September 14, 2008


Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Brazen Serpent, Cappella Sistina, 1511

So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live(NRSV, Numbers 21:9).


The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Holy Cross Day [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Vexilla regis,
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) [BNQ]

Introit: Crux fidelis (
listen), John of Portugal (1603-56)

Mass Setting: Missa "Sine nomine,"
Lodovico Viadana (1560-1627)

Motet: Crux fidelis,
Jacob Clement (1510-56)

Postlude: Vexilla regis,
Healey Willan (1880-1968) [BNQ]


4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Vexilla regis,
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) [BNQ]

Introit: The Almond Tree (
text), Alan Ridout (1934-96) [BNQ]

Preces and Responses:
Martin Neary (b. 1940) [BNQ]

Psalm: 118 (Thalben-Ball)

Canticles: Canterbury Cathedral, Alan Ridout

Anthem: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (
text & listen), Elizabeth Poston (1905-87)

Postlude: Vexilla regis,
Flor Peeters (1903-1986) [BNQ]