Sunday, July 1, 2012

Pentecost V / Canada Day - July 1, 2012

  • Organ Preludes: 
    • Elegie – Henri Gagnon 
 
    • Meditation Op. 6 – Joseph-Arthur Bernier 


  • Opening Hymn 394 “Eternal, unchanging” (St. Basil)

    • Words: Robert Balgarnie Young Scott (1899 - 1987)
 
    • Music: James Healey_Willan (1880 – 1968) 
  • National Anthem: 659 “O Canada” 
English 
    • Words: Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) and others

    • Music: Calixa Lavallee (1842-1891)


  • Offertory Hymn 532 “What a friend we have in Jesus” (Friendship)

    • Words: Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819 - 1886)

    • Music: Charles Crozat Converse (1832 - 1918) 
  • Organ Music During Communion: Petits Morceaux – Romain-Octave Pelletier
  • Final Hymn 572 “Let there be light” (Concord) 

    • Words: Frances Wheeler Davis (b1936)

    • Music: Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 – 1976)


  • Organ Postlude: Finale (from `Petit Suite`) – Gerald Bales 
  • Notes: In observance of Canada Day, all words and music (with one exception) of today’s hymns were written by Canadians, as well as all the organ music. The one exception is the music to `What a friend we have in Jesus` which was composed by American Charles Converse.

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