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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. This afternoon, the Incarnation Choristers will receive promotion through ribbons and medals and a special liturgy just before the anthem. This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalms eight and eighty four, Stanford's evening service in c, and as the anthem, the lord bless you and keep you by John Rutter.
Christopher 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.
Bishop Greg Brewer:I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the bright and morning star. I am the key of David. Alleluia.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Oh lord, open our lips. O God, who makes speed to save us.
Reader:A reading from the book of Leviticus. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, take Aaron and his sons with him, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for the purification offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. When the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting, Moses said to the congregation, this is what the Lord has commanded to be done. Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water.
Reader:He put the tunic on him, fastened the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. Then he put the decorated band of the ephod around him, tying the ephod to him with it. He placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the urine and the thummim, and he set the turban on his head, and on the turban in the front he set the golden ornament, the holy diadem, as the Lord had commanded Moses. Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it and consecrated them. He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its base to consecrate them.
Reader:He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. And Moses brought forward Aaron's sons and clothed them with tunics and fastened sashes around them and tied headdresses on them as the Lord had commanded Moses. Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his vestments and also on his sons and their vestments. Thus he consecrated Aaron vestments, and also his sons and their vestments. And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is the basket of ordination offerings as I was commanded.
Reader:Aaron and his sons shall eat it and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn with fire. You shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days until the day when your period of ordination is complete for it will take seven days to ordain you. As has been done today, the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you. You shall remain at the entrance of the tent meeting day and night for seven days keeping the Lord's charge so that you do not die for so have I been commanded. Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord had commanded through Moses.
Reader:Here endeth the lesson. A reading from the gospel according to Saint Luke. Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day as was his custom. He stood up to read and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He enrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written.
Reader:The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.
Reader:All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, is this not Joseph's son? He said to them, doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, doctor, cure yourself And you will say, do hear also in your hometown the things that we have heard you do at Capernaum. And he said, truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel at the time of Elijah when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land.
Reader:Yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zare Phath in Sidon. There were also many with a skin disease in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha and none of them was cleansed except for Naaman in the Syrian. When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them, and went on his way.
Reader:Here endeth the lesson.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Give peace in our time, oh lord. Jesus name for Christ. 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 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 for the love of thy only son, our savior, Jesus Christ.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Please be seated. Welcome to the Church of the Incarnation and this service of Choral Evensong. If you are a guest or new at Incarnation, I invite you to use the gold tipped card in the pew rack in front of you to let us know you were here so that we can help you find out more about parish. Following Evensong, you are warmly invited to a reception in the Narthex. We will now proceed with the office for the admission and promotion of chorus
Christopher Jacobson:the Lord.
Bishop Greg Brewer:The candidates for promotion for the Incarnation Choristers will now be presented.
Christopher Jacobson:Bishop Brewer, I present to you these choristers who are ready for promotion according to the guidelines set forth by the Royal School of Church Music.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Will you faithfully and reverently execute the duties of your ministry to the honor of God and the benefit of the members of this parish community? Will. It be known that through her diligence, Riley Abendano will remain a junior chorister and pre promoted to wear a white ribbon. Let it be known that through her diligence, Libby Hugh will continue as a junior chorister and be promoted to wear a light green ribbon. Let it be known that through her diligence, Paloma Allison will continue as a junior chorister and be promoted to wear a dark green ribbon.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Let it be known that through their diligence, Eli Wilson, Henry Hayes, and Reese Lockard will continue as junior choristers and be promoted to wear a purple ribbon. Let it be known that through her diligence, Millie Spencer will become a senior chorister and be promoted to wear a dark blue ribbon. Let it be known that through her time and dedication to the choir, Zadie Lockhart has joined the group of young adults which sings alongside the Incarnation Choir. In recognition of this achievement, I'm pleased to present to her with this engraved prayer book and hymnal for her use in each service. Let it be known that through his time and dedication to the choir, John Lima has also joined the group of young adults, which sings alongside the Incarnation Choir.
Bishop Greg Brewer:In recognition of this achievement, I am pleased to present to him with this engraved prayer book and hymnal for him to use in each service. The Lord be with you. Let us pray. O God whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven, Be ever present with thy servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by thy people on earth and grant to them even now glimpses of thy beauty and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled forevermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Bishop Greg Brewer:For all incarnation choristers here today, let us show our appreciation for their ministry. 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 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 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.
Bishop Greg Brewer: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 hast 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 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.
Bishop Greg Brewer:The lord be with you. Let us bless the lord.
Bishop Greg Brewer:Grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost be with us all evermore.