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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 music, prayer, 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, the choir will sing Psalms nineteen and forty six, the Saint Paul's service by Herbert Howells, and as the anthem, by Francisco Guerrero.
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:I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee and I'm no more worthy to be called thy son.
Father Cody Turner:Oh, Lord, open now our lives.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:A reading from the book of Genesis. When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, who are these? And Joseph said to his father, they are my sons whom God has given me here. And he said, bring them to me please that I may bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age and he could not see well.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:So Joseph brought them near him and he kissed them and embraced them. Israel said to Joseph, I did not expect to see your face and here God has let me see your children also. Then Joseph removed them from his father's knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right and brought them near him. But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:He blessed Joseph and said, the God before whom my ancestors Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all harm. Bless the boys, and in them, let my name be perpetuated in the name of my ancestors, Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude on the earth. When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. Joseph said to his father, not so, my father.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:Since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head. But his father refused and said, I know my son. I know. He also become shall become a people and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he and his offering shall become a multitude of nations.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:So he blessed them that day saying, by you Israel will invoke blessings saying, God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. Then Israel said to Joseph, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors. I now give you one portion more than to your brothers, the portion that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow. Here endeth the lesson.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:A reading from the gospel according to Saint John. Jesus answered the people, do not work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the son of man will give you. For it is on him that God the father has set his seal. Then they said to him, what must we do to perform the works of God? Jesus answered them, this is the work of God, that you believe in him who has he whom he has sent.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:So they said to him, what sign are you going to give to us then so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness as it had written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, very truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to him, sir, give us his bread always. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
Patsy (Patricia) Brooks:Everything that the father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me, I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me that I should lose nothing of all that has been given me, but raise it up on the last day. This is indeed the will of my father that all who see the son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. Here ends the lesson.
Father Cody Turner:I believe in God, The Lord be with you. Let us I mustn't be upon our feet. Into thy ministers with righteousness. Give peace in our time, oh lord. Gracious father, whose blessed son, Jesus Christ, came down from heaven to be the true bread, which giveth life to the world.
Father Cody Turner:Evermore give us this bread that he may live in us and we in him who liveth and reigneth with thee in the holy spirit. One god now and forever. 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 Spirit. Spirit
Kit Jacobson:Holy just works to proceed.
Father Cody Turner:And Give unto the 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, 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:You may be seated. Welcome friends to church of the incarnation and to this service of Choral Evensong, especially if you are new to the church. We're delighted that you are here with us this evening. If you are new and would like to know more about our church, there's a gold topped card that you can fill out and drop in the offering plate as it passes by. We would be delighted to reach out to you this week and pray for you in the meantime.
Father Cody Turner:Just a few related to Holy Week. We do hope that you'll make plans to join us for the Truduum, the sacred three days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter vigil. If you do not have a place to worship, information about our service times can be found on the website. Please do look there and make plans to join us. We would be delighted to have you.
Father Cody Turner:In addition to that, in two weeks time we'll be at Palm Sunday and in lieu of Choral Evensong, we will be offering Handel's Messiah here in the church. Instead of at 5PM, it will take place at 4PM. You can reserve your tickets online through the church website. And finally, after the service this evening, there will be a special reception in the North X. Please do make plans to join us and share in a time of fellowship.
Father Cody Turner:Thanks again for praying with us this evening.
Father Cody Turner:Let us kneel to pray.
Father Cody Turner:Almighty God, father of all mercies, lead on unworthy servants to 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, 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 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 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. 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.
Father Cody Turner: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 grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy ghost be with us all evermore.