CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL DUBLIN CHORAL SERVICES WEDNESDAY 17 TH DECEMBER 2014 CHORAL EVENSONG SUNG BY THE CATHEDRAL GIRLS ’ CHOIR 18.00 PRECES Plainsong Please sit for Psalm 100 sung by the choir O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands: serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves, we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth from generation to generation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Spirit; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. THE FIRST LESSON Malachi 3: 16 – 4:6 MAGNIFICAT EDWARD BAIRSTOW (1874–1946), EVENING SERVICE IN E FLAT THE SECOND LESSON Mark 9: 9-13 NUNC DIMITTIS EDWARD BAIRSTOW , EVENING SERVICE IN E FLAT RESPONSES Plainsong THE COLLECT , OF THE DAY O Lord Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE COLLECT OF ADVENT Almighty God, Give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen. ANTHEM Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Then was I born of a virgin pure, I would my true love did so chance Of her I took fleshly substance, To see the legend of my play, Thus was I knit to man’s nature, To call my true love to my dance. To call my true love to my dance. Sing, O, my love, my love, my love Sing, O, my love, my love, my love This have I done for my true love. This have I done for my true love. In a manger laid and wrapp’d I was, So very poor, this was my chance, Betwixt an ox and a silly poor ass, To call my true love to my dance. Sing, O, my love, my love, my love This have I done for my true love. Traditional English arr. Andrew Carter (b. 1939) Anon. THE PRAYERS THURSDAY 18 TH DECEMBER 2014 CHORAL EVENSONG SUNG BY THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR 18.00 PRECES Bernard Rose (1916–1996) PLEASE SIT FOR PSALM 89: 1–4, 19–26 SUNG BY THE CHOIR My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another. For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn unto David my servant; Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from one gener ation to another. For the Lord is our defence: the holy one of Israel is our King. Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him. My hand shall hold him fast and my arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. I will smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him. My truth also and my mercy shall be with him: and in my Name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his dominion also in the sea: and his right hand in the floods. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Spirit; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. THE FIRST LESSON 2 Samuel 6: 1-11 MAGNIFICAT CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852-1924), EVENING SERVICE IN G THE SECOND LESSON Hebrews 1: 1-4 NUNC DIMITTIS CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD , EVENING SERVICE IN G RESPONSES BERNARD ROSE THE COLLECT , OF THE DAY O Lord Jesu Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE COLLECT OF ADVENT Almighty God, Give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen. ANTHEM A tender shoot has started up from a root of grace, as ancient seers imparted from Jesse's holy race. It blooms without a blight, blooms in the cold bleak winter turning our darkness into light. This shoot, Isaiah taught us, from Jesse's root should spring. The Virgin Mary brought us the branch of which we sing: Our God of endless might gave her this child to save us, thus turning darkness into light. Otto Goldschmidt (1829—1907) William Bartholomew THE PRAYERS SUNDAY 21 ST DECEMBER 2014 CHORAL EVENSONG SUNG BY THE PAST CHORISTER 15.30 PRECES Plainsong OFFICE HYMN Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long! Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song. He comes the prisoners to release In Satan's bondage held; The gates of brass before him burst, The iron fetters yield. He comes the broken heart to bind, The bleeding soul to cure, And with the treasures of his grace Enrich the humble poor. Our glad hosannas, Prince of peace, Thy welcome shall proclaim, And heaven’s eternal arches ring With thy belovèd name. Tune: Bristol Thomas Ravenscroft’s Psalmes , 1621 Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) PLEASE SIT FOR PSALM 113 SUNG BY THE CHOIR Praise the Lord ye servants: O praise the Name of the Lord. Blessed be the Name of the Lord: from this time forth for ever more. The Lord’s Name is praised: from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same. The Lord is high above all nations: and his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high: and yet humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth? He taketh up the simple out of the dust: and lifteth the poor out of the mire; That he may set him with the princes: even with the princes of his people. He maketh the barren woman to keep house: and to be a joyful mother of children. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Spirit; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. THE FIRST LESSON Zechariah 2: 10-13 MAGNIFICAT CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852-1924), EVENING SERVICE IN C THE SECOND LESSON LUKE 1: 39-55 NUNC DIMITTIS CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD , EVENING SERVICE IN C RESPONSES PLAINSONG THE COLLECT , OF THE DAY Lord, we beseech thee, give ear to our prayers, and by thy gracious visitation lighten the darkness of our hearts by our Lord Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. THE COLLECT OF ADVENT Almighty God, Give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen. ANTHEM In the bleak mid-winter Enough for him, whom cherubim Frosty wind made moan; Worship night and day, Earth stood hard as iron, A breastful of milk Water like a stone; And a mangerful of hay; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Enough for him whom angels Snow on snow, Fall down before, In the bleak mid-winter The ox and ass and camel Long ago.