St Edmund's Episcopal Church San Marino

THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT | Liturgy & Music

November 27th, 2016

Preacher: Canon Woodward+
Celebrant: Canon Heffron+

Prelude: “Sleepers Wake For Night Is Flying”
– J.S. Bach
Processional #66 “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”
Trisagion
Gradual Hymn: #601 “O Day Of God Draw Nigh”
Offertory: “The Shepherds Sing” – Bob Chilcott
Joseph Garate; tenor soloist

The shepherds sing, and shall I silent be? My God, no hymn for thee?
My soul’s a shepherd too; a flock it feeds of thoughts and words and deeds.
Thy pasture is Thy word: the streams, Thy grace enriching all the place.
Shepherds and flock shall sing, and all my powers outsing the daylight hours.
Then we will sing and shine on our own day, and one another pay.
His beams shall cheer my breast, and both so twine
Till even his beams sing, and my music shine.
–Text by George Herbert (1593-1633)

Communion Music: “Rorate Coeli” – Jeanne Demessieux
Communion: #652 “Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind”

Recessional Hymn: #523 “Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken”

Postlude: “O Thou Of God The Father” – J.S. Bach