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Souls' Requiem OUR VISION: A world where people experience God’s love and are made whole. OUR MISSION: To share the love of Jesus through compassion, inclusivity, creativity and learning. Calla Lily Valley in Big Sur, California. All Souls’ Requiem 12 November 2017 11 a.m. Choral Eucharist Welcome to Grace Cathedral Welcome to this sacred house of prayer for all people. Those who built this place and care for it love tradition and feel passionate about engaging with what is new. If you look closely you will find images of scientists, reformers, Jewish rabbis and Roman Catholic popes, political leaders, saints and even an astronaut. We invite you to be part of this joyful community even if your visit is short. You might ask yourself two questions: “What do I need to receive? What do I have to give?” We would be delighted to hear about your explorations. May God bless you on your journey! – The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral • If you are new to Grace Cathedral, please introduce yourself and fill out a welcome card so we can be in touch with you. We’re glad you’re here! • Join us for coffee and conversation across the plaza in the Chapter House Library after the 8:30 a.m. service or in the Dining Room after the 11 a.m. service. • Find out about our programs for children, youth and families at coffee hour. about today’s readings Wisdom 3:1-9; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; John 5:24-27 Reading texts can be found at the end of the service leaflet. At a recent memorial for North Bay fire victims, Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the audience: “Hope is where it has always been, sitting right between faith and love. Love in the air is thicker than smoke.” Today’s readings are about hope, specifically the Christian hope that death begins an endlessly new life, at once peaceful and grand. The Wisdom reading asks us to imagine death not as punishment but as a procession into God’s grace and mercy, where we are transformed into celestial bodies that “shine forth and run like sparks through the stubble.” “Listen, I will tell you a mystery!” Paul exclaims in 1 Corinthians. “We will not all die, but we will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of the eye.” This to a mixed audience, poor and rich, women and men, insiders and outsiders, ex-pagans and mystery cultists. A life lived in this knowledge, says Paul, is “steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord.” In John’s gospel Jesus says that all who hear and believe have eternal life. We will be judged with favor if we order our lives in the knowledge that everyone, not the least ourselves, is noticed and accounted for. This is God’s love, the promise of faith, hope in the air. This reflection was written by Jim Simpson. He is a member of the Grace Cathedral Congregation Council and a graduate of the cathedral’s Education for Ministry program. highlights The Forum with Peter Coyote Choral Requiem for All Souls Today, November 12 • 9:30 a.m. • Gresham Hall Today, November 12 • 11 a.m. Eucharist • Cathedral The distinguished actor, voice of Ken Burns We remember those who have died with documentaries, author, activist and Zen a special service. The Choir of Men and Buddhist priest joins our dean Malcolm Clemens Boys will sing a breathtaking Mozart’s Young and former dean Alan Jones for a conversation about Requiem — the famous composition featured in the mentors, the spiritual quest and the power of art. Oscar-winning film Amadeus — with full orchestra. Former dean Jane Shaw will preach. 39th Annual Service of Remembrance Palestine: Unlimited Photography Today, November 12 • 3 p.m. • Cathedral Exhibit - Final Week This annual ceremony, hosted by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the British Benevolent Society, Sunday, October 1 to Sunday, October 29 • Lower level commemorates all who have lost their lives in armed conflict. The service includes the deeply moving cascade This gripping exhibit captures the lives of thousands of poppy petals onto the altar. The Very Rev. Dr. Alan Jones, OBE and Dean Emeritus of Grace of Palestinians from the lenses of young Cathedral, will officiate. This service will replace the usual Sunday Evensong today. Palestinian photographers. Experience the exhibit before it closes next Sunday. The Readings Wisdom 3: 1–9 of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For he souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on toT have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster, and imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. For saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed though in the sight of others they were punished, their hope is full of up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is immortality. Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always offering he accepted them. In the time of their visitation they will excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. They will your labor is not in vain. govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them forever. Those who trust in him will understand truth, and John 5: 24–27 the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are esus said, “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and upon his holy ones, and he watches over his elect. believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under 1 Corinthians 15: 50–58 judgment,J but has passed from death to life. Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of hat I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in inheritW the imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling he is the Son of Man. About the Music n 9 October 1790 Leopold II was crowned Holy Roman Requiem Mass was at St. Michael’s Church Vienna on 10 December. OEmperor of the German Nation. It was a time of great The first two movements were sung. change. The kingdom of Hungary was laying the foundations for Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most studied and debated pieces revolution. The Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) had just declared in the Western canon. Scholars cannot agree on who composed independence (short-lived) and Austria was stuck in a seemingly or orchestrated what. There are some facts, however, that are endless war with the Ottoman Empire. Due to the political climate undisputed. Constanze was eager to see the piece finished in order and the period of mourning following the death of Joseph II, to obtain the other half of the commission. She asked a couple of concert halls of Vienna either closed or their concert subscriptions colleagues to finish the work, but it was Sussmayer who reluctantly cancelled. It was in this world that the 34 year old Mozart found took on the task. He completed the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus himself struggling to raise a young family. Once the wunderkind of Dei, based upon Mozart’s sketches. It is believed that Mozart all Europe, the young composer was now struggling to make ends spelled out most of his intentions to Sussmayer before he died. In meet. It is no surprise that Mozart found himself gladly taking any 1994, Robert Levin did another completion that may more fully offer to compose for money. He composed, in this last year of his realize the composer’s intentions. For example, where Sussmayer life, scores of minuets and dances for Viennese dance halls, his last concludes the Sequence with a simple two bar Amen, Levin, in operatic work, The Magic Flute, and the Requiem. accordance with 18th century Viennese church music practice, TheRequiem is well known for the mysterious origins of its creation concludes with an 88 bar fugue. as well as questions of its authorship. In July of 1791 Mozart was It is the ultimate Romance: a young composer whose genius visited by a stranger who commissioned a mass for the dead and was seen neither before nor since, a mysterious commission, an paid him half in advance.
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