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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.
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's band's repertoire from ancient monastic chants to the soaring anthems of the Victorian era to masterpieces of the twentieth century. The choir will sing Psalm 34, the Gloucester Service by Herbert Howells, and is the anthem of Pablo Casals.
Christopher Jacobson:We begin with an invocation of God's asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise. Please join us now as we begin together in prayer.
Bishop Greg Brewer:If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Oh lord, open our lips. Oh god makes speed to save us. Glory to the father and to the son and to the holy ghost.
Scott Cantrell:A reading from the book of Genesis. Joseph commanded the stewards of his house, fill the men's sacks with food as much as they can carry and put each man's money in the top of his sack. Put my cup, the silver cup, in the top of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain. And he did as Joseph told him, as soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys. When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, go follow after the men and when you overtake them, say to them, why have you returned to evil for good?
Scott Cantrell:Why have you stolen my silver cup? Is it not from this that my lord drinks? Does he not indeed use it for divination? You have done wrong in doing this. When he overtook them, he repeated these words to them.
Scott Cantrell:They said to him, why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing. Look, the money that we found at the top of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your lord's house? Should it be found with any one of your servants, let him die.
Scott Cantrell:Moreover, the rest of us will become my lord's slaves. He said, even so in accordance with your words, let it be. He with whom it is found shall become my slave, but the rest of you shall go free. Then each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and each opened his sack. He searched beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Scott Cantrell:At this, they tore their clothes. Then each one loaded his donkey and they returned to the city. Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house while he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him. Joseph said to them, what deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that one such as I can practice divination?
Scott Cantrell:And Judah said, what can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants. Here we are then, my lord's slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found.
Scott Cantrell:But he said, far be it from me that I should do so. Only the one in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father. Here endeth the lesson. A reading from the gospel according to Saint John.
Scott Cantrell:Jesus said, very truly I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here. When the dead will hear the voice of the son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the father has life in himself, so he has granted the son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment because he is the son of man. Do not be astonished at this for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out.
Scott Cantrell:Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. Here endeth the lesson.
Bishop Greg Brewer:I believe in God. The lord be with you. Our father, Endure thy ministers with righteousness. And lead thy souls alive. O Lord, save thy people.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Give peace in our time, oh lord. Almighty god, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves, keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls, that we being defended from all adversities, which may happen to the body, and from evil thoughts, which may assault and hurt the soul, through Jesus Christ, our lord, who live it and reign it with thee and the holy spirit, one god, forever and ever. 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. Oh god, from whom all holy desires, all good councils, 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.
Bishop Greg Brewer: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. Please be seated. Welcome to the Church of the Incarnation and this service of Choral Evensong. If you are a guest here at Incarnation, we are particularly welcome that you would join us. There is a gold topped communication card in the pew rack in front of us.
Bishop Greg Brewer:If you'd like to let us know that you were here and so that you could know more about our life together here at Church of the Incarnation and following Evensong, you are warmly invited to a reception in the Narthex. Thank you for coming. Let us kneel as you are able for us 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 to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life.
Bishop Greg Brewer: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 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. Amen. Almighty god, who has given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dust promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, wilt grant their requests.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Fulfill now, oh lord, our 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. The grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost be with us all ever