Sermon: 5th Sunday of Easter
Listen to the sermon preached at our worship service on May 2, 2021.
Category: Podcast
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Music – Hymns and Anthem for April 25
This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 25, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.
- My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Resignation)
- O noblissima viriditas – Hildegard of Bingen (Sung by Hai-Ting Chinn)
- Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing (Gelobt sei Gott)
Guest Preacher: 4th Sunday of Easter
We were pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes as our guest preacher for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 25, 2021. An activist, theologian, minister, professor, speaker, musician and author, Dr. Carvalhaes is the Associate Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Sermon – The Third Sunday of Easter
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Music – Hymns and Anthem for April 18
This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Third Sunday of Easter, April 18, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.
- Jesus Lives! Thy Terrors Now (St. Albinus)
- See What Love Hath the Father – Felix Mendelssohn
- Christ the Lord Is Risen Again (Christ ist erstanden)
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Music – Hymns and Anthem for April 11
This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Second Sunday of Easter, April 11, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.
- O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing (O filii et filiae)
- But Thanks Be to God (from Messiah) – George Frideric Handel
- We Walk by Faith, and Not by Sight (St. Botolph)
Sermon – The Second Sunday of Easter
Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Sermon – Easter Sunday
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Sermon – The Great Vigil of Easter
O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
EASTER MUSIC – Hymns and Anthems
Resurrection! Descants! Unmoistened feet*! In this podcast, we’re sharing the preludial anthems, hymns, and featured anthem — Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus — recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s Easter worship services on April 3 (Great Vigil) and April 4 (Easter Day), 2021, which took place online via Zoom.
- Sing Ye to the Lord – Edward Bairstow
- On Easter Morn – Scottish Melody, arr. by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
- Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Easter Hymn)
- Thou Hallowed Chosen Morn of Praise – Johann Hermann Schein
- *Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (St. Kevin)
- Exsultate Justi – Lodovico Viadana
- The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done (Victor)
- O Taste and See – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) – George Frideric Handel