THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST JULY 23, 2017 FIVE O CLOCK IN THE EVENING

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1 EVENSONG THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST JULY 23, 2017 FIVE O CLOCK IN THE EVENING SUNG BY: THE CHOIR OF SELWYN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE CONDUCTOR: SARAH MACDONALD ORGAN: SHANNA HART OFFICIANT: THE REV. CANON JEFF MARTINHAUK LECTOR: IRVING ALAN SPARKS A description of the office of Evensong with the complete format may be found on the pew cards

2 This service is being streamed live and if you don t wish to be seen on camera, please ask an usher for appropriate seating. Services are regularly streamed and recorded and you can find them: ORGAN VOLUNTARY Sonata I, ii. Pastorale, Andante quasi Allegretto Félix-Alexandre Guilmant ( ) INTROIT Beati quorum via C. V. Stanford ( ) Beati quorum via integra est, Qui ambulant in lege Domini. Happy are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! [Psalm 119 vs. 1] Please stand as you are able at the tolling of the bell. OPENING SENTENCE PRECES Philip Radcliffe ( ) OFFICE HYMN 46

3 Please be seated. Words: Paul Gerhardt ( ); tr. Robert Seymour Bridges ( ) and others Music: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, melody att. Heinrich Isaac (1450?-1517); harm. Johann Sebastian Bach ( ) PSALM 103 Benedic, anima mea chant: George Thalben-Ball ( ) FIRST READING 1 SAMUEL 23:7-18 Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars. Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to the priest Abiathar, Bring the ephod here. David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account. And now, will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord, the God of Israel, I beseech you, tell your servant. The Lord said, He will come down. Then David said, Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul? The Lord said, They will surrender you. Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they wandered wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition. David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him

4 into his hand. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph at Horesh when he learned that Saul had come out to seek his life. Saul s son Jonathan set out and came to David at Horesh; there he strengthened his hand through the Lord. He said to him, Do not be afraid; for the hand of my father Saul shall not find you; you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be second to you; my father Saul also knows that this is so. Then the two of them made a covenant before the Lord; David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home. Please stand as you are able. MAGNIFICAT Gloucester Service Herbert Howells ( ) Please be seated. SECOND READING MATTHEW 25:14-30 Jesus said, For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master s money. After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents. His master said to him, Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master. And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents. His master said to him, Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master. Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours. But his master replied, You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents. For to all those who

5 have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Please stand as you are able. NUNC DIMITTIS Gloucester Service Howells THE APOSTLES CREED THE LESSER LITANY Barnard THE LORD S PRAYER SUFFRAGES THE COLLECTS THE COLLECT FOR THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST: PROPER 11 ALMIGHTY GOD, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion, we beseech thee, upon our infirmities, and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, mercifully give us for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. THE COLLECT FOR PEACE 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 all enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. THE COLLECT FOR MISSION KEEP WATCH, DEAR LORD, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give thine angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for thy love s sake. Amen.

6 Offerings at Evensong directly support ministries at the Cathedral Please be seated for the anthem. AT THE OFFERING, anthem Faire is the heaven Sir William Henry Harris ( ) Faire is the heaven where happy soules have place, in full enjoyment of felicitie, Whence they doe still behold the glorious face of the Divine Eternall Majestie. Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins, Which all with golden wings are overdight, And those eternall burning Seraphins Which from their faces dart out fierie light; Yet fairer than they both, and much more bright, Be the Angels and Archangels, which attend On God's owne person, without rest or end. These then in faire each other farre excelling, As to the Highest they approach more neare, Yet is that Highest farre beyond all telling; Fairer than all the rest which there appeare, Though all their beauties joyned together were: How then can mortall tongue hope to expresse The image of such endless perfectnesse? [text by Edmund Spenser ( )] CLOSING PRAYERS The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. DISMISSAL

7 HYMN 423 Words: Walter Chalmers Smith ( ), alt. Music: St. Denio, Welsh hymn, from Caniadau y Cyssegr, 1839; adapt. John Roberts ( ); harm. The English Hymnal, 1906, alt.

8 ORGAN VOLUNTARY - Symphony VI, i. Allegro Charles-Marie Widor ( ) The Very Rev. Penny Bridges, Dean The Rev. Canon Brooks Mason, Canon Liturgist Canon Martin Green, Organist & Director of Music Gabriel Arregui, Sub-Organist & Assistant Choirmaster Lucinda Parsons, Usher in Charge Elaine Graybill, Harold Potter, Ushers In the unlikely event of an emergency requiring us to evacuate the cathedral please follow the directions of the ushers and vergers, and remain as quiet and calm as possible. The exit doors are: -South porch doors at Nutmeg Street and Fifth Avenue -North porch doors to Fifth Avenue Courtyard -South transept (at organ console) east and west doors to Nutmeg Street -Northeast hallway door to Sixth Avenue courtyard -West chapel (to the left of chapel altar) stairs leading down to landing to Sixth Avenue parking lot. Please locate two exits nearest you.