Music for Holy Week 2014

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Palm Sunday, April 13
Organ Music at 10:45am
Récit de Tierce en taille by Nicolas de Grigny
Kyrie III (Klavierübung) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Choral Music at 11:00am
Lift up your heads (from Messiah) by Handel
Christus factus est by Anton Bruckner
Ave Christe by Josquin des Prez

Evening Service of Meditation and Sacrament at 7pm with solo chants

Maundy Thursday, April 17
Organ Music at 5:45pm
Tierce en taille (Pange Lingua) by Nicolas de Grigny
Le Banquet Céleste by Olivier Messiaen
Choral Music at 6:00pm
Gregorian chants
Ubi caritas by Maurice Duruflé
O Sacrum Convivium by Olivier Messiaen
Tantum ergo by Maurice Duruflé

Good Friday, April 18
Organ Music at 11:55am
O Mensch bewein’ by J. S. Bach
Choral Music at 12 noon until 3pm:
Gregorian chants
Selections from Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc
Ave verum Corpus by Josquin des Prez

Easter Sunday, April 20
Organ Music at 10:45am
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne) by J. S. Bach
Choral Music at 11:00:am
Gloria in B-flat Major by Charles Villiers Stanford
Worthy is the Lamb (from Messiah) by Handel
Holy, Holy, Holy (from Elijah) by Felix Mendelssohn
Gregorian chants
Thou hollowed chosen morn by Johann Schein
On Easter morn (Scottish melody)
Exsultate justi by Lodovico Viadana
O taste and see by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Organ Postlude: Toccata (Symphonie V) by Charles-Marie Widor

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In this week’s newsletter, the rector reflects on “Glorians”—a term from Terry Tempest Williams describing encounters with grace and wonder in the natural world, like an ant carrying a pink blossom across the desert or the discovery that ancient horseshoe crabs have blue blood used to test vaccine purity. These ordinary, extraordinary moments reveal our vulnerability and connection with creation, calling us to lament, praise, and care. Mother Liz links this to Sunday’s gospel promise that we dwell in Christ and Christ in us—a mysterious communion revealed to those who love, inviting us to be present to the holy in the everyday.

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