Solemn High Mass for the Easter Vigil

Music:

• Exsultet
• I.  The Great Flood:  Genesis 7-9 passim
• Psalm 46: 1-10  Deus noster refugium
• II.  Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea:  Exodus 14: 10 – 15: 1 [RSV]
• Canticle 8, The Song of Moses
• III.  A new heart and a new spirit:  Ezekiel 36: 24-28 [RSV]
• Psalm 42: 1-7  Quemadmodum
• Motet:  Sicut cervus (choir) ~ G. P. da Palestrina (d. 1594)
• The Litany of the Saints
• Gloria in excelsis, from Grace Mass ~ Edward Wagner, 1987
• The Great Alleluia 
• Psalm 114 ~ Tonus Peregrinus
• Offertory (choir) ~ Dextera Domini ~ Mode 2
• Hymn 202 ~ “The Lamb’s high banquet” ~ Ad cenam Agni providi
• Sanctus and Benedictus, from Grace Mass ~ E. Wagner
• Communion (choir) ~ Pascha nostrum ~ Mode 6
• Anthem (choir) ~ The Call ~ Alexander Brent Smith, 1925
• Hymn 199 ~ “Come, ye faithful, raise the strain” ~ St. Kevin
• Voluntary:  Grand Choeur Dialogue ~ Eugène Gigout (d. 1925)

Preacher: The Rev. Rowena J. Kemp, Rector