UPCOMING SERVICE MUSIC

Quinquagesima (February 19, 2012)

Processional Hymn:  “Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost” (#379)
Sequence Hymn:  “Te Deum laudamus” (#613/617)
Sermon Hymn: “O Thou who camest from above” (#463)
Communion Hymns:  “Now, my tongue, the myst’ry telling” (#199, pange lingua)
“Therefore we, before Him bending” (#200, tantum ergo)
Closing Hymn:  “Love divine all loves excelling (#479)

Anthem:  “O be joyful in the Lord”
Text: Psalm 100
Music: John Ireland (1879-1962)

Communion Motet:  “Tantum ergo”
Text: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Music: Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) 
Translation: “So let us devoutly revere this great sacrament, and the old covenant may give way to the new rite. May faith grant assistance to the deficiency of our senses. Jubilant praise, glory, laud, honor, and benediction be to the Father and the Son. Equal praise be to Him that proceeds from the two.”

Choral Amen:  “Twofold Amen,” Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

The Gospel reading for this day from St. Luke chapter 18 tells the story of Jesus’ healing of a blind man. The image above is a mosaic from the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, a church originally dedicated in 504 ad.