The Fifth Sunday of Easter 2 May 2021
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter 2 May 2021 In-Person & Live-Streamed High Mass at 10:00 a.m. Low Mass at 8:00 a.m. The Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint John the Evangelist Newport, Rhode Island Music Notes The opening voluntary is from the last of Widor’s ten organ symphonies, based on the Easter Day plainsong hymn Haec Dies (This is the day that the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it.) The hymn is repeated constantly in several sections, surrounding an interlude played high on flutes suggesting the singing of birds. The opening hymn is arranged from one of Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs on Eastertide texts, premiered in 1911. Its poetry (by George Herbert) was perhaps inspired by today’s collect. Missa Zabriskie is a new congregational Mass setting based on the hymn Sweet Sacrament Divine, dedicated to The People of The Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Newport, Rhode Island (Past, Present, and Future). The work was written for use in the transition to our 15th Rector after the eight-year tenure of Father Humphrey, who introduced Stanfield’s hymn to the composer and congregation and whose vision of both the Eucharist and the provision of music to support it, inclusive of the people’s song, has been a particular inspiration. Stanfield was an English priest who worked in London’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster. He published over a dozen devotional hymns including one set to a tune written in about 1878 by Edward Elgar, another famous Roman Catholic composer. Stanfield’s father, the prominent marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, was named for the slave trade abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and was a friend of Charles Dickens. The devout Stanfields were known not just for brilliance in their respective art-forms but also for their “personal simplicity and modesty.” The organ part of the Gloria contains two hymns for Maundy Thursday: Pange Lingua and Ubi caritas. Missa Zabriskie will be taught over the coming weeks so that we may sing it confidently when able to return to full worship in person. It’s fun to say Missa Zabriskie out loud (try it), honoring the namesake parishioner who caused our present building and organ to be built in 1894 at a time when a fledgling nineteen-year old congregation in financial straits might have perished. The offertory anthem was written by Wesley during his youthful and brief tenure (1832-1835) as organist of Hereford Cathedral, for an Easter Sunday service for which only boy sopranos and one bass (the Dean’s butler!) were available. Despite this inauspicious beginning it is probably his best known anthem and is still in wide use today. Its center section is often excerpted, and the rousing conclusion announced by a loud organ chord gives a wonderful summary of the Eastertide message conveyed earlier by colorfully accompanied recitatives. The closing hymn is sung to several different tunes, among them Beecher, Hyfrydol and Blaenwern. The Blaenwern tune, named after a farm in Wales known to its composer, is that most commonly sung in England today, and has been sung at both of the recent royal weddings. The tune gained popularity in America through Billy Graham crusades when it was sung to “What a Friend we have in Jesus.” Copyright and Recording Notices: The hymns, Vidi Aquam, anthems, and Lord’s Prayer were recorded in past services and provided by St. John’s choir member Christopher Scott. The Gospel Acclamation was recorded at Hereford Cathedral during the choir’s tour of England in summer of 2018. The Mass setting was recorded in the church in March 2021. The Vidi Aquam is as included on the recording Strength, Joy, and Peace – A Choral Year at St. John’s. Christ our Passover © 1986, Paraclete Press. All music graphics reproduced from The Hymnal 1982 and The Hymnal 1940 are copyright The Church Pension Fund, reproduced by permission of the Rite Song License of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. All other graphics are proprietary to St. John’s or in the public domain. All rights reserved. Reproduced under One License, License #734228-A. Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained: One License, #734228-A. Until further notice, everyone sitting in the nave is required to wear a face covering at all times when in the church building, especially during the sermon and any music, which must be sung softly while the face covering is in place. The Fifth Sunday of Easter The Mass setting today is Missa Zabriskie by Peter Stoltzfus Berton (born 1968). Voluntary Chorale on Haec Dies (from Symphonie Romane) Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Opening Hymn Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life The Easter Acclamation Vidi Aquam Mode VIII, arr. Peter Stoltzfus Berton I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, Alleluia. It brought God’s life, and his salvation, and the people sang in joyful praise: Alleluia, alleluia. 1 The Gloria in excelsis Celebrant: Glory be to God on high 2 Collect of the Day Celebrant People Celebrant The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. O Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leadeth to eternal life; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. First Lesson (sitting) Acts 8:26-40 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. 3 Epistle (sitting) 1 John 4:7-21 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.