The Par i s h o f Our Sav i o ur

Sa i n t St eph e n a n d Our Lad y o f t h e Scap u l a r

and the Chapel of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

I N T H E C I T Y O F N E W Y O R K

The Reverend Robert J. Robbins, K.C.H.S., Pastor The Reverend Andrew E. Kurzyna, Parochial Vicar

The Reverend Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, In Residence The Reverend Monsignor Hilary C. Franco, Honorary Associate

Paul J. Murray, K.C.H.S., Director of Music and Organist

SI XT H SU N D AY OF EAST ER 6 May 2018 – Choral Mass at 11 o ’clock

ORGAN VOLUNTARY Sonata No. 2, Op. 87a Edward Elgar I. Introduction (1857–1934)

I N T R O D U C T O R Y R I T E S INTROIT cf. Isaiah 48:20

Vocem iucunditatis annuntiate, et audiatur, annuntiate usque ad extremum terræ: liberavit Dominus populum suum, alleluia.

Proclaim a joyful sound and let it be heard; proclaim to the ends of the earth: The Lord has freed his people, alleluia.

HYMN

SIGN OF THE CROSS

GREETING

RITE FOR THE BLESSING AND SPRINKLING OF WATER CHOIR Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)

Vidi aquam egredientem de templo, a latere dextro, et omnes, ad quos pervenit aqua ista, salvi facti sunt et dicent: alleluia.

I saw water flowing from the Temple, from its right-hand side, and all to whom this water came were saved and shall say: alleluia.

GLORIA Missa Tertia Hans Leo Haßler (c.1564–1612)

COLLECT

L I T U R G Y O F T H E W O R D FIRST READING Acts 10:25–26, 34–35, 44–48

The Holy Spirit has been poured out on the pagans too.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 98(97):1a, 2, 3b, 4–9 Graduale Simplex

SECOND READING 1 John 4:7–10 God is love.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION William Henry Monk (1823–1889)

GOSPEL READING John 15:9–17 A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

HOMILY The Pastor

CREDO Old Scottish Chant

UNIVERSAL PRAYER

L I T U R G Y O F T H E E U C H A R I S T OFFERTORY Greater love hath no man John Ireland (1886–1972)

Many waters cannot quench Love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench Love.

Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Who His own Self bare our sins in His own Body on the tree,

that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus;

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, That ye should shew forth the praises of Him

Who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies, a living sacrifice,

holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

PREFACE RESPONSES

SANCTUS Mass to Honor St. Cecilia Hermann Schroeder (1904–1984)

MYSTERY OF FAITH Chant

AMEN Dresden

C O M M U N I O N R I T E THE LORD’S PRAYER

SIGN OF PEACE

AGNUS DEI Theodore Marier (1912–2001)

COMMUNION John 15:16

Ego vos elegi de mundo, ut eatis, et fructum afferatis, et fructus vester maneat, alleluia.

I have chosen you from the world, in order that you might go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should last, alleluia.

AGNUS DEI Missa Tertia Hans Leo Haßler

CHOIR Everett Titcomb (1884–1968)

I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you yet again: alleluia; and your heart shall be joyful, alleluia.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

C O N C L U D I N G R I T E BLESSING AND DISMISSAL

HYMN

ORGAN VOLUNTARY Tuba Tune in D Craig Sellar Lang (1891–1971)

MUSIC NOTES The English composer John Ireland studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Charles Villiers Stanford. He later taught at the College, where the prolific composer, Benjamin Britten, was one of his pupils. An accomplished organist, Ireland held several notable church positions. Considered an “English impressionist,” Ireland’s music is influenced by the music of Debussy, Ravel, and the early works of Stravinsky and Bartók. He wrote many small-scale works including chamber music and piano pieces. He wrote a number of hymns and sacred anthems. The anthem sung today, Greater love hath no man, is one of his most popular works, having been sung in churches throughout the world. Everett Titcomb served for fifty years as organist and choirmaster of the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, an Episcopal parish in the Anglo-Catholic tradition which was on Beacon Hill in Boston. (The church closed its doors a few years ago.) He also served as professor of church music at the New England Conservatory of Music and Boston University. Titcomb wrote a number of works for organ and choir. I will not leave you comfortless, an Eastertide anthem written in a polyphonic style, was composed in 1934 and gave Titcomb international renown when the work was performed by a choir of 4,000 in London at the English Church Music Festival in 1936.