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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 this week's Choral Evensong podcast from Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas. Each Sunday of the academic year, we gather at today's end for a sacred time of prayer, music, and 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 channeling ancient monastic chants to the soaring anthems of the Victorian era to masterpieces of the twentieth century. This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalm one zero three, Edmund Rubre's service in a flat, and as the anthem, Edward Elgar's, the spirit of the Lord. 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.
Father Joe Dewey:The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, oh God, thou will not despise. A reading from the book
Reader:of Deuteronomy. Moses convened all Israel and said to them, this entire commandment that I command you today, you must diligently observe so that you may live and increase and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments. He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with mana, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted. In order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the lord.
Reader:The clothes on your back did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child, so the lord, your god, disciplines you. Therefore, keep the commandments of the lord, your god, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the lord your god is bringing you into the into good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs, and underground waters, welling up in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are are iron, and from hills, you may mine copper. You you shall eat your fill and bless the lord your god for the god land, the good land that you have been given.
Reader:Here in this the lesson.
Father Joe Dewey:A reading from the gospel according to Saint Mark. John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, And people came and said to him, why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast? Jesus said to them, the wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
Father Joe Dewey:No one sews a piece of unstruck cloth on an old cloth. Otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. So and no no one puts new wine into old wine skins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and so are the skins. But one puts new wine into fresh wine skins.
Father Joe Dewey:Here endeth the lesson.
Father Joe Dewey:I believe in God. Almighty god, whose blessed son was led by the spirit to be tempted by Satan, make speed to help thy servants who are assaulted by manifold temptations. And as thou knowest their several infirmities, let each one find thee mighty to say, through Jesus Christ, thy son, our lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirit, one god now and forever. Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and thus forgive the sins of all those who are penitent, Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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.
Father Joe Dewey:Thy not darkness, we beseech thee, o lord, and by thy great mercy, defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thine only son, our savior, Jesus Christ.
Father Joe Dewey:Please be seated. Welcome to Church of the Incarnation and our Choral Evensong service. Happy to see your faces. A special welcome to any of you who may be visiting with us for the first time. We're so honored that you would spend your evening with us and are hoping that the Lord is meeting you in this space in a powerful way.
Father Joe Dewey:Friends, there will be a reception after this service in the Narthex. There you can receive some refreshments, drinks and can connect with the choir and others who have gathered. I encourage you to stay after the service and join me and those in this service. Also, today is the first Sunday in the season of Lent and our church has put together a devotional for those of you who would like a guide and you're praying. And it is guiding you through the book of Lamentations, is a wonderful book to be reading throughout the season of Lent.
Father Joe Dewey:And so there are some devotionals outside of the church in the narthex. I encourage you to grab one and take it with you. Let us kneel to pray. Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty things 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.
Father Joe Dewey:But above all, for thine inestible love and the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ. For the means of grace and for the hope of glory. And we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeigningly thankful, and that we may show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days. Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Father Joe Dewey:to whom with thee
Father Joe Dewey: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 thus promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their request. 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.
Father Joe Dewey:The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore.