Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord
Mass at 6.30 | Reception following
 
Mass & Mammon
May 7, 2017

Morning Prayer: 3
7:30 Low Mass: 43
9:00 Low Mass: 167
11:00 Sung Mass: 68
Mass Total: 278
Average Sunday attendance to date: 328

Offering: n/a at the time of publication

Altar Flowers and Shrine Lamps

The Altar Flowers are given to the Glory of Almighty God.

The Our Lady of Walsingham Lamp is given to the Glory of God and in honor of the wedding of Catherine A. King & Jonathan D. Williams
by Jonathan Williams.
 
The Sanctuary Lamp is given to the Glory of God and in honor of the birthdays of George Pratt and Beck Machado by Kristen Machado.
 
The St. Timothy Shrine Lamp is given to the Glory of God and in thanksgiving for the mothers who carry their children to full term and allow others to raise them by Beth Morphis.
 
The St. Michael the Archangel Lamp is given to the Glory of God an in honor of my son, Wynn Matthews by Mary Matthews.

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O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting.  Amen.
From the Choir Loft
Sunday’s  anthem is “Cast thy burden upon the Lord” from Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio  Elijah . The work premiered in 1846 at the Birmingham Festival, and it depicts events in the life of the prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings. Here is Robert Cottrill’s explination for the context for today’s anthem: 

“In Elijah’s day, Israel was ruled by the idolatrous King Ahab and his wife Jezebel. The latter, in particular, was responsible for leading the nation into Baal worship. Elijah’s confrontation on Mount Carmel with four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal is one of the most dramatic scenes in all of Scripture (1 Kings. 18:17-40), and Mendelssohn’s surpassing skill as a composer gives it an effective musical setting of exhilarating power.

Elijah’s appeal to the Lord on that occasion is taken right from the passage: “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word” (1 Kings.  18:36 ). According to inspired Scripture, Elijah spoke those words. But what comes next is not from the passage itself. As though to encourage Elijah, who stood alone in the conflict, a quartet of voices, representing angels, sings the quietly beautiful song "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord," based on Psalm 55:22 and Psalm 16:8.”

Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
And He shall sustain thee.
He never will suffer the righteous to fall;
He is at thy right hand.
Thy mercy, Lord, is great and far above the heav’ns;
Let none be made ashamed that wait upon Thee.


Hymns:
All praise to thee, for thou, O King divine, No. 477
When Christ was lifted from the earth, No. 603
Fairest Lord Jesus, No. 383
If thou but trust in God to guide thee, No. 635
All hail the power of Jesus' Name!, No. 451
Christ is alive!, No. 182

Marya Fancey will lead our liturgies from the organ bench. Marya has twenty years of experience as a substitute organist in a variety of churches and has led multiple workshop sessions on “The Hesitant Hymn Singer.” As a soloist, she has presented a variety of organ repertoire and seeks to include composers from under-represented populations. In one of her concerts “Sacred Themes in the Orgelbüchlein,” she alternated J.S. Bach’s chorale settings with readings, responsorial psalms and hymns—the audience sang along on the responses and hymns.

See you  Sunday ,
Christin