The First Sunday of Advent

The First Sunday of Advent

Prelude Savior Of The Nations Come | Johann Sebastian Bach What Hope! An Eden Prophesied What hope! An Eden prophesied where tame live with the wild;The lamb and lion side by side, led by a little child!A shoot will sprout from Jesse’s stem, a branch from David’s...
Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day

Prelude My Country, ‘Tis Of TheeThis Is My Father’s WorldCome, Ye Thankful People, ComeWe Gather Together To Ask The Lord’s Blessing My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every...
Christ the King

Christ the King

Prelude Rejoice Greatly, O My Soul | Sigfried Karg-Elert Nearer, My God, To Thee Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me;Still all my song would be, nearer, my God, to thee,Nearer, my God to thee, nearer to thee. Entrance...
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude Ave Maria | Bach-Gounod Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind | Charles Parry Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways!Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find,In deeper reverence, praise. Entrance Procession Thine Arm, O...
The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude Largo | Georg Frideric Händel Abide With Me  | Johann Sebastian Bach Abide with me,Then will I fear not the journey to that far-off landWhere sorrows cease and all is peace.What sweet content to have thee near me Where I may clasp thine hand so gentleAnd...
Stewardship 2021

Stewardship 2021

Friends in Christ, As we round the corner into the fall season of this mad year, I have found myself repeating a new phrase, The show must go on!  A favorite recent example at St. Michael’s by-the-Sea of this creative persistence (and there are many) is the...