James Tissot, The Pharisees Question Jesus, Brooklyn Museum, 1884-96
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him [NRSV, Matt 22:34-5].
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs
Prelude: Wir glauben all [Dirksen: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Mass Setting: Missa Sine Nomine [listen] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94)
Introit: Alma Redemptoris Mater [text/Gardiner: musicMe] (info) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Motet: Sicut Cervus [text/listen], Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Postlude: Dorian Toccata [Antinori: YouTube], Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Toccata noni toni [Woolley: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Introit: Sleepers wake [text], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Preces and Responses: Festal, Thomas Tallis (1505-85)
Psalm: 36 (Barnby, Battishill)
Canticles: Short Service [Dixon: NML] (info), Thomas Tallis
Anthem: Jesu, joy of our desiring [Messiah: text/CML] (info), Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude: Psalm 36 [Suzuki: NML] (info), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck