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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, 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 from ancient monastic chants to the soaring anthems of the Victorian era to masterpieces of the twentieth century. This afternoon on the last Sunday before Lent, the choir will sing Psalms one hundred fourteen and one hundred fifteen, Charles Villiers Stanford's service in g, and as the anthem, the 12, poetry of w h Auden set to music by sir William Walton. We begin with an invocation of God's presence asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise.
Kit Jacobson:Please join us now as we begin together in prayer.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them saying, tell the vision to no man until the son of man be risen again from the
Reader:dead. Alleluia.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:O Lord, open thou our lips.
Reader:A reading from the wisdom of Jesus, son of Sirach. Then Elijah rose, a prophet like fire, and his word burned like a torch. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal, he made them few in number. By the word of the lord, he shut up the heavens and also three times brought down fire. How glorious you were, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds.
Reader:Who can boast as you can? You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades by the word of the most high, who sent kings down to destruction and famous men from their sickbeds, who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Herod, who anointed kings to inflict retribution and prophets to succeed you, who were taken up by a whirlwind of fire in a chariot with horses of fire, who were prepared at the anointed time to calm wrath before it breaks out in fury, to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and restore the tribes of Jacob. Happy are those who saw you and were adorned in love for we also shall surely live. Here ended the lesson. A reading from the gospel according to Saint Luke.
Reader:Once when Jesus was praying alone with only the disciples near him,
Bishop Gregory Brewer:he asked them,
Reader:who do the crowds say I am? They answered, John the Baptist. But others, Elijah, and that of the ancient prophets had risen. He said to them, but who do you say that I am? Peter answered, the Messiah of God.
Reader:He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone saying, the son of man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, scribes and be killed, and on the third day, be raised. Then he said to them all, if any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it. And those who lose their life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?
Reader:Those who are ashamed of me and of my words, of them the son of man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the father and of the holy angels. Indeed, I truly tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God. Here in the the lesson.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:I believe in God. Our father, O Lord, save the state. Endue thy ministers with righteousness. Amen. O Lord, save thy people.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:Give peace in our time, O Lord. The God. O God, make clean our hearts within us. Begotten son didst reveal his glory upon the holy mount. Grant unto us that we beholding by faith the light of his countenance may be strengthened to bear our cross and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory through the same Jesus Christ our lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirit, one god for ever and ever.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:O god, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works to 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 in rest and 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 through the love of thy only son, our savior, Jesus Christ. Please be seated.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:Welcome to the Church of the Incarnation and this service of choral evensong. If you are a guest or new to incarnation, I invite you to use the gold tipped card in the pew rack in front of you to let us know that you were here so that we can help you find out more about this parish. Following evensong you were warmly invited to reception in the Narthex. And of course this week begins our journey in lent services for Ash Wednesday are available on our parish website. Thank you for coming.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:Let us kneel to pray. Almighty God, father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and 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.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:And we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfailingly thankful, and that we 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 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 supplication unto thee and dust 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.
Bishop Gregory Brewer:Granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. The grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost be with us all evermore.