2 February 2003
4th Sunday after Epiphany
Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple
and in special remembrance of the Columbia astronauts
ORISON: "Slowly the rays of daylight fade" (Searle Wright)
PSALM: 23 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Round me falls the night" (melody by A. Drese, [d. 1701], harmonizations by S. S. Wesley, Henry Ley, J. S. Bach)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625])
ANTHEM: two selections from the Requiem Mass by Orlandus Lassus [ca. 1530/32 – 1594]
9 February 2003
5th Sunday after Epiphany
ORISON: "Phos Hilaron (O gracious Light)" (Kevin Siegfried)
PSALM: 46 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "O Jesus, joy of loving hearts" (tune: Dickinson College, Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. [1924 - 1979]
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Dana Marsh)
ANTHEM: "Ubi caritas" (polyphonic setting of the chant by Maurice Duruflé [1902 - 1986])
16 February 2003
6th Sunday after Epiphany
ORISON: "God that madest earth and heaven" (Ar hyd y nos, Welsh tune)
PSALM: 42 (plainsong)
HYMN: "As longs the deer for cooling streams" (tune: Martyrdom, melody & bass - Hugh Wilson [1764 - 1824], arr. Robert Smith [1780 - 1829])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting)
ANTHEMS: "Sicut cervus" (settings by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594] and Charles Gounod [1866 - 1926])
23 February 2003
7th Sunday after Epiphany
ORISON: "Be present, O merciful God" (Roupen Shakarian)
PSALM: 40 (plainsong)
HYMN: "Jerusalem, my happy home" (tune: Land of Rest, arranged by Richard Proulx)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes [d. 1629])
ANTHEM: "There is a balm in Gilead" (arr. Jeff Junkinsmith, 2003 [b. 1956])