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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.
Come 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. It is a pleasure this afternoon to welcome the choristers from Saint Michael and All Angels Dallas to Incarnation and their director of music, Tom Hammond Davies, who is leading tonight's service. The choir will sing Psalm 103, Sarah McDonald's evening service in a flat, and the anthem, God so loved the world by Bob Chillcott. 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.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:Other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. Alleluia.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:O Lord, open thou our lips. My heart shall lightness. O God, make speed to save us. Glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost.
Reader:A reading from the book of Exodus. The Lord said to Moses, then bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites to serve me as priests. Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. You shall make sacred vestments for the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron and you shall speak to all who are skillful whom I have endowed with skill so that they may so that they make Aaron's vestments to consecrate him for my priesthood. These are the vestments that they shall make.
Reader:A breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. When they make these sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. They shall use gold, blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen. In the breastpiece of judgment shall put the Urim and the Thummim and they shall be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the Israelites on his heart before the Lord continually.
Reader:You shall make the robe of the Ephod all of blue. It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it with a woven binding around its edge like the opening in a garment so that it may not be torn. On its lower hem, you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and crimson yarns all around the lower hem with bells of gold between them all around, a golden bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe. Aaron shall wear it when he ministers and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the Lord and when he comes out so that he may not die. You shall make a rosette of pure gold and engrave on it like the engraving of a signet, holy to the Lord.
Reader:You shall fasten it on the turban with a blue cord. It shall be on the front of the turban. It shall be on Aaron's forehead and Aaron shall take on himself any guilt incurred in the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as their sacred donations. It shall always be on his forehead in order that they may find favor before the Lord. Here endeth the lesson.
Reader:A reading from the gospel apostles gathered around Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while. For many were coming and going and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
Reader:As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd and he had compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd and he began to teach them many things. When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, this is a deserted place and the hour is now very late. Send them away so that they may go into surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat. But he answered them, you give them something to eat. And they said to him, are we to go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?
Reader:And he said to them, how many loaves have you? Go and see. When they had found out, they said, five and two fish. Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.
Reader:Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled and they took up 12 baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered 5,000 men. Here endeth the lesson.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:I believe in God. Mercy upon us. Lord, Lord, have mercy mercy upon O Lord, save the state and do thy ministers with righteousness. O Lord, save thy people. Oh, whose son Jesus is the good shepherd of thy people.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:Grant that when we hear his voice, we may know him who calleth us each by name and follow where he doth lead, who with thee and the holy spirit liveth and reigneth one God forever and ever. O 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 and rest and quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ our savior. Amen. 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.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:Please be seated. And welcome to Church Incarnation in the service of Choral Evensong, especially if this is your first time visiting with us in this space. We're really, really glad that you're here. If you are indeed a guest and would like to know more information about this parish, we do welcome you to fill out the gold tipped cards and the p racks in front of you. You can give us your information and we would be happy to be in touch with you and tell you more about this parish.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:This evening, we do want to give a special welcome to the Saint Michael and All Angels choristers who are here with us this morning this evening rather, and especially to the director of music, Tom Hammond Davies. We're really, really glad that you are here and it's really good to worship with all of you. Thank you. Following Evensong, you're all warmly invited to reception in the NorthX. Immediately out those double doors, we'll have wine and cheese in the time of fellowship.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:We do invite you to join. Again, thank you for being here with us this evening. 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 to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life.
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Father Jordan Griesbeck:that of all thy mercies, that we 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 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. I thus promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests.
Father Jordan Griesbeck: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.
Father Jordan Griesbeck:The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore.