
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