SERVICE MUSIC

Second Sunday after Trinity (June 17, 2012)

Opening Hymn:  “God, my King, thy might confessing” (#280)
Sequence Hymn:  “Te Deum laudamus” (#613/617)
Sermon Hymn: “Blest be the tie that binds” (#495)
Communion Hymns:  “Sion, praise thy Saviour” (#193, weman)
“Very Bread, good Shepherd” (#194, unitas fratrum)
Closing Hymn:  “Praise the Lord through every nation” (#351)

Anthem:  “A new commandment”
Music: Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Text: St. John 13:34, 35

Communion Motet:  “Ego sum panis vivus”
Music: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Text: St. John 6:48-50

Translation: “I am the living bread. Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and are dead.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven: if any man eat of it, he will not die.”

Choral Amen:  “Fourfold Amen” by William Gibbons (1583-1625)