Sunday, October 18, 2020 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Prelude Elegy Alan Gray Opening Words and Prayer Roger Gench Hymn For the Beauty of the Earth Dix Call to Confession and Prayer Patient God, you know us through and through. When we hide behind our masks, you know the truth about what we carry in our hearts and how our minds are spinning. You call us to care for each other, to tend to your creation, and to follow your will instead of our own. Forgive us for losing sight of your promises and for our selfish ways. Forgive us for putting our own desires first. Grant us courage and clarity in how we respond to your gracious love. Guide us to love and live like Jesus, so that we may see your glory. (a period of silence for confession and personal prayer) Response Don’t Be Afraid John Bell Words of Assurance The love of God and the grace of Christ meet us where we are. We do not earn our way into God’s heart. Through Christ and the Spirit, God covers us with mercy and forgiveness. So we ask for another chance, with the confidence of that God responds with steadfast grace. May your heart be at peace, trusting that you are God’s beloved. Sharing Faith with the Church Family Kate Fiedler Anthem At the Name of Jesus Ralph Vaughan Williams At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess him King of glory now; ‘tis the Father’s pleasure we should call him Lord, who from the beginning was the mighty Word. Humbled for a season, to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it spotless to the last, brought it back victorious when from death he passed. Name him, Christians, name him, with love as strong as death, but with awe and wonder, and with bated breath; he is God the Savior, he is Christ the Lord, ever to be worshipped, trusted, and adored. In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue all that is not holy, all that is not true: crown him as your captain in temptation’s hour; let his will enfold you in its light and power. Christians, this Lord Jesus shall return again, with his Father’s glory, with his angel train; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of glory now.` Caroline Noel Prayers of Intercession, Compassion, and Care & the Lord’s Prayer (debts) Kelley Connelly Scripture Revelation 7:9-17 Sermon A Good Day Kate Fiedler Hymn (prerecorded) Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee Hymn to Joy Closing Words and Benediction Postlude Allegro Charles Villiers Stanford The flowers are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of P. Clayton & Marguerite Walker Holladay, Philip Clayton Holladay, Jr., and Frances Walker Holladay Music Notes Prelude English organist and composer Alan Gray (1855-1935) was a student of Charles Villiers Stanford and succeeded him at Trinity College, Cambridge. Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of his students there. At the close he quotes the chant theme for Ave verum corpus (Hail, True Body). Hymn Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917) was an English poet who published three volumes of his works. This is his only text in modern hymnals. The tune was composed by Conrad Kocher (1786-1872), a German organist and church musician. The original tune was adapted into this form by William Henry Monk (1823-1889), an English composer, organist, and editor. He also composed the tune Eventide, used for the hymn Abide with Me. Response John Bell (b. 1049) has been involved with the Iona Community in Scotland for many years, composing many songs for use in worship there. Anthem English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed this tune as a setting of this text for the 1925 hymnal Songs of Faith. He arranged this anthem and noted “arranged with varied settings foa a festival service by the composer.” Over a sixty-year period he wrote operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions. English poet Caroline Noel (1817-1877) published this text in The Name of Jesus and Other Poems in 1870. Hymn Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), who wrote this text for this tune in 1907, was a professor at Princeton, a lecturer at the University of Paris, and Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg for Woodrow Wilson. The tune was adapted from the Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) by Edward Hodge (1796-1867). Born in England, he emigrated to the United States. He served as organist at Trinity Church, Wall Street for 20 years. Postlude Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), was an Irish organist, composer, and teacher. Among his students at Cambridge University were Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He based this work on a tune by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), who served as organist for the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey. .