5 January 2003
2nd Sunday after Christmas
Eve of the Epiphany
ORISON: "O come, ye servants of the Lord" (Christopher Tye [ca. 1505 - ?1572])
PSALM: 72 (plainsong)
HYMN: "How bright appears the morning star" (Philipp Nicolai [1556-1608], harmonized by J. S. Bach [1685 - 1750])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Morley)
ANTHEMS: 1) "Ecce venimus, adorare" (Giovanni Gabrieli [ca. 1554/57 - 1612])
2) "Videntes stellam magi" (Claude Goudimel [ca. 1514 - 1572])
12 January 2003
1st Sunday after Epiphany
ORISON: "Come, thou Holy Spirit, come" (Searle Wright)
PSALM: 29 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Christ, when for us you were baptized" (The Psalmes of David in Prose and Meeter [1635])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting)
ANTHEM: The Baptism of Christ (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
19 January 2003
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Martin Luther King, Jr.
ORISON: "The eternal gifts of Christ the King" (Æterna Christi munera, plainsong)
PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult" (Southern Harmony [1835])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by William Byrd)
ANTHEM: "Holy is the true light" (Sir William H. Harris [1883 - 1972])
26 January 2003
3rd Sunday after Epiphany
ORISON: "I heard the voice of Jesus say" (tune: Third Mode Melody, from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter, Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585])
PSALM: 33: 12 - 22 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Eternal Light, shine in my heart" (Samuel Scheidt [1587 - 1654])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (anonymous 16th century setting, Tone IV)
ANTHEM: "Ecce advenit" (William Byrd [ca. 1540 - 1623])