Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: April 25, 2021

OPENING VOLUNTARY Joyous Spirit

Valerie Stephenson 
St. Mark's Ringers

Some of our ringers at Lutheridge Handbell Weekend
pre-pandemic

GATHERING HYMN I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Duke Street)
ELW 619

PSALM The King of Love My Shepherd Is (St. Columba) ELW 502

A metrical setting of the 23rd psalm.

HYMN OF THE DAY Lord, Who the Night You Were Betrayed (Song 1)

ELW 463

MUSICAL OFFERING Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Roland E. Martin

Festival Choir

Festival Choir 2017

MUSIC DURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNION

Thee We Adore, O Blessed Savior (Adoro te devote)
setting, Healey Willan

SENDING HYMN When in Our Music God Is Glorified (Engelberg) 

ELW 851

CLOSING VOLUNTARY Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices
(O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte)

setting, Jeffrey Blersch

Today's service concludes with the Recognition of Music Ministers in the Church.

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter: April 11, 2021

 

OPENING VOLUNTARY Toccata in A Minor 

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

GATHERING HYMN Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain (Gaudeamus pariter)

ELW 363

PSALM 133 Miren qué bueno 

ELW 649
The refrain is sung in Spanish and the stanzas in English.

HYMN OF THE DAY Show Me Your Hands, Your Feet, Your Side 

(Twenty-fourth)

This hymn comes from outside of ELW. The text by Sylvia Dunstan (1955-1993) is sung to familiar American tune.

MUSIC DURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNION
Three Alleluias (based on Plainchant melodies) 
Charles Callahan (b.1951)

SENDING HYMN That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright (Puer nobis)
ELW 384

CLOSING VOLUNTARY Fugue in C Major (Jig Fugue)

Dietrich Buxtehude (ca. 1639 - 1707)