THE FEAST OF BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it. I want an intelligent, well-instructed laity – I wish [them] to enlarge [their] knowledge, to cultivate [their] reason, to get an insight into the relation of truth to truth, to learn to view things as they are, to understand how faith and reason stand to each other, what are the bases and principles of Catholicism. Blessed John Henry Newman Office of Evensong and Benediction 9 October 2011 Five O’clock P.M. THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY CROSS Boston, Ma. 2 ORDER OF SERVICE THE PSALMS APPOINTED PRELUDE Psalm 111 O PENING SENTENCE OF SCRIPTURE THE PRECES AND RESPONSES (SUNG BY THE SCHOLA) Please Stand O God, make speed Ñ 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. THE O FFICE H YMN Firmly I believe and Truly Halton Holgate 3 4 Psalm 113 Psalm 112 5 6 FIRST LESSON Micah 6:1-8 THE SUFFERAGES O Lord, show thy mercy upon us; CANTICLE Magnificat Luke 1:46–55 Healey Willan And grant us thy salvation. My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For he hath Endue thy ministers with righteousness; regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden. For behold from henceforth all generations shall And make thy chosen people joyful. 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 showed strength with his Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the For only in thee can we live in safety. 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 Lord, keep this nation under thy care; his servant Israel, as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever. Glory be And guide us in the way of justice and truth. to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and Let thy way be known upon earth; ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Thy saving health among all nations. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; SECOND LESSON Nor the hope of the poor be taken away. Create in us clean hearts, O God; CANTICLE Nunc Dimittis Luke2: 29-32 Orlando Gibbons And sustain us with thy Holy Spirit. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word; For mine eyes have THE PRAYERS seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people, to be a light to Collect of the Day lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father, and to the O God, who bestowed on the Priest Blessed John Henry Newman the grace to follow thy Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world kindly light and find peace in thy Church; graciously grant that, through his intercession without end. Amen. and example, we may be led out of shadows and images into the fulness of thy truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity THE APOSTLES CREED (Chanted in monotone) of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ Collect for Peace his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we, being defended from the sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty. From thence he shall come to fear of all enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. A-men. 7 8 us; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life Collect for Aid against Perils everlasting. 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 Savior Jesus SERMON Christ. Amen. HYMN Lead Kindly Light Sandon Collect for Sundays Lord God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ triumphed over the powers of death and prepared for us our place in the new Jerusalem: Grant that we, who have this day given thanks for his resurrection, may praise thee in that City of which he is the light; and where he liveth and reigneth for ever and ever. Amen. Collect for the Presence of Christ Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love. Amen. THE G ENERAL THANKSGIVING (Immediately following the Prayers) Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable 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 beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen. Prayer of St. John Chrysostom Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication unto thee, and hast promised through thy well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name thou wilt be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be best for 9 10 BENEDICTION OF THE ADORATION AND BENEDICTION MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT During the second line of “Tantum Ergo , all should humbly bow. ALL KNEEL Tantum Ergo Grafton The monstrance is placed on the Altar. After the Blessed Sacrament is placed in the Monstrance, “O Salutaris” is sung. O saving Victim Hereford Thou gavest them bread from heaven. Containing in itself all sweetness. Let us pray. O God, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion: grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of Thy Body and Blood, Words: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274); tr. Edward Caswall (1814-1878) that we may ever perceieve within ourselves the fruits of Thy redemption. Who livest Music: Hereford, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) and reignest world without end. Amen. 11 12 THE BLESSING H YMN Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Was Lebet Blessed, praised and adored be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament. THE D IVINE PRAISES Please respond in bold after the Celebrant Blessed be God. Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart. Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the paraclete. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the paraclete. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her glorious Assumption.