Choral Evensong: Elisabeth Cruciger
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 6:00 PM
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Elisabeth Cruciger
May 3, 2023
Choir: Trinity Chamber Singers
Officiant: The Rev. Peter Faass
Hymns: The Only Son from Heaven, Give Thanks for Music-making Art
Psalm 26
Responses: James Buonemani (b. 1956)
Service: Herbert Howells, Collegium Regale (1892-1983)
Anthem: Blest Pair of Sirens – Charles Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
Officiant: The Rev. Peter Faass
Hymns: The Only Son from Heaven, Give Thanks for Music-making Art
Psalm 26
Responses: James Buonemani (b. 1956)
Service: Herbert Howells, Collegium Regale (1892-1983)
Anthem: Blest Pair of Sirens – Charles Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
Order of Service:
Prelude
Opening Preces
Office Hymn: The Only Son from Heaven
Psalm 26
First Lesson — Joel 2:23–29
Magnificat
Second Lesson — Luke 1:46–55
Nunc Dimittis
Apostle’s Creed
Responses, Lord’s Prayer, and Collects
Greeting and Homily
Anthem: Blest Pair of Sirens – Charles Hubert H. Parry (1848-191
Spoken Prayers
Concluding Versicle and Response
Blessing
Hymn: Give Thanks for Music-making Art
Voluntary
Opening Preces
Office Hymn: The Only Son from Heaven
Psalm 26
First Lesson — Joel 2:23–29
Magnificat
Second Lesson — Luke 1:46–55
Nunc Dimittis
Apostle’s Creed
Responses, Lord’s Prayer, and Collects
Greeting and Homily
Anthem: Blest Pair of Sirens – Charles Hubert H. Parry (1848-191
Spoken Prayers
Concluding Versicle and Response
Blessing
Hymn: Give Thanks for Music-making Art
Voluntary
Anthem: Blest Pair of Sirens – Charles Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’n’s joy,
Sphere-born, harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ,
Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce.
And to our high-raised phantasy present
That undisturbèd song of pure concent,
Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne
To Him that sits thereon,
With saintly shout and solemn jubilee;
Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row,
Their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow,
And the Cherubic host, in thousand quires,
Touch their immortal harps of golden wires,
With those just spirits that wear victorious palms,
Hymns devout and holy psalms
Singing everlastingly.
That we on earth with undiscording voice
May rightly answer that melodious noise;
As once we did, till disproportioned sin
Jarred against nature’s chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair music that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed
In perfect diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.
O may we soon again renew that song,
And keep in tune with Heav’n, till God ere long
To His celestial concert us unite,
To live with Him, and sing in endless morn of light.
Sphere-born, harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ,
Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce.
And to our high-raised phantasy present
That undisturbèd song of pure concent,
Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne
To Him that sits thereon,
With saintly shout and solemn jubilee;
Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row,
Their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow,
And the Cherubic host, in thousand quires,
Touch their immortal harps of golden wires,
With those just spirits that wear victorious palms,
Hymns devout and holy psalms
Singing everlastingly.
That we on earth with undiscording voice
May rightly answer that melodious noise;
As once we did, till disproportioned sin
Jarred against nature’s chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair music that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed
In perfect diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.
O may we soon again renew that song,
And keep in tune with Heav’n, till God ere long
To His celestial concert us unite,
To live with Him, and sing in endless morn of light.
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