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Choral Evensong with Installations and Commissioning THE CATHEDRAL AND METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY Choral Evensong with Installations and Commissioning Sunday 27th September 2020 5.30pm Nave Welcome to Canterbury Cathedral for this Service Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the cathedral church of the Diocese of Canterbury, the mother church of the Anglican Communion, and a place of pilgrimage welcoming visitors from across the world. For your safety Please keep social distance at all times Please stay in your seat as much as possible Please use hand sanitiser on the way in and out Please avoid touching your face and touching surfaces Cover Image: The west elevation of Canterbury Cathedral As part of our commitment to the care of the environment in our world, this Order of Service is printed on unbleached 100% recycled paper Please ensure that mobile phones are switched off. No form of visual or sound recording, or any form of photography, is permitted during Services. Thank you for your co-operation. An induction loop system for the hard of hearing is installed in the Cathedral. Hearing aid users should adjust their aid to T. Large print orders of service are available from the stewards and virgers. Please ask. Some material included in this service is copyright: © The Archbishops' Council 2000 © The Crown/Cambridge University Press: The Book of Common Prayer (1662) Hymns and songs reproduced under CCLI number: 1031280 Produced by the Music & Liturgy Department: [email protected] 01227 865281 www.canterbury-cathedral.org ORDER OF SERVICE Stand as the procession enters the Nave The Dean welcomes the congregation The Precentor and choir sing the Preces O Lord, open thou our lips and our mouth shall shew forth thy praise. O God, make speed to save us. O Lord, make haste to help us. 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. Praise ye the Lord. The Lord’s name be praised. Music: Plainsong Sit as the choir sings Psalm 124 If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick : when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us : and the stream had gone over our soul. The deep waters of the proud : had gone even over our soul. But praised be the Lord : who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth. Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler : the snare is broken, and we are delivered. Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Stand 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. Sit First Lesson Ezekiel 37. 15-end The word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the Israelites associated with it’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with it’; and join them together into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’ say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with it; and I will put the stick of Judah upon it, and make them one stick, in order that they may be one in my hand. When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms. They shall never again defile themselves with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have fallen, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God. My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes. They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them for evermore. My dwelling-place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Then the nations shall know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them for evermore. The Collations & Licensing Please remain seated The Candidates move to stand before the Archbishop The Vice Dean presents the Candidates to the Archbishop The Archbishop thanks the Vice Dean for her presentation, and welcomes the candidates The Archbishop then collates The Reverend Andrew Patrick Dodd as Canon Residentiary The Reverend Nigel Mark Genders as Honorary Provincial Canon The Reverend Andrew William Sewell as Archdeacon of Maidstone and licenses The Venerable Stephen Ronald Taylor MBE as Archdeacon & Senior Chaplain to the Bishop of Dover The Archbishop takes his pastoral staff and blesses them, saying God give you the spirit of holy discipline, of faithfulness, and of love for all his people; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be upon you and remain with you always. Amen. The Archbishop says to the Dean Mr Dean, I request that you proceed with the installations in accordance with the contents of these mandates and following the custom of this Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. The Dean escorts those to be installed to the Quire Psalm 133 Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is : brethren, to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard : even unto Aaron’s beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing. Like as the dew of Hermon : which fell upon the hill of Sion. For there the Lord promised his blessing : and life for evermore. 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. The Installations The congregation remain seated while members of the Cathedral Foundation stand Those to be installed take their places in Quire and the Dean says In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Andrew, by virtue of this mandate, I induct and admit you to the office and ministry of a Canon Residentiary of this Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. Nigel, by virtue of this mandate, I induct and admit you to the office and ministry of an Honorary Provincial Canon of this Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. Andrew, by virtue of this mandate, I induct and admit you to the office and ministry of Archdeacon of Maidstone within the Foundation of this Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. The Lord preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore. The Dean says We welcome you as members of the Cathedral Foundation and pray that we may assist your growth in Christ as you enrich our fellowship together. The members of the Foundation respond We welcome you. The Dean leads members of the Foundation in saying the Foundation Prayer Eternal God, you have brought us together into a noble company. We pray for one another and for the holy Church of Canterbury; that in this house of our most blessed Saviour, dignity of worship, preaching the faith and holiness of life may for ever abound and thence be spread through all the world, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Dean and the newly installed return to their seats in the Nave All stand as the choir sing Magnificat My soul doth magnify the Lord : and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded : the lowliness of his handmaiden. For behold, from henceforth : all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath magnified me : and holy is his Name. And his mercy is on them that fear him : throughout all generations. He hath shewed strength with his arm : he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things : and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel : as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever.
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