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Preludes – Ralph Hooper, Music Director and Organ
Intonation and Carillon on Ave Maria based on Traditional Chant
Voluntary in G Major by William Boyce
Introit – The SPC Choir
Ave Maria by David Conte
The Marian prayer Ave Maria was included in the official liturgy of the church in the 6th century. It incorporates two greetings to Mary from the Gospel of Luke. The date of the original chant melody is not clear; however, by the 13th century composers were creating vocal settings and adding petitions as a second part. David Conte is Professor of Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and one of the Bay Area’s premier composers. This beautiful and dramatic rendering opens today’s service.
Welcome & Passing of the Peace - Pastor Paul
Call to Celebration - Elder Julie Carlson
Hymn # 239 – Good Christians All, Rejoice and Sing!
The Lord of life is risen today!
death’s mighty stone is rolled away.
Let all the earth rejoice and say:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise we in songs of victory
that love, that life which cannot die,
and sing with hearts uplifted high:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Writing of Our Prayers
Send your prayers in the chat room. Prayers will be prayed by the Prayer Group.
Readings – Elder Julie Carlson
Proverbs 8:22-31 (NRSV)
‘The LORD created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth—
when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world's first bits of soil.
When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.
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