The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on Pentecost Last, November 24, 2024, 11 a.m., Calvary Episcopal Church

The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on the Last Sunday after Pentecost – The Feast of Christ the King, November 24, 2024 at 11 a.m., Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Reverend Cameron J. Soulis, Senior Associate Rector, was the Preacher. Assisting: the Reverend Jonathon W. Jensen, Rector, the Reverend Bonnie-Marie Yager-Wiggan, Associate Rector, the Reverend Deanna J. Briody, Curate, the Reverend Geoffrey S. Royce, Deacon, Alan Lewis, Director of Music, Jon Tyillian, Assistant Organist. Musical Notes: The Voluntaries and Offertory Anthem this morning are the work of the Irish Anglican composer Charles Wood (1866-1926), born in Armagh, and trained under Stanford and Parry at the new Royal College of Music in London. He succeeded Stanford as Professor of Music at Cambridge University. Wood’s pieces heard this morning reflect his interest in historical psalm-tune melodies from the Reformed tradition, a powerful influence on Anglican music. The Calvinist movement was quite strict in limiting texts to be sung in its services to those of scriptural origin and authority. This led to the widespread use of poetic paraphrases of the psalms, in particular, since psalms from their origin were fairly clearly intended for singing, and could be rendered more or less faithfully in metrical poetry. This sort of paraphrase translation permitted the use of repeating melodies for successive stanzas of the texts, which were often quite lengthy. The Genevan Psalter, first published with only a few preliminary entries in 1539, was completed in 1562, with all 150 psalms versified into over 100 different meters, with corresponding tunes. (The Offertory Anthem is based upon a sixteenth-century melody from this tradition; the text, by an early twentieth-century poet, carries forward the tradition of psalm-paraphrase, in its rendering of today’s psalm in English verse.) As Calvinism spread into Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, vernacular translations of the psalms spread there, as well, with a complete Scottish psalm-book appearing in 1615. The tunes on which today’s Prelude and Postlude come stem from Scottish sources. (Of these four, the York and Southwell tunes are included as nos. 462 and 641 of The Hymnal 1982, and Old 113th as no. 429.) Visit our website at http://www.calvarypgh.org Download the bulletin for this service at https://www.calvarypgh.org/bulletins-... Visit our YouTube page where you will find an archive of our services, sermons, and classes at    / @calvaryepiscopalchurchpitt207