St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket (Episcopal)
May 22, 2022
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Holy Eucharist
Ringing the Bell
Prelude Chant de Paix (Song of Peace)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Opening Hymn 400 All creatures of our God and King Lass tuns erfreuen
The Easter Acclamation
Celebrant Alleluia. Christ is risen.
People The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia.
Gloria S280 Glory to God
Setting: Robert Powell (b. 1932)
Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world; have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father; receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Collect of the Day
The Lessons
A Reading from Acts 16:9-15
Psalm 67 (chanted) Setting: Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946) Vocalists
A Reading from Revelation 21:10, 22:22-22:5
The Holy Gospel according to John (14:23-29)
Sermon Sam Baker
Music Meditation Prière
Pierre de Bréville (1861-1949)
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 A Prayer of Guidance Vocalists
Words: Book of Common Prayer; Music: Dick Sanderman (b. 1956)
Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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 The Tree of Life Ann Martindale, Dan Rabold
Text: Anonymous, from a collection of Joshua Smith, New Hampshire, 1784
Music: Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit, and always green: The trees of nature fruitless be Compared with Christ the apple tree. His beauty doth all things excel: By faith I know, but ne’er can tell The glory which I now can see In Jesus Christ the apple tree. W For happiness I long have sought, And pleasure dearly I have bought: I missed of all: but now I see ‘Tis found in Christ the apple tree. W I’m weary with my former toil, Here I will sit and rest awhile: Under the shadow I will be Of Jesus Christ the apple tree. W This fruit doth make my soul to thrive, It keeps my dying faith alive; Which makes my soul in hast to be With Jesus Christ the apple tree.
Postcommunion Prayer (BCP 365)
Easter Blessing
Hymn 533 How wondrous and great thy works, God of praise Lyons
Dismissal
Voluntary Carillon Louise Vierne (1870-1937)
Preacher Sam Baker
The Celebrant The Rev. Whitney Burr
Deacon The Rev. Susan Phillips
Verger Curtis Barnes
Acolyte Paul Borneman III
Prayers of the People Paul Borneman III
Readers Karen MacNab, Jack Williams
Ushers Martin McKerrow, Patsy Wright
Altar Guild Sister Susanna, Ann Oliver
Vocalists Deborah Beale, Alison Boughrum,
Ann Martindale, Jenny Paradis, Dan Rabold,
Libby Tracey, Margot Young
Music Notes
The organ music this Sunday features 20th-century French composers, two of whom, as it happens, were blind – Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III (1907-1991), and Louis Vierne (1870-1937).
Jean Langlais was a composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. His works include masses and organ music, some based on Gregorian themes, enhanced by polymodal harmonies, as well as music for other forces. Born in Brittany, Langlais became blind due to glaucoma when he was only two years old and was sent to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) in Paris, where he began to study the organ. From there he progressed to the Paris Conservatoire, obtaining prizes in organ and studying composition with Marcel Dupré and Paul Dukas. He also studied improvisation with Charles Tournemire. It was as an organist that Langlais made his name, following in the footsteps of César Franck and Charles Tournemire as principal organist at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris in 1945, a post in which he remained until 1988. He was much in demand as a concert organist, and widely toured across Europe and the United States.
Louis Vierne was nearly blind from birth due to congenital cataracts. His gift for music, however, was discovered at an early age and after completing school in the provinces, Louis Vierne entered the Paris Conservatory. From 1892, Vierne served as an assistant to the organist Charles-Marie Widor at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Vierne subsequently became principal organist at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a post he held from 1900 until his death in 1937. Vierne’s congenital cataracts did not make him completely blind, but he was "legally blind." Early in his career, he composed using outsized manuscript paper and a large pencil. Later in life, as his already limited sight continued to diminish, he resorted to Braille to do most of his work. Vierne suffered a stroke while giving his 1,750th organ recital at Notre-Dame de Paris on the evening of June 2, 1937. He thus fulfilled his oft-stated lifelong dream – to die at the console of the great organ of Notre-Dame.
