Young Ones WELCOME Participants to Clergy Welcome to St. Paul's! We The Rev'd Curtis A. Farr, Host are pleased to offer this concert of song and spoken Music word for the community we John R. Abdenour, Director of Music love. While this is not a service Edward Tipton, Organist of worship, per se, please Rich Clymer, Ken Tedeschi, Trumpets, Robert Hoyle, Horn stand and sing with us when Scott Cranston, Bill Whitaker, Trombones, Lee Caron, Timpani invited in the bulletin. We hope that you will join us The St. Paul?s Choir following the concert for a Cantoris Choir reception in the Parish Hall. If Treble ? Matthew B., William B., Madison C., there is anything we can do to Claire ., Conor G., Ryan G., Julia H.*, make you feel more welcome, Evan M., Josephine M., Miranda S. please let an usher know. Alto ? Cantoris: Robin Clark-Smith, Sarah Bleasdale (Section Leader), If you know a child who Laura Mozier, Eva Uhrich loves to sing, consider telling Tenor ? Cantoris: Christopher McCormack (Section Leader) them about St. Paul's. Those Bass ? Cantoris: Eric Andren, Benjamin P., who join the choir get a Gregory Sullivan (Section Leader) top-notch musical education along with membership in a spiritually-grounded, loving Decani Choir community of music lovers. Treble ? Michael A., Olivia B., Madison C., Connect with St. Paul's by Madeline C., De'ana D., Ashton D., filling out a Natalie F.., Caitlyn G., Maya K., Welcome Emmeline S. Card and Alto ? Tracey Cranston, Sarah McCormack leaving it Tenor ? Benjamin McCormack (Section Leader), Jonathan Taylor with the freewill Bass ? Dylan C. (Section Leader), Philip Sidebottom, Noah S. offering. *Head Chorister of the Choir We will be in touch Ushers and may Lucy Buggy, Trish Garton connect you to Reception ways you can participate in Music Ministry Team various ministries or to answer Suzanne Haas, Chair any questions that you may have. We thank Mr. Tipton for joining us today to play the organ. He currently Welcome to St. Paul's! serves as Director of Music of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in New Canaan, Connecticut, having previously served for over twenty years as distinguished Canon-Precentor of the American Cathedral in Paris and of St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles. The Rev'd Curtis Farr, Rector Music for Organ Méditation Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Music for Brass Ensemble Canzona per Sonare No. 4 Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) * * * Words of Welcome The Rev'd Curtis Farr Hymn in Procession All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired) The Audience may be seated. In the presence of the angels Music by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris Thee, O Christ, the Father's splendor vita, virtus cordium Life and virtue of the heart, in conspectu Angelorum. In the presence of the angels Votis, vocis psalimus Sing we now with tuneful art, alternantes concrepando Meetly in alternate chorus, melos damus vocibus. Bearing our responsive part. Collaudamus venerantes Thus we praise with veneration omnes coeli milites All the armies of the sky; sed praecipue primatem. Chiefly him, the guardian primate, Coelestis exercitus Of celestial chivalry, Michaelem in virtute Michael, who in princely virtue conterentem Zabulum. Cast Abbaddon from on high. Quo custode procul pelle By whose watchful care repelling - rex Christe piissime King of everlasting grace _ omne nefas inimici. Every ghostly adversary, Mundos corde et corpore All things evil, all things base, paradiso redde tuo Grant of us thine only goodness, nos sola clementia. In thy Paradise a place. Gloriam Patri melodis Sing we glory to the Father, personemus vocibus; And with sweetest voices sing Gloriam Christo canamus, Glory to the'eternal Savior; Gloriam Paraclito, To the Spirit, let praises ring: Qui trinus et unus Deus Thee, our single, triune Godhead, Extat ante saecula. Amen. Source from which all worlds shall spring. Amen. Rabanus Marus (776-856); tr. J. M. Neale and others A Reading: Jacob and the Angel Genesis 32:22-33 The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob?s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ?Let me go, for the day is breaking.? But Jacob said, ?I will not let you go, unless you bless me.? So he said to him, ?What is your name?? And he said, ?Jacob.? Then the man said, ?You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.? Then Jacob asked him, ?Please tell me your name.? But he said, ?Why is it that you ask my name?? And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, ?For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.? The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle. As they shout exultingly the hymn . Music by Edward Bairstow (1892-1983) Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and stand with fear and trembling. And lift itself above all earthly thought. For the King of kings and Lord of lords, Christ our God cometh forth to be our oblation and to be given for food to the faithful. Before him come the choirs of angels, with every Principality and Power. The Cherubim with many eyes and wingéd Seraphim, who veil their faces as they shout exultingly the hymn: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Liturgy of St. James (4th cent.) Hymn All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired) The Audience may be seated. A Reading: Gabriel and Mary Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin?s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ?Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.? But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, ?Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.? Mary said to the angel, ?How can this be, since I am a virgin?? The angel said to her, ?The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.? Then Mary said, ?Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.? Then the angel departed from her. Blessed are you Music (Op. 2 No. 2) by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, benedicta tu in mulieribus, blessed are you among women, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. and blessed if the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. now and in the hour of our death. Amen. A Reading: Michael and the Dragon Revelation 12:1-10 A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birthpangs, in the agony of giving birth. Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne; and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days. And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back, but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world? he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.