UPCOMING SERVICE MUSIC

Maundy Thursday (April 5, 2012)

Opening Hymn:  “Here, O my Lord” (#208, Penitentia)
Sequence Hymn:  “Alone thou goest forth, O Lord” (#68)
Sermon Hymn: “When I survey the wondrous cross” (#337)
Communion Hymns:  “Now, my tongue, the myst’ry telling” (#199, Pange Lingua)
“Therefore we, before him bending” (#200, Tantum Ergo)

Closing Hymns:  “Go to dark Gethsemene” (#70 )
“Let all mortal flesh keep silence” (#197, verses 1-3) 

Anthem:  “Iudas mercator pessimus”
Music: Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Text: Fourth Century Responsory based on Gospel texts

Translation:  “Judas, that dealer in wickedness, sought out the Lord with a kiss, and He, like an innocent lamb, did not refuse Judas’s kiss. For a handful of coins he delivered Christ up to the Jews. It would have been better for him, had he never been born.”

Communion Motet:  “Draw nigh and take”
Music: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Text: Latin hymn from the Bangor Antiphoner (ca. 690)

Choral Amen:  “Fivefold Amen” by César Franck (1822-1890)