St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket (Episcopal)
May 15, 2022
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Holy Eucharist
Ringing the Bell
Prelude Introductory Voluntary
Edmund Hart Turpin (1836-1907)
Opening Hymn 432 O praise ye the Lord! Laudate Dominum
The Easter Acclamation
Celebrant Alleluia. Christ is risen.
People The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia.
Gloria S236 A Song of Praise (Canticle 13)
Setting: John Rutter (b. 1945)
Glory to you, Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you. Glory to you for the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. Glory to you in the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you. Glory to you, seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. Glory to you, beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you. Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly
exalt you for ever.
Collect of the Day
The Lessons
A Reading from Acts 11:1-8
Psalm 148 (chanted) Setting: Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-1856)
A Reading from Revelation 21:1-6
The Holy Gospel according to John (13:31-35)
Sermon Curtis Barnes
Music Meditation Larghetto (excerpt)
F. Cunningham Woods (1862-1929)
Prayers of the People Form III (BCP 387)
Concluding Collect
The Peace
The Peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you.
Announcements
Offertory Brother, sister, let me serve you Vocalists
Words and Music: Richard Gillard (b. 1953)
Brother, sister, let me serve you; let me be as Christ to you; pray that I may have the grace to let you be my servant too. We are pilgrims on a journey, and companions on the road; we are here to help each other walk the mile and bear the load. I will hold the Christlight for you in the nighttime of your fear; I will hold my hand out to you, speak the peace you long to hear. I wil! weep when you are weeping; when you laugh I'll laugh with you; I will share your joy and sorrow, till we've seen this journey through. When we sing to God in heaven, we shall find such harmony, born of all we've known together of Christ's love and agony. Brother, sister, let me serve you; let me be as Christ to you; pray that l may have the grace to let you be my servant too.
Doxology Old 100th
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
The Holy Communion
The Breaking of the Bread
At the Communion Communion
Alfred R. Gaul (1837-1913)
Postcommunion Prayer (BCP 365)
Easter Blessing
Hymn 623 O what their joy and their glory must be O quanta qualia
Dismissal
Voluntary Jubilant March
W. John Reynolds (1861-1922)
The Celebrant The Rev. Whitney Burr
Deacon The Rev. Susan Phillips
Verger Curtis Barnes
Acolytes Genevieve, Juliet, Maria Frable
Prayers of the People Dorothy Baker
Readers Lucy Bixby, Vicky Goss
Ushers Peter Greenhalgh, Stacey Stuart
Altar Guild Cathy Ward, Olly Wolf, John Howish,
Christine Borneman
Vocalists Alison Boughrum, Andrew Cromartie,
Jenny Paradis, Don Rabold,
Libby Tracey
Live-Stream Tech Andrew Cromartie
Music Notes
The name “John Rutter,” is well known to choral singers and church musicians worldwide. Here at St. Paul’s, over the past number of weeks, we have been singing his Gloria (S236), and his anthems are performed frequently. I recently came across this “bio,” written in his own words:
Meet John
Well, it’s John here. I’m told I should introduce myself, so:
Gender: male
Nationality: British
Status: married
Age: not important
I’ve known I wanted to be a musician ever since I could walk and talk, and the story is true that I first discovered music at home when I lifted the lid of the old upright piano in my parents’ London apartment and started to prod the keys, while at nursery school I sang along loudly with all the other kids at morning assembly each day. My bewildered parents, probably driven crazy by the hours of piano improvisation and piping treble singing they endured, thought that if you can’t stop it at least get him to do it better, so they sent me at age seven for piano lessons where my piano teacher told me to be a composer, or singer (or anything but please not a pianist).
Fortunately, the boys’ school my parents sent me to had a strong musical tradition, with daily choral worship led by the choir (I needed no second bidding to join) – and the director of music, Edward Chapman, was himself a gifted composer, a pupil in his Cambridge days of Charles Wood (a name that church musicians will know). He encouraged all of us to think composition was normal, ran a fine school choir and orchestra, and pointed my footsteps in the direction of Cambridge University, where I met David Willcocks, the legendary director of King’s College Choir, who took an interest in my compositions, encouraged me to conduct, and recommended me to Oxford University Press, who signed me up while I was still a student and have been my publisher ever since. I’m not sure where the intervening years have all gone, but in a way, I’m still that kid doodling at the piano with his inventions, only now I get paid for it. I compose, conduct, produce recordings, and try to cope with the flood of commitments that a musician’s life involves. Someday I’ll get round to some hobbies.
