#easter iii

General:

An announcement shall be made Sunday next w/r/t rescheduling the CLGB matches. The food bank continues to appeal for tinned goods. The accounts of the Winter Fuel Charity remain open for inspection to 15 May. Minutes of the APCM for the combined benefice are to be included in the next issue of the parish mag. Remember in prayer the faithful departed. There is none who is ill in the three parishes this week: give thanks to God for his mercy. Prayers and special intentions this week for the Diocese of El Obeid, and for S Peter Devizes. You are also adverted to the Ebbsfleet Daily Prayer Cycle. Mattins and Evening Prayer this week are chanted not choral.

S Margaret:

There is one Feast in the coming week:

S John ante Portam Latinam, Tuesday, 6 May.

The Daily Lectionary is as follows:

Sunday: Mattins, 1st, Isaiah lv; 2nd, 1st Cor. xv. 35; Evensong, 1st, Isaiah lvi. 1 – 8; 2nd, Phil. Iii. 7.

Monday: Mattins, 1st, Deut. viii; 2nd, Acts viii. 26; Evensong, 1st, Deut. ix. 1 – 10; 2nd, Acts ix. 1 – 31.

Tuesday: Mattins, 1st, Deut. ix. 11; 2nd, Acts ix. 32; Evensong, 1st, Deut. x; 2nd, Acts x. 1 – 23.

Wednesday: Mattins, 1st, Deut. xi. 1 – 12; 2nd, Acts x. 24; Evensong, 1st, Deut. xi. 13; 2nd, Acts xi. 1 – 18.

Thursday: Mattins, 1st, Deut. xii. 1 – 14; 2nd, Acts xi. 19; Evensong, 1st, Deut. xv. 1 – 18; 2nd, Acts vii. 1 – 24.

Friday: Mattins, 1st, Deut. xvi. 1 – 20; 2nd, Acts xii. 25 – xiii. 12; Evensong, 1st, Deut. xvii. 8; 2nd, Acts xiii. 13 – 43.

Note: The choirs are on a reduced schedule and workload after the exertions of Easter.

Hymns, all three parishes:

‘Now the green blade riseth’, Jno Macleod Campbell Crum, to ‘Noel Nouvelet’, trad. Fr. ‘All my hope on God is founded’, Joachim Neander, paraphr. Robt Bridges, to ‘Michael’ ‘Come, ye faithful, raise the strain’, S John Damascene, transl. Jno Mason Neale, to ‘S Kevin’, Sir Arthur Sullivan ‘O for a thousand tongues to sing’, Chas Wesley, to ‘Richmond’, Thos Haweis ‘Alleluia! Sing to Jesus’, Wm Chatterton Dix, to ‘Hyfrydol’, R H Prichard

S Aldhelm:

BWV 628 Anthem: ‘Lord, thou hast been our refuge’, RVW

S Margaret:

BWV 626 Anthem: ‘The Call’, RVW

SS Mary & Leonard:

A Bach Cantata for the Third Sunday after Easter

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Cantata BWV 12:  Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (22 April 1714) 1. Sinfonia in F major 2. Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Chorus) 02:18 3. Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal (Recitative: A) 08:40 4. Kreuz und Kronen sind verbunden (Aria: A) 09:24 5. Ich folge Christo nach (Aria: B) 15:57 6. Sei getreu, alle Pein (Aria: T) 18:05 7. Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (Chorale) 22:19 Soloists: Soprano: Susanne Rydén Countertenor: Steven Rickards Tenor: John Elwes Bass: Michael Schapper Performed by Joshua Rifkin and The Bach Ensemble. Recorded by Dorian in 1995-96. "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Fearing) (BWV 12) was written for the Sunday Jubilate, the third Sunday after Easter, which was the 22nd April 1714. This was the second cantata Bach wrote after his appointment as music director to the Court of Weimar.