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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. 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 first Sunday in Lent, the choir will sing Psalm 103, the Dallas service by Herbert Howells, and as the anthem, Imperium Expectavi by Orlando de Lasso.
Kit Jacobson:We begin with an invocation of God's presence, asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise. Please join us now as we begin together in prayer.
Father Cody Turner:The days of penitence are come to us for the redemption of our sin and the saving of our souls. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Let us therefore in these days approve ourselves as the servants of God in much patience, in watchings, in fastings, and by love unfeigned.
Father Cody Turner:Oh All glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy Ghost.
Scott Cantrell:A reading from the prophet Daniel. Then I, Daniel, turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sack cloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord, my God, and made confession, saying, ah, Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you and keep your command ments. We have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances. We have not listened to your servants, the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
Scott Cantrell:Righteousness is on your side, o Lord, but open shame as at this day falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you. Open shame, o lord, falls on us, our kings, our princes, and our ancestors because we have sinned against you. To the lord, our god, belongs mercy and forgiveness. But we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets. Here endeth the lesson.
Scott Cantrell:A reading from the gospel according to Saint John. Then Jesus cried aloud, whoever believes in me believes not in me, but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness. I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them.
Scott Cantrell:For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge. On the last day, the word that I have spoken will serve as judge. For I have not spoken on my own, but the father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life.
Scott Cantrell:What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the father has told me. Here endeth the lesson.
Father Cody Turner:I believe in God, the Father almighty, The Lord be with you. Almighty God, whose blessed son was led by the spirit to be tempted by Satan, may speak to help thy servants who are assaulted by manifold temptations. And as thou knowest their several infirmities, let each one find thee mighty to save through Jesus Christ, thy son, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the Holy everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and does forgive the sins of all 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 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 and rest in quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ our savior.
Father Cody Turner:Light in our 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 thy only son, our savior, Jesus Christ.
Father Cody Turner:Please be seated. A warm welcome to Church of the Incarnation for this service of a choral even Song. If you are a guest or new to Incarnation, please do take a moment to fill out the gold topped card in the pew rack in front of you and drop it in the offering plate as it goes by. Also, if you come in bearing a specific need this Lenten season, we invite you to use the back of that same gold topped card to drop it to include your prayer request. Drop it in the offering plate.
Father Cody Turner:The clergy team would be delighted to pray for you this evening and throughout this week. In addition to that, we do hope that you'll make plans to join us in the narthex just straight out the back after the service is over. There will be some refreshments and a time of fellowship to follow the service. Thanks again for your presence here this evening. Let us kneel to pray.
Father Cody Turner:Almighty God, father of our Lord, father of all mercies, we done unworthy servants do give the 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, 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 thee, give us that due sins 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 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.
Father Cody Turner:Amen. Almighty God who has given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and us 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.
Father Cody Turner:The Lord be with you. Let us bless the lord. The grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the
Father Cody Turner:love of god and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us
Father Cody Turner:all evermore.