Procession and Solemn High Mass for Easter Day

Complete service of Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015.

1. Organ Prelude: Sarabande for the Morning of Easter, Herbet Howells

2. Processional Hymn 624: "Hail thee, Festival Day!" (Salve Festa Dies)

3. Introit

4. Collect

5. Kyrie, Missa Brevis in F major, Harold Darke (1888-1976)

6. Gloria, Missa de Angelis

7. Prayer

8. First lesson: Acts 10: 34-43

9. Psalm 118

10. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11

11. Gradual Hymn: 133 "Jesus Christ is risen today" (Easter Hymn)

12. Gradual Proper and Tract

13. Holy Gospel: John 20: 1-18

14. Sermon (Fr. James Beall)

15. Creed, Prayers, Confession and Absolution

16. Offertory Motet: Surrexit Christus hodie -- Samuel Scheidt (1587-1653)

17. Offertory Proper

18. Offertory Hymn 319: "Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Spledour" (St. Helen)

19. Prayer over the Gifts

20. Sanctus, Benedictus, Missa Brevis in F major, Harold Darke

21. Eucharistic Prayer

22. Agnus Dei, Missa Brevis in F major, Harold Darke

23. Behold the Body and Blood of Christ

24. Communion Proper

25. Music at Communion: Rise up, my love, my fair one, Healey Willan (1880-1968)

26. Ablutions Motet: This Joyful Eastertide, Dutch Carol, arr. W.H. Harris

27. Prayer after Communion

28. Post Communion Hymn 134 "Jesus lives! Thy terrors now (St. Albinus)

29. Regina Coeli

30. Organ Postlude: Toccata (Symphonie No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42), Charles-Marie Widor