Chelmsford Cathedral

Choral

Sunday 9th May at 3.30 pm

FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER

President: The Rev’d Kate Moore Preacher: Canon Ivor Moody You are warmly welcomed to Evensong at Chelmsford Cathedral. Today is the Fifth Sunday after Easter.

Everything you need for this celebration is in this booklet. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off.

Hearing Aids: There is a loop system installed throughout the church. If you are a hearing aid user, please turn it to T.

Music: The music today will be sung by the Cathedral Choir, directed by James Davy, Organist and Master of the Choristers. The organist is Hilary Punnett, Assistant Organist and Director of the Girls’ Choir. Please feel free to join in at home with the singing of the hymns.

You are warmly invited to make a financial contribution to the life of the cathedral by making a donation using the contactless giving plates near the doors. Your gift will be used to enable us to deliver our ministry in its varied forms, from hosting community events, cultural activities, maintaining free entry to this glorious building, supporting our musical and worship tradition and much more. If you would like to find out more about our planned giving scheme, please ask one of the stewards. To donate online, please visit the cathedral website, scroll towards the bottom of the page and under the heading “supporting your cathedral” click the link. Thank you.

If the alarm sounds, please exit the Cathedral via the nearest available door and if it is safe to do so, assemble at the rear of the Shire Hall in the South Eastern corner of the churchyard. Please do not go back for your belongings until you are told it is safe to do so.

If you would like to know more about the Christian faith and the life of the Christian community in this place please speak to Canon Imogen Nay, ring 01245 294486 or visit us at chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk.

Music copyright: permission to copy words and music covered by One License A-633635.

2 Music before the Service Prelude in D (1766 – 1837)

Please stand

Responses The Precentor and choir sing the opening responses.

O Lord, open thou our lips, Choir and our mouth shall shew forth thy praise. O God, make speed to save us. Choir O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Choir as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Praise ye the Lord. Choir The Lord’s name be praised. Music: Bernard Rose (1916 – 1996)

Hymn (NEH 366)

The congregation is welcomed. Please sit as the choir sing the hymn.

God of mercy, God of grace, show the brightness of thy face: shine upon us, Saviour, shine, fill thy Church with light divine; and thy saving health extend unto earth’s remotest end.

Let the people praise thee, Lord; be by all that live adored: let the nations shout and sing, glory to their Saviour King; at thy feet their tributes pay, and thy holy will obey.

Let the people praise thee, Lord; earth shall then her fruits afford; God to us his blessing give, we to God devoted live; all below, and all above, Words: H F Lyte (1793 - 1847) one in joy, and light, and love. Tune: Heathlands 3 Psalmody The choir sings Psalm 67

God be merciful unto us, and bless us : and shew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us: That thy way may be known upon earth : thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God : yea, let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, O God : let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing. God shall bless us : and all the ends of the world shall fear him.

Please 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. Please sit

The First Reading Acts 16 v 9 - 15

During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.’ And she prevailed upon us. 4 Magnificat Please stand as the choir sings

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.

Luke 1.46-55 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.

Music: Evening Service in C, Bryan Kelly (b.1934)

Please sit

The Second Reading Revelation 21 v 10, 22 - 22 v 5

And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.

I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day - and there will be no night there. People will bring into it the glory and the honour of the nations. But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practises abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. 5 On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him; they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.

Nunc dimittis Please stand as the choir sings

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace : according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation : which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles : and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Luke 2.29-32 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.

Music: Evening Service in C, Bryan Kelly

The Apostles' Creed

All I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. 6 Prayers The Precentor and the choir sing

The Lord be with you, Choir and with thy spirit.

Let us pray. Please sit or kneel Choir Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Choir Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen. O Lord, shew thy mercy upon us. Choir And grant us thy salvation. O Lord, save the Queen. Choir And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee. Endue thy ministers with righteousness. Choir And make thy chosen people joyful. O Lord, save thy people. Choir And bless thine inheritance. Give peace in our time, O Lord. Choir Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God. O God, make clean our hearts within us. Choir And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. The Collects The Precentor sings

O Lord, from whom all good things do come; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Choir Amen. 7 O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both, our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that, by thee, we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Choir Amen.

Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Choir Amen. Music: Bernard Rose

The Please be seated as the choir sings

Blessèd be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. But as he which has called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. Love one another with a pure heart fervently, See that ye love one another. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever more. Amen.

Words: from the Psalms & 1 Peter Music: (1810 - 1876)

Please sit or kneel

The Prayers of Intercession Canon Imogen Nay

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Canon Ivor Moody

Hymn (NEH 124) Ye choirs of new Jerusalem, your sweetest notes employ, the Paschal victory to hymn in strains of holy joy.

How Judah’s Lion burst his chains, and crushed the serpent’s head; and brought with him, from death’s domains, the long-imprisoned dead.

From hell’s devouring jaws the prey alone our Leader bore; his ransomed hosts pursue their way where he hath gone before.

Triumphant in his glory now his sceptre ruleth all, earth, heaven, and hell before him bow, and at his footstool fall.

While joyful thus his praise we sing, his mercy we implore, into his palace bright to bring and keep us evermore.

All glory to the Father be, all glory to the Son, all glory, Holy Ghost, to thee, while endless ages run. Alleluia! Amen.

Words: Fulbert of Chartres (d 1028) tr. Robert Campbell (1814-1868) Tune: St Fulbert

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The Blessing The congregation is blessed

The peace of God which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ, and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. All Amen. Conclusion The closing responses are sung

The Lord be with you, Choir and with thy spirit. Let us bless the Lord. Choir Thanks be to God. Music: Bernard Rose (1916 – 1996)

Organ Voluntary

Fantasy on ‘Easter Hymn’ William Harris (1883 – 1973)

Music Notes

The music before the service is by English Samuel Wesley, who was a contemporary of Mozart, and was known as the ‘English Mozart’. Samuel Wesley came from an influential family: Samuel’s father, , is well-known for his hymnody; his uncle was the founder of the Methodist Church; and his mother was a gifted harpsichordist who taught Samuel music. Samuel’s son, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composed today’s anthem, heard later in the service.

The music after the service is by English composer William Harris, and is based on the popular Easter hymn, ‘Jesus Christ is risen today’, which can be heard clearly throughout this joyful and approachable fantasia.

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Safeguarding at Chelmsford Cathedral Do you have a concern about a child or a vulnerable adult?

You must report that concern directly to our Cathedral Safeguarding Lead

Ms Lisa Blaco Telephone: 07902 225131 Email: [email protected]

If she is unavailable, you must report your concern to our Assistant Safeguarding Lead

Revd Kate Moore Telephone: 07860 459465 Email: [email protected]

If you have information about a safeguarding situation where a child or adult is in immediate danger call the emergency services on 999

To contact your local police to report a non-emergency concern call 101

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CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL WORSHIP

Join us during the week for prayer online, or in person, at the following times every day:

Weekdays 7.45am: Morning Prayer 10.30am: Eucharist on Thursdays only* 5.15pm: Evensong on Mondays*, Tuesdays*, Thursdays & Fridays

Sundays 7.45am: Morning Prayer 8.45am: Breakfast with the Bible (available via zoom, contact Canon Imogen Nay for the link) 10.30am: Eucharist 11.30am: Zoom Coffee (available via zoom, meeting ID: 894 9109 5348, passcode: 631194, contact Yvonne Spence for details) 3.30pm: Evensong

For details of how to listen live or later, visit our website chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk and find our Regular Worship page.

*available to join in person only

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