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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 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. This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalm 34, Matthew Larkin's faux bourbon service as the canticles, and for the anthem, Leo Sourby's stirring setting of Psalm 122. I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house 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.
Fr. Cody Turner:If ye love me keep my commandments and I will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Alleluia.
Fr. Cody Turner:Oh lord, open now our lips. Oh, may it speak to save us. Glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost.
Scott Cantrell:A reading from the book of Leviticus. The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai saying, speak to the Israelites and say to them, when you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord. Six years, you shall sow your field, and six years, you shall prune your vineyard and gather in their yield. But in the seventh year, there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
Scott Cantrell:You shall not reap the undergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine. It shall be a year of complete rest for the land. You may eat what the land yields during its Sabbath. You, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound laborers who live with you, for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land, all its yield shall be for food. Ye shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty nine years.
Scott Cantrell:Then ye shall have the trumpet sounded loud. On the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement, you shall have the trumpet sounded throughout all your land, and you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you. You shall return every one of you to your property and every one of you to your family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you.
Scott Cantrell:You shall not sow or reap the aftergrowth or harvest the unpruned vines, for it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat only what the field itself produces. In this year of jubilee, you shall return, every one of you, to your property. When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat one another.
Scott Cantrell:When you buy from your neighbor, you shall pay only for the number of years until the jubilee. The seller shall charge you only for the remaining crop years. If the years are more, you shall increase the price and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price, for it is a certain number of harvest that are being sold to you. You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God. Here endeth the lesson.
Scott Cantrell:A reading from the gospel according to Saint Luke. Someone in the crowd said to him, teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me. But he said to him, friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you? And he said to them, take care. Be on your guard against all kinds of greed for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.
Scott Cantrell:Then he told them a parable. The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, what should I do for I have no place to store my crops? Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Scott Cantrell:And I will say to my soul, soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, you fool. This very night, your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?
Scott Cantrell:So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves, but are not rich toward God. Here endeth the lesson.
Fr. Cody Turner:I believe in God. The Lord be with you. I believe in all I see. Let us pray. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us.
Fr. Cody Turner:O Lord, save the state. Into thy ministers with righteousness. Oh god, who has prepared for those who love thee such good things as past man's understanding. Pour into our hearts such love toward thee that we loving thee in all things and above all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that we can desire. Through Jesus Christ our lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy spirit, one god forever and ever.
Fr. Cody Turner:O god, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works to proceed. Given to 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.
Fr. Cody Turner:You may be seated. A warm welcome to church at the Incarnation here for this special service of Choral Evensong. It's a delight to be able to pray with you here this evening. A special welcome to all the mothers in the room. A happy Mother's Day to you all.
Fr. Cody Turner:If you are a guest or new to Incarnation and would like to know more about our church, there is a gold topped card in the pew rack in front of you. Please fill it out and drop it in the offering plate. We would be delighted to make note of your attendance here today. In addition to that, if you come bearing specific prayer request that draws you here into the surface of prayer this evening, there is on the backside of that gold topped card a place for you to be able to fill out that prayer request, drop it in the offering plate, and the clergy team would be delighted to pray for you this Tuesday during our pastoral care meeting. Finally, following Evensong, as is our custom, there will be a reception in the NorthX just straight out back.
Fr. Cody Turner:Please join us for a time of fellowship with food and drink. Thank you so much for here this evening. Let us kneel to pray. Almighty God, father of all mercies, we then unworthy servants to 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, but above all for thine inestimable love and the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
Fr. Cody Turner:And we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly 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, and 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 does 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.
Fr. Cody Turner:Amen.
Fr. Cody Turner:The Lord be with you. Let us bless the Lord. The grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love
Fr. Cody Turner:of god and the fellowship of
Fr. Cody Turner:the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore.