April 15, 2022 The Easter Triduum: Good Friday

The Easter Triduum (TRIH-djoo-um), the Great Three Days, begins on Maundy Thursday.  Lent has ended.  We begin the celebration of the Passover of the Lord from death to life.  During these Three Days Christians still reckon time according to the customs of the Jewish people.  On Maundy Thursday, a number of ancient rites are observed during the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper.  On Good Friday, we celebrate the second of the great liturgies of the Easter Triduum, the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord.  The worship and ceremonies of the Church on Good Friday are for many Christians the most powerful of the Church year.  The liturgy begins with the clergy prostrate before the altar and the people kneeling.  Following the Liturgy of the Word and the Passion Narrative from Saint John, the Church offers its prayers in a form used by the ancient Church, a form now used only on Good Friday.  Then at the Showing of the Cross we are invited to kneel or sit for a period of reflection and prayer while the choir sings the Reproaches.  Finally we receive Holy Communion from the Sacrament consecrated at the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper.  As much as possible, silence is observed before and after the liturgy.  The Great Vigil of Easter, celebrated on Saturday night, is the final part of a service which began on Maundy Thursday.  The service is from the red Book of Common Prayer 1979.  All hymns are taken from the blue Hymnal 1982.  All hymns are reprinted with permission under OneLicense.net A713125.

Our Celebrant and Preacher this Sunday is the Reverend Matthew Hoxsie Mead.


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Today’s Propers (Collect & Lections from Holy Scripture)

The Collect
Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The First Lesson

The Psalm

The Second Lesson

The Passion

The Passion is chanted by the Cantor and Choir.  the choral responses are adapted from a Latin setting by Tomas Luis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611)

The Easter Triduum concludes tomorrow night with the Easter Vigil at 7:30 p.m.


Parish Prayer List

Please note that names are listed alphabetically by last name of the person being prayed for (if it is known).  We do not list last names for privacy reasons. For pastoral emergencies call or text one of the clergy: While Father Matt is in the Holy Land, please call Deacon Chisara Alimole (914.338.5194), or call the parish office (914.738.5515).  If you have any updates (birthdays, prayers additions, etc., please let us know.) Please submit names you wish to be included by Tuesday morning, to Marie at: marie@christchurchpelham.org.

Our prayers are asked especially for: Marion, Mark, Marcia, Elizabeth, Zachary, Anne, Rosemarie, Ginny, Ralph, Douglas, Ethan, Barbara, Russell, Fran, Mary, Ralph, Ursla, Marcia, Scot, Sammy, Ted, James, Monica (in hospital), Rebecca, Janet, Jackie, Amina, Celine, Brayden, Alexia Grace, Alison, Nicole, Emma, Pelin, Hildy, Martin, Nate, Yen, Erica, Rosalina, Walter, Susan, Ariana, Danielle, The Salvatore family, Dean, Sue, Xandra, Sigi, Joyce, Julie, Scott, Robert, Sherry, Michelle, Rob, Drue, David, Rob, Chuck,  Bill, Sue, Lael, M&D, Sandy, Morris, and Katie.

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week and in the coming week Ed Cragin (April 11), David Dierking (April 13), Chris Ganpat (April 14), Mia Genovese (April 15), Kristine Valerio (April 16), Kari Black (April 17), Gus Ipsen (April 17), Kristin van OgTrop (April 17), Vanessa Dierking (April 18), and Tom Bricker (April 21).

We pray for those in our Armed Services especially: Joseph, Kevin, Jack, Leopold, Philip, Jake, Matthew, Robert, Philip-Jason, Nicholas, Sam, Helen, Mitchel, Alec, Jonah, Tia, Tyrese, and Terrence.

We pray that all elected and appointed officials may be led to wise decisions and right actions for the welfare and peace of the world, especially Joseph our President, and Kathy our Governor.

We pray for those who have died, (especially ______).  And we pray for those who have died from COVID-19.

Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord

And let light perpetual shine upon them.

May their souls and the souls of the departed, through the mercy of God,

rest in peace.  Amen


About the Music

Bob Chilcott (b. 1955) is one of the leading English composers of choral music working today and is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers. As a boy, Chilcott sang in the choir of King’s College Cambridge under the direction of the legendary David Willcocks and he remained with the choir throughout his university years. In 1985, he joined The King’s Singers, the a cappella men’s touring ensemble formed in 1968 by six singers from King’s College, and he sang as a tenor with that ensemble for 12 years. His award-winning arrangements for the King’s Singers led to his career as a choral composer, which began in earnest in 1997. Chilcott’s setting of John 3:16, God so loved the world, has become a favorite selection for our parish choir to sing.

Tómas Lúis de Victoria (c. 1548-1611), was the most famous Spanish composer of the sixteenth century. Born in Ávila, Victoria was educated as a choirboy in Ávila’s cathedral. He is known to have been an accomplished organist at a very early age and seems to have had considerable success as a singer, as well, because in 1565, he was appointed the Cantor for the German College in Rome, which had been founded and directed by St. Ignatius Loyala in 1552 and where Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the maestro di cappella (choirmaster). When Palestrina returned to his previous position as director of the Julian choir in the Vatican at the church of St. John Lateran, the Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Rome, Victoria was appointed choirmaster of the college.  In 1573, he was also appointed to serve as choirmaster and instructor in plainsong (Gregorian chant) for the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, which was at that time also under Jesuit control. In 1574, he was ordained a priest by the English-born Thomas Goldwell, Bishop of the St. Asaph diocese in Wales, who had rejected the English Reformation and was living, more or less, in exile in Rome. With Palestrina, who was most likely his teacher and mentor, Victoria is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Roman Catholic counter-Reformation. In 1584, Victoria was appointed priest and choirmaster to the monastery of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid, when his friend and patroness the dowager empress Maria entered that monastery’s cloistered life. He served as her chaplain.  The choral responses in today’s reading of the Passion Gospel are adapted from a Latin setting by Victoria.

The Reproaches for Good Friday, also known as the Improperia, are a devotional responsory developed by the ninth century Iberian hermit, hymnist, and later bishop, St. Prudentius, in his Pontificale. By the twelfth century, it was widely adopted throughout the Western Catholic world. An embellishment of the Greek Trisagion, it serves as an indictment for the ways sinners have rejected Christ’s redemption and asks, in the Savior’s voice, “what have I done to you and how have I offended you?”  The traditional Improperia and that set by Tómas Luis de Victoria alternate the Greek “Agios O Theos” with its Latin translation “Sanctus Deus.” We take the liberty of interpolating an English translation once in our repetition of this portion from the Trisagion and of singing the plainsong responses in English.

The Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) was one of the great cellists of the last century. His father, Carles Casals i Ribes was a parish organist and choirmaster and music teacher in the Catalonian village of El Vendrell and his mother, Pilar Defilló de Casals, was a musician born in Puerto Rico to Catalan immigrants who later returned to Spain, where she married Carles Casals. Casals received early musical instruction on piano, organ, violin and in composition from his father, and at the age of eleven purposed to dedicate himself to studying and performing on the cello, which he did in Barcelona at the Escola Municipal de Música. He went on to stipended study at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid on the recommendation of composer Isaac Albéniz, who was impressed by his prodigious talent. Having given his first public recital at the age of 14, Casals went on to early international success following a performance for Queen Victoria at the Crystal Palace in 1899. Primarily known as a cellist throughout his lifetime, Casals also composed a handful of pieces, including several motets, of which today’s ravishing setting of “O vos omnes” is the most cherished and often performed.

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April 14, 2022 The Easter Triduum: Maundy Thursday

The Easter Triduum (TRIH-djoo-um), the Great Three Days, begins on Maundy Thursday.  Lent has ended.  We begin the celebration of the Passover of the Lord from death to life.  During these Three Days Christians still reckon time according to the customs of the Jewish people.

On Maundy Thursday, a number of ancient rites are observed during the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper, including the washing of feet.  Bread and wine are consecrated for the ministration of Holy Communion, both for Maundy Thursday and for the Good Friday Liturgy. At the end of the service, the Eucharist is reposed at the Bolton Chapel, the high altar is washed with wine and water, the sanctuary is stripped of all ornament and furnishing, and the cross is veiled.  As much as possible, silence is observed after the liturgy.

 

Our Celebrant is the Reverend Matthew Hoxsie Mead, our preacher is the Reverend Deacon Chisara Alimole


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Today’s Propers (Collect & Lections from Holy Scripture)

The Collect
Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament
of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance
of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and
who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever Amen.

First Lesson
Exodus 12:1-14

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. [Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.] This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

The Psalm

Psalm 116: 1, 10-17

1          I love the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my supplication, *
because he has inclined his ear to me whenever I called upon him.

10        How shall I repay the Lord *
for all the good things he has done for me?

11        I will lift up the cup of salvation *
and call upon the Name of the Lord.

12        I will fulfill my vows to the Lord *
in the presence of all his people.

13        Precious in the sight of the Lord *
is the death of his servants.

14        O Lord, I am your servant; *
I am your servant and the child of your handmaid;
you have freed me from my bonds.

15        I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and call upon the Name of the Lord.

16        I will fulfill my vows to the Lord *
in the presence of all his people,

17        In the courts of the Lord’s house, *
in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.

The Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 11:23-26

I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

The Gospel
John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.” After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord–and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, `Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 


Parish Prayer List

Please note that names are listed alphabetically by last name of the person being prayed for (if it is known).  We do not list last names for privacy reasons. For pastoral emergencies call or text one of the clergy: While Father Matt is in the Holy Land, please call Deacon Chisara Alimole (914.338.5194), or call the parish office (914.738.5515).  If you have any updates (birthdays, prayers additions, etc., please let us know.) Please submit names you wish to be included by Tuesday morning, to Marie at: marie@christchurchpelham.org.

Our prayers are asked especially for: Marion, Mark, Marcia, Elizabeth, Zachary, Anne, Rosemarie, Ginny, Ralph, Douglas, Ethan, Barbara, Russell, Fran, Mary, Ralph, Ursla, Marcia, Scot, Sammy, Ted, James, Monica (in hospital), Rebecca, Janet, Jackie, Amina, Celine, Brayden, Alexia Grace, Alison, Nicole, Emma, Pelin, Hildy, Martin, Nate, Yen, Erica, Rosalina, Walter, Susan, Ariana, Danielle, The Salvatore family, Dean, Sue, Xandra, Sigi, Joyce, Julie, Scott, Robert, Sherry, Michelle, Rob, Drue, David, Rob, Chuck,  Bill, Sue, Lael, M&D, Sandy, Morris, and Katie.

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week and in the coming week Ed Cragin (April 11), David Dierking (April 13), Chris Ganpat (April 14), Mia Genovese (April 15), Kristine Valerio (April 16), Kari Black (April 17), Gus Ipsen (April 17), Kristin van OgTrop (April 17), Vanessa Dierking (April 18), and Tom Bricker (April 21).

We pray for those in our Armed Services especially: Joseph, Kevin, Jack, Leopold, Philip, Jake, Matthew, Robert, Philip-Jason, Nicholas, Sam, Helen, Mitchel, Alec, Jonah, Tia, Tyrese, and Terrence.

We pray that all elected and appointed officials may be led to wise decisions and right actions for the welfare and peace of the world, especially Joseph our President, and Kathy our Governor.

We pray for those who have died, (especially ______).  And we pray for those who have died from COVID-19.

Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord

And let light perpetual shine upon them.

May their souls and the souls of the departed, through the mercy of God,

rest in peace.  Amen


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