This Coming Sunday's Bulletin:

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

5 September 2010

Please click on the highlighted hymn titles to hear the hymn tune.

10:15 a.m. - Holy Eucharist

The Gathering of the Community

Organ: Sweet Hour of Prayer (arr. John Longhurst)
Hymn 5: Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies (Tune: #160)
Greeting
Collect of the Day
Reading: Jeremiah 18:1-11
Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17
Reading: Philemon 1:1-21
Gospel Acclamation

The Gospel: Luke 14:25-33
Sermon: Hanns Skoutajan

The Ministry of Prayer

Prayers of the People
The Peace

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

Offertory Hymn 73: One Bread, One Body
The Preparation of the Gifts
The Great Thanksgiving
Fraction Hymn 63: Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup

Eat this bread, drink this cup, come to me and never be hungry.
Eat this bread, drink this cup, trust in me and you will not thirst.

During Communion: Harmonies du soir (Sigfrid Karg-Elert)
Prayers after Communion
Doxology
Announcements
Polychronia (MB-24)
Blessing
Hymn 438: O Jesus, I Have Promised (Tune: #444)
Dismissal
Organ Postlude: Prelude in Classical Style (Gordon Young)

Today's Psalm Refrain

Musical Notes

The organ music during communion this morning is Harmonies du soir, a beautiful piece of impressionist music by the German organist and composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933). Karg-Elert was an outsider in his day, a maverick composer who sought new ways of exploiting the symphonic sounds of the organ (sounds which are the basis of our new digital organ). He was encouraged in his work by Edvard Grieg, but largely ignored by his contemporaries in Liepzig; however, his music has always been very popular in England.

In traditional music, there is a sense of motion, of moving forward through the sound. This happens because certain notes of the scale seem to naturally move toward others. Building chords out of these notes creates "harmony", and the rules of classical harmony dictate the ways in which the notes of a chord should resolve, a kind of tension and release. Karg-Elert turned these rules on their head, taking a forward-moving chord, and resolving it into another forward-moving chord, into another. It gives his music an undercurrent of always moving, never resting. He especially loved the quiet sounds of the organ. Listen at the end of this morning's piece, how the strings celeste in the main organ are echoed in the ethereal Unda Maris stop of the antiphonal organ.

Assisting this Sunday:

8:00 am
Server: John Veenstra
Reader: Bev Bewley

10:15 am
Crucifer: Wendy McCutcheon
Server: Joan Fulthorp Jubb
Acolyte: Susmita Darjee
Readers: Joan Dolphin (OT), Monica Patten (NT)
Cantor: Peggy Lister
Intercessor: Ron Chaplin
Communion Assistants: Rosemary and Peter Anderson
Duty Warden: Margaret Capelazo
Sidespeople: Patricia Baratta, Maura Beecher, Alex Bissett, Jim Cummings
Altar Guild: Beverlee Bewley, Melodie Conlon
Wheelchair Aide: Cathy and Ron Hannah
Tower Bell: Pat Love
After-service Lemon Aid: Cathy and Ron Hannah

Next Sunday

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
12 September 2010

Next Sunday's Services:

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9.00 a.m. Bible Study
10:15 a.m. Sung Eucharist with Church School
7:00 p.m. Prayer for people concerned with AIDS
9:00 p.m. Compline

The readings for next Sunday are:

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; and Luke 15:1-10

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