Music Notes - Last Pentecost, Christ the King, Nov. 21, 2010
Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI
Last Sunday after Pentecost (Christ the King)
Green – November 21, 2010 - Year C – RCL
Choir call 8:45 to rehearse for the
10 AM Eucharist
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Hymn 494 Crown him with many crowns Diademata
Gloria S-280 Setting: Robert Powell
Canticle 4 Anglican Chant sung by the Choir & Choristers
Sequence Hymn 382 King of Glory, King of peace General Seminary
Anthem Rejoice Today W. Glen Darst
Presentation Hymn 290 Come ye thankful people come St. George’s Windsor
The Great Thanksgiving - Sursum Corda
Eucharistic Prayer A
Sanctus S-125 Setting: Richard Proulx
Lords Prayer
Fraction Anthem S 164 Jesus, Lamb of God Agnus Dei Schubert, arr. R. Proulx
Grace before meals arr. Murray Somerville
Communion Hymns 458 My sung is love unknown Love Unknown
Dismissal Hymn 544 Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Duke Street
Music Notes: This Sunday is The Last Sunday after Pentecost (also known as The Feast of Christ the King) and it is the last Sunday of our church calendar, Liturgical year. Advent starting next week on November 28th, launches into a new year with ‘Year A’ lectionary readings. But before that, we celebrate our national day of Thanksgiving and the ultimate reign of Christ the King over all, (as depicted over the nave entry door), in fulfillment of the Gospel and the redemption from God for forgiveness to live anew in His peace and enjoyment of His creation. It is quite fitting that our day of national Thanksgiving often falls in between The Feast of Christ the King and the beginning of a new year with The First Sunday of Advent, which starts off with a more penitential, serious mood in expectation of the coming of Christ, born into the world at Christmas. The celebration of thanks is not only for the blessings of good harvests, good health and general prosperity, but also for the completion of another year of grace in God through Christ Jesus. Then, we commence the cycle again, adjusting our liturgy to sing the ‘Trisagion’ pronounced tree-sahn-yan, at the beginning of our worship and the singing of psalms to the earliest music of the church, chant, specifically Psalm Tone VIII. The choir will offer these in a style that is solemn, softly serene and at ease, to be reflective of the quiet expectation that God does and will… ‘…come to us...’ in Emmanuel. But first and again, Thanksgiving…Our anthem Sunday, a Thanksgiving and General use, 3-part choral work, is by W. Glen Darst. The text celebrates the ‘…our mighty Lord, whose arm brought salvation…’ and later imploring us to ‘…trust in Him, His love is all sustaining…’ concluding, ‘His works of love proclaim the greatness of his Name; for he is God alone; let all his saints adore him!’ Sadly, I was unable to find out much of anything about Mr. Darst except for his dates (1896 – 1986), and that he may have been connected with the University of Texas. Usually a Google search turns up a wealth of information on Wikipedia. After the anthem we‘ll sing, ‘Come, ye thankful people, come,’ at the Presentation, a fitting hymn depicting all the elements of thanks for today and this coming week, our offering to God, and the gifts of Bread and Wine. May this music and all of our hymns and liturgy be for us a lastly symbol of thanks and joy today and all through the week of Thanksgiving.
Peace and see you at worship – AJH
The Chorister Creed & Prayer
‘I will sing with the spirit and with understanding also’
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 14:15
Bless, O Lord, us your servants who minister in your temple;
Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts,
And what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
