- Organ: Prelude on “Tallis’ Canon” – Sir Charles Stanford
- Opening Hymn 521 “Dear Shepherd of your people, hear” (Winchester Old #136)
- Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
- Psalm 23 (metrical paraphrase): Hymn 520 “The King of love my shepherd is” (Dominus regit me)
- Gospel Alleluia
Choir: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
Choir: I am the good shepherd, says the Lord: I know my own sheep and my own know me. All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
- Offertory Hymn 40 “O spirit of the living God” (Wareham)
- Communion ( Tallis’ Canon) Words by George Herbert (from ‘The Temple’ 1633) Music by Thomas Tallis (Tallis’ Canon)
- Concluding Hymn 224 “Awake, arise, lift up your voice” (Richmond)
- Organ: Voluntary in C – William Croft (1678-1727)
Music Notes:
George Herbert (1593–1633) was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest who is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skillful and important British devotional lyricist." While you might not recognize his name, you will know several of Herbert’s poems that we still use as hymns, including “Let all the world in every corner sing”, “King of glory, King of peace” and “Teach me, my God and King”. In 1633 all of Herbert's English poems were published in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, which, over the next 60 years, was reprinted eight times. “The God of love my shepherd is” (today’s communion hymn) is included in The Temple and is, obviously, a poetic paraphrase of Psalm 23.
The organ prelude by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) is based on Thomas Tallis’ tune of this morning’s communion hymn.
William Croft (1678-1727) is best known now as the composer of the hymn tune we use for “O God, our help in ages past” and for his setting of the Burial Sentences, heard at funerals royal and otherwise (including the late Jim Flaherty at St. James’ Cathedral). Between 1708 and 1727 Croft was organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey.
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