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A full Choral Evensong service broadcast from the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, TX. Each Sunday afternoon, the Incarnation Choir presents Choral Evensong, one of the Anglican tradition's finest liturgical offerings. Begin your week with rest and quietness, surrounded by the beauty of the Church of the Incarnation. Join in prayer and reflection through the exquisite music.
Welcome to Choral Evensong from Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas. I invite you to tune in each week as we gather at day's end for a sacred time of prayer, music, scripture, An invitation to pause and lift our hearts and minds in thanksgiving toward the creator of all truth and beauty. The rich Anglican choral tradition spans repertoire from ancient monastic chants to the soaring anthems of the Victorian era to masterpieces of the twentieth century. This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalm 114, stand for its evening service in a, and as the anthem, if we believe that Jesus Died by John Kos. We begin with an invocation of God's presence, asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise.
Christopher Jacobson:Please join us now as we begin together in prayer.
Pastor:Jesus said unto his disciples, bring of the fish which ye have now caught. Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes. Alleluia.
Patricia Brooks:A reading from the book of Exodus. Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. After Moses had sent away his wife, Zipporah, his father-in-law, Jethro, took her back along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom, for he had said, I have been an alien in a foreign land. And the name of the other one was Eliezer, for he had said, the god of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of pharaoh.
Patricia Brooks:Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, along with Moses' sons and wife, came into the wilderness where Moses was encamped at the mountain of God. He sent word to Moses. I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons. So Moses went out to meet his father -in-law. He bowed down and kissed him.
Patricia Brooks:Each asked after the other's welfare, and they went into the tent. Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that they had found them on the way, and how the lord had delivered them. Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the lord had done to Israel in delivering them from the Egyptians. Jethro said, blessed be the lord who has delivered you from the Egyptians and from pharaoh. Now I know that the lord is greater than all gods because he delivered the people from the Egyptians when they dealt arrogantly with them.
Patricia Brooks:And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. And Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God. Here endeth the lesson. A reading from the gospel according to Saint Mark. Now after Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Patricia Brooks:She went out and told those who had been with him while they were mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After this, he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. Later, he appeared to the 11 themselves as they were sitting at a table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Patricia Brooks:And he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe. By using my name, they will cast out demons. They will speak in new tongues.
Patricia Brooks:They will pick up snakes. And if they drink any deadly thing, it will not not hurt them. Then they will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover. So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.
Patricia Brooks:Here endeth the lesson.
Pastor:Let us pray. Oh, God, whose blessed son didst manifest himself and his disciples in the breaking of bread. Open, we pray thee, the eyes of our faith that we may behold him in all his his redeeming work through the same thy son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed, Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time and rest in quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ, our savior. Light in our darkness, we beseech thee, oh lord, and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only son, our savior, Jesus Christ.
Pastor:Please be seated. Welcome to Church of the Incarnation and this evening service of Choral Evensong. If you are a guest or new to the parish, I would encourage you to fill out one of those gold topped cards in the pew back in front of you. If you'd like to find out more about the parish or if you would like for us to be in touch with you in any way. And announcement for everyone, first timers and regulars, we do warmly invite you to a reception in the Narfex at the conclusion of this service.
Pastor:Let us kneel to pray. Almighty God, father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, to give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of grace and for the hope of glory. And we beseech bless thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may unfeithably thankful,
Pastor:and that
Pastor:we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves for thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen. Almighty God, who has given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee, and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests. Fulfill now, o Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.
Pastor:The Lord be with you. Let us bless the Lord. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore.