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Evening Prayer: Rite Two Wednesday, , 2020

Opening Sentence (BCP 115) Officiant: Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth tremble before him. Psalm 96:6

Confession of Sin (BCP 116) Officiant: Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence may be kept. All: Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. Priest: Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. All: Amen.

The Invitatory and Psalter (BCP 117) Officiant: O God, make speed to save us. People: O Lord, make haste to help us. All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. O Gracious Light Phos hilaron (BCP 118) All: O gracious Light, pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven, O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed! Now as we come to the setting of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing your praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices, O Son of God, O Giver of life, and to be glorified through all the worlds.

The Psalm Appointed (Psalm 118:19-29, BCP 762) 19 Open for me the gates of righteousness, I will enter them; I will offer thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the gate of the LORD; he who is righteous may enter. 21 I will give thanks to you, for you answered me and have become my salvation. 22 The same stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 23 This is the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Hosanna, Lord, hosanna! LORD, send us now success. 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD; we bless you from the house of the LORD. 27 God is the Lord; he has shined upon us; form a procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will thank you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. 29 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his mercy endures for ever. All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

The Lessons The First Lesson Reader: A reading from 2 Chronicles (6:12-20)

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands. Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court; and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven. He said, ‘O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant in steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—you who have kept for your servant, my father David, what you promised to him. Indeed, you promised with your mouth and this day have fulfilled with your hand. Therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant, my father David, that which you promised him, saying, “There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.” Therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you promised to your servant David. ‘But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built! Have regard to your servant’s prayer and his plea, O LORD my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you. May your eyes be open day and night towards this house, the place where you promised to set your name, and may you heed the prayer that your servant prays towards this place. Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

The Song of Simeon Nunc dimittis (BCP 120) All: Lord, you now have set your servant free to go in peace as you have promised; For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior, whom you have prepared for all the world to see: A Light to enlighten the nations, and the glory of your people Israel. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

The Gospel Reader: A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew (7:24-29) ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!’ Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Homily ...... The Rev. Dr. Mark W. Frazier

The Apostles’ Creed (BCP 120) All: I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth; I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Prayers (BCP 121) Officiant: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Officiant: Let us pray. All: 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. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Suffrages B (BCP 122) Officiant: That this evening may be holy, good, and peaceful, All: We entreat you, O Lord. Officiant: That your holy angels may lead us in paths of peace and goodwill, All: We entreat you, O Lord. Officiant: That we may be pardoned and forgiven for our sins and offenses, All: We entreat you, O Lord. Officiant: That there may be peace to your Church and to the whole world, All: We entreat you, O Lord. Officiant: That we may depart this life in your faith and fear, and not be condemned before the great judgment seat of Christ, All: We entreat you, O Lord. Officiant: That we may be bound together by your Holy Spirit in the communion of all your saints, entrusting one another and all our life to Christ, All: We entreat you, O Lord.

The Collects The Collect for , , and John LaFarge Officiant: Gracious God, we thank you for the vision of Ralph Adams Cram, John LaFarge and Richard Upjohn, whose harmonious revival of the Gothic enriched our churches with a sacramental understanding of reality in the face of secular materialism; and we pray that we may honor your gifts of the beauty of holiness given through them, for the glory of Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. All: Amen.

The Collect for Aid against Perils (BCP 123) Officiant: Be our light in the darkness, O Lord, and in your great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of your only Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. All: Amen.

A Prayer for Mission (BCP 124) Officiant: Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. All: Amen.

Announcements

The General Thanksgiving (BCP 125) All: Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom (BCP 126) Officiant: Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. All: Amen.

The Dismissal Officiant: Let us bless the Lord. All: Thanks be to God.

Officiant: Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Ephesians 3:20, 21 All: Amen.

Hagiography Ralph Adams Cram, Architect satucket.com/wikipedia.com Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 - September 22, 1942), was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic style. During an 1887 Christmas Eve mass in , he had a dramatic conversion experience. For the rest of his life, he remained a fervent Anglo-Catholic. A leading proponent of disciplined Gothic Revival architecture in general and in particular, Cram is most closely associated with Princeton, where he was awarded a Doctor of Letters and served as Supervising Architect from 1907 to 1929. Through the 1920s Cram was a public figure and frequently mentioned in the press. The Times called him "one of the most prominent Episcopalian laymen in the country". Cram's buildings include: • All Saints' Church, Ashmont, , 1892 • Church of St. John Evangelist, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1892 • Emmanuel Church, Newport, Rhode Island, 1900 • Calvary Episcopal Church, , Pennsylvania, 1904 • Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York, with Henry Vaughan, 1904 • All Saints' Chapel, Sewanee, begun 1904, finished 1959 • Saint Thomas Church, , 1905-1913 • Cathedral Church of St. Paul, , Michigan, 1908 • All Saints Cathedral, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1910 • Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, begun 1912, unfinished • multiple buildings at , Princeton, New Jersey, 1913-1927 • Cole Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 1917 • Trinity Episcopal Church, , Texas, 1919 • St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Hastings, Nebraska, 1921-1929 • St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC Winston-Salem, 1928

Richard Upjohn, Architect satucket.com/wikipedia.com Richard Upjohn (22 January 1802 - 16 August 1878) was an English-born architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches. His family initially settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts and then moved on to in 1833, where he worked in architectural design. He had relocated to New York by 1839 where he worked on alterations to Trinity Church. The alterations were later abandoned and he was commissioned to design a new church, completed in 1846. He published his extremely influential book, Upjohn's rural architecture: Designs, working drawings and specifications for a wooden church, and other rural structures, in 1852. Notable projects included: • Trinity Church in New York City (1839-46) • The Church of the Ascension in New York City (1840-41) • Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island (1845; later remodeled by Ralph Adams Cram, above) • St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey (1846-54) • Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina (1846-48) • Grace Church in Newark, New Jersey (1847-48) • St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, New York (1849-51) • Zion Episcopal Church in Rome, New York (1850-1851) • St. John Chrysostom Church in Delafield, Wisconsin (1851-56) • St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in , Maryland (1854) • All Saint's Episcopal Church in Frederick, Maryland (1855) • St. Mark's Episcopal Church (San Antonio, Texas) (1858) • St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Albany, New York (1859) • Church of the Holy Comforter in Poughkeepsie, New York (1860) • St. Philip's Church in the Highlands in Garrison, New York (1860-61) • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1860-62) • Memorial Church of St. Luke The Beloved Physician, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1861) • Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Church (New Rochelle, New York) (1862) • All Saint's Memorial Church in Navesink, New Jersey (1863-64) • St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama (1871-75)

John LaFarge, Artist satucket.com/wikipedia.com (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American painter, muralist, window maker, decorator, and writer. His labors in almost every type of art won for him from the French Government the Cross of the Legion of Honor and membership in the principal artistic societies of America, as well as the presidency of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1899 through 1904. Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personality and reflective conversation he influenced many other people. Though naturally a questioner he venerated the traditions of religious art, and preserved always his Catholic faith and reverence. La Farge experimented with color problems, especially in the medium of stained glass. He succeeded not only in rivaling the gorgeousness of medieval windows, but in adding new resources by his invention of opalescent glass and his original methods of superimposing and welding his material. Among his many stained glass masterpieces are: • two of his largest windows, the 1887 "Angel of Help" and the 1901 "Figure of Wisdom", in Unity Church in North Easton, Massachusetts. • Sealing of the Twelve Tribes, Trinity Episcopal Church, Buffalo, New York, 1889 • two windows at the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, Massachusetts • 14 windows at the Judson Memorial Church, , New York City • four windows at the Trinity Church, Boston • windows at the St. Paul's Chapel, , NYC • rose window at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia