Choral Evensong - Church of the Incarnation

Kit Jacobson: 00:03

Welcome to choral evensong from church of the incarnation in Dallas, Texas. I invite you to tune in each week as we gather at today's end for a sacred time of prayer, music, and scripture, an invitation to pause and lift our hearts and minds in thanksgiving toward the creator of all truth and beauty. Rich Anglican choral tradition spans repertoire from ancient monastic chants to the soaring anthems of the Victorian era to masterpieces of the twentieth century. This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalm 34, Charles Villiard's Stanford service in c, and Percy Bock's o Lord God. We begin with an invocation of God's presence, asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise.

Kit Jacobson: 00:50

Please join us now as we begin together in prayer.

Father Cody Turner: 00:57

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father, which is in heaven. Hallelujah.

Father Cody Turner: 01:08

Oh lord open

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 08:09

A reading from the book of Genesis. Laban and Bethuel answered, the thing comes from the lord. We cannot speak to you anything bad or good. Look, Rebecca is before you. Take her and go and let her be the wife of your master's son as the lord has spoken.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 08:32

When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the lord and the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold and garments and gave them to Rebecca. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly or ments. Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they rose in the morning, he said, send me back to my master. Her brother and her mother said, let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 09:09

After that, she may go. But he said to them, do not delay me since the Lord has made my journey successful. Let me go that I may go to my master. They said, we will call the young woman and ask her. And they called Rebecca said to her, will you go with this man?

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 09:32

She said, I will. So they sent away their sister Rebecca and her nurse along with Abraham's servant and his men. And they blessed Rebecca and said to her, may you, our sister, become thousands of Myriads. May your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes. Then Rebecca and her maids rose up, mounted the camels, and followed the men.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 10:00

And the servant took Rebecca and went his way. Now Isaac had come from Beerlihairoi and was settled in the Negev. Isaac went out in the evening to walk in the field. And looking up, he saw camels coming. And Rebecca looked up and when she saw Isaac, she slipped quickly from the camel and said to the servant, who is the man over there walking in the field to meet us?

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 10:26

The servant said, it is my master. So she took her veil and covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent. He took Rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 10:46

So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Here endeth the lesson. A reading from the gospel according to Mark. People were bringing children to Jesus in order that he might touch them. And the disciples spoke sternly to them.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 16:31

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, let the children come to me. Do not stop them. For it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it. And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 16:56

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus said to him, why do you call me good? No one is good but god alone. You know the commandments. You shall not murder.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 17:18

You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. You shall not defraud. Honor your father and mother.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 17:29

He said to him, teacher, I have kept all these since my youth. Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said, you lack one thing. Go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving for he had many possessions.

Reader 1: Scott Cantrell: 18:00

Here ended the lesson.

Father Cody Turner: 24:36

Give peace in our time, us. O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed, given to thy servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey thy Lights in our darkness, we beseech thee, oh lord, and by thy great mercy, defend us from all perils and dangers of this night. For the love of thy only son, our savior, Jesus Christ.

Father Cody Turner: 27:00

Please be seated. A warm welcome to church of the incarnation and to the service of choral living and song. It's a delight to be able to pray and to worship with you this evening. If you are a guest or you're new to incarnation, there is a gold topped card in the pew rack in front of you. If you would take a moment to fill it out, drop it in the offering plate as it passes by in the next few moments.

Father Cody Turner: 27:21

We would be delighted to take note of your attendance with us here this evening. Following the service tonight there will be a reception just out the NorthX doors just right out this way in the back. A wonderful time to be able to share in some fellowship in addition to the prayer and worship that you have already engaged in. We are very quickly approaching the Lenten season in about ten days time. Ash Wednesday will be upon us.

Father Cody Turner: 27:47

Please do check our church website and join us to mark the beginning of the Holy Lent. Again, it's wonderful to be with you here this evening. Almighty god, father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty things for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for thine eschimoble love, in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory. And we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the holy ghost be all honor and glory, world without end.

Father Cody Turner: 32:00

Amen. Almighty god, who has given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee, and has promised that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests. Fulfill now, oh lord, oh lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come, life everlasting. Amen.

Father Cody Turner: 32:39

The Lord be with you.