Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Neal McGowan
• Modern Worship at The Table | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Neal McGowan (8 am) & The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (5 pm)
• The Door | 5:30 pm in the Church – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon
  

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship at the Table in the Church (11:15 am - with Announcements)
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Go Forth for the City: The Church Jesus Calls and Sends –  Sumners Hall
Discover Membership – The Parlor
Practicing Contemplative Prayer – Room 201
Faith, Hope, and Poetry – Room 210
Family Matters: Baby Steps – Room L18

Children's Sunday School – First Floor & Lower Level
Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation – Room 236
High School Small Groups – Various locations (also meets at 12:30 pm)

Happening Today

Local Mission Fair
As part of Go Time, our ongoing focus on mission, we will host a local mission fair in Sumners Hall from 9 am – 12 pm. There will be booths representing many of our community partners, with opportunities to learn about how to get involved in local mission! See a list of our community partners.

Youth Leaders Meeting
Any student in grades 6-12 is welcome to join us for a student leader meeting in the Youth Game Room at 5:30 pm. We will look at our schedule for next semester, and hear other updates about our youth programming.

Youth Game Night
Youth in grades 6-12 will meet for dinner in the Parlor at 6:30 pm. We will play water games, eat dinner, and hear a devotion. Invite your friends!

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

John 15:1-8

15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Musical Offering in the Church

“Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is an ancient chant of Eucharistic devotion based on words from Habakkuk 2:20, “Let all the earth keep silence before him,” and Zechariah 2:13, “Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.” The original was composed in Greek as a Cherubic Hymn for the Offertory of the Divine Liturgy of St James; it probably antedates the rest of the liturgy and goes back at least to AD 275, with local churches adopting arrangements in Syriac. In modern times, the Ralph Vaughan Williams arrangement of a translation from the Greek by Gerard Moultrie to the tune of “Picardy,” a French medieval folk melody, popularized the hymn among other Christian congregations.

Sir Edward Bairstow was a prominent and influential musician of the Anglican church throughout the first part of the 20th Century. After holding several posts in London churches, he became Master of Music at York Minster in 1913, a post he held until his death in 1946. As a composer, he wrote almost exclusively for the Church. Today at the 9am Offertory, we hear his anthem “Let all mortal flesh keep silence.” Though the tune “Picardy” would not have been the ancient Greek Orthodox chant originally sung in the original Liturgy of St James, Bairstow arranges the familiar folk melody in a manner that is evocative of the Orthodox church.

At the 11:15am service, the SJD Choristers and Preparatory Choir lead all the musical portions of the liturgy for their final singing Sunday morning of the season. They offer anthems by two contemporary British composers, John Rutter and Simon Lole. Rutter’s anthem “For the beauty of the earth,” sung at the Offertory, is one of his most popular anthems in which he sets the familiar text with an elegant, lyrical melody, supported by an accompaniment characterized by sparkling, running lines.