Music for 022110

FirstLight
Gathering Song
Bless the Lord, my soul

Opening Song
Seek ye first the kingdom of God

Confession
Lord, have mercy
Surely it is God who saves me

Offertory
Take my life

Doxology
We are an offering

Communion
Jesus Messiah

Closing Song
Refiner’s fire

11AM
Hymns
81, Lord who throughout these forty days (ST. FLAVIAN)
389, O Jesus, I have promised ((NYLAND)

Introit
Berthier, Bless the Lord, my soul

Confession
572, Lord, have mercy upon us, Merbecke
2030, Surely it is God who saves me, White

Doxology
All things come of thee O Lord

Music during Communion
Paul Halley, Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)
Aimee Sullivan, soprano saxophone
Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Miserere nobis
Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world, grant us your peace.

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Billy Strayhorn, Arr. Alec Wyton, adpt. MRB, Lotus
Offertory: Handel, Behold, the lamb of God (from Messiah)
Postlude: Buxtehude, Toccata in F-Sharp Minor

The six degrees of separation for the key music elements at 11AM: the jazz harmonies in the Halley anthem to the jazz harmonies in the Strayhorn piece, to the wonderful chord progressions in the second section of the Buxtehude toccata (Buxtehude being of the 17th-18th century time frame), to Handel of roughly the same broad era.