GLORY TO GODFestival of Hymns

Our Lord’s DayThe Fourth Sunday in Lent

March 18, 2012

Six o’clock in the Evening

Carillonneur, Dr. Linda Dzuris peals the Memorial Carillonthirty-minutes prior to the Festival of Hymns.

A Safe Stronghold Our God Is StillEIN FESTE BURG

James B. Slater

Blessed AssuranceASSURANCE

Richard Giszczak

Precious LordMAITLAND

Lee Cobb

Wondrous LoveWONDROUS LOVE

Milford Myhre

Evening MeditationRESTORATION

Geert D’Hollander

Paraphrase on “Land of Rest”LAND OF REST

Doug Gefvert

Abide With MeEVENTIDE

John Courter

Lift Every Voice and SingLIFT EVERY VOICE

John Courter

As we experience the quietness of the hour,may we prepare our hearts to hearthe voice of our heavenly Father.

Through the Church the Song goes on...GLORY TO GOD

Festival of Hymns

Our Glory to God Festival of Hymns incorporates hymntunes and texts included in the newPresbyterian Hymnal – Glory to God.

CARILLON PEAL Six o’clock

MUSIC FOR BRASS, ORGAN AND HANDBELLS“O Worship the King” LYONS Joshua A. Evanovich“All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” CORONATION/DIADEMATA

“Lift High the Cross” CRUCIFER Sondra K. Tucker

†PROCESSIONAL HYMN 460“Holy God, We Praise Your Name” GROSSER GOTT, WIR LOBEN DICH

ADVENT

REFLECTION Dr. Bringle

HYMN 9 “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” VENI EMMANUEL

Stanza One – Men Stanza Two – Women Stanza Three – All

ANTHEM “Come Now, Savior of the Nations” Michael Burkhardt

Ososo o soso,pyonghwaßi imgßm

uriga hanmomiruge hasoso.

Come now, O Prince of peace,make us one body.Come, O Lord Jesus,reconcile your people.

Come now, O God of love, make us one body.Come, Hope of unity, make us one body

Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile your people.

Savior of the nations, come,Promised One, make here your home!

Marvel now, O heaven and earth,That the Lord chose such a birth.

READING “A Stable Lamp Is Lighted” Richard Wilbur(Stanzas 1 and 4)

A stable-lamp is lighted whose glow shall wake the sky;The stars shall bend their voices, and every stone shall cry.And every stone shall cry, and straw like gold shall shine;a barn shall harbor heaven, a stall become a shrine.

For now, as at the ending, the low is lifted high;the stars shall bend their voices, and every stone shall cry.And every stone shall cry in praises of the childby whose descent among us the worlds are reconciled.

CHRISTMAS

REFLECTION Rev. Simmons

HYMN “Love Has Come” UN FLAMBEAU

REFLECTION

†HYMN 41 “O Come, All Ye Faithful” ADESTE FIDELIS

EPIPHANY

REFLECTION Dr. Todd

†HYMN “Sing of God Made Manifest” SALZBURG

REFLECTION

FROM PALMS TO PASSION

READING “A Stable Lamp Is Lighted” Richard Wilbur(Stanzas 2 and 3)

God’s child through David’s city shall ride in triumph by;the palm shall strew its branches, and every stone shall cry.And every stone shall cry. Thou heavy, dull and dumb,and lie within the roadway to pave His kingdom come.

He shall be forsaken, and yielded up to die;the sky shall groan and darken, and every stone shall cry.And every stone shall cry. For hearts made hard by sin;God’s blood upon the spearhead, God’s love refused again.

HYMN “Filled with Excitement” HOSANNA

REFLECTION

ANTIPHONAL READING “This Is the Night” Peter Abélard(Stanzas 1-4)

Choir This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping,when powers of darkness overcome the day,the night the faithful mourn the weight of evilwhereby our sins the Son of Man betray.

Congregation This night the traitor, wolf within the sheepfold,betrays himself into his victim’s will;the Lamb of God for sacrifice preparing,sin brings about the cure for sin’s own ill.

This night Christ institutes his holy supper,blest food and drink for heart and soul and mind;this night injustice joins its hand to treason’s,and buys the ransom-price of humankind.

This night the Lord by slaves shall be arrested,he who destroys our slavery to sin;accused of crime, to criminals be given,that judgment on the righteous Judge begin.

HYMN “Lamb of God” SWEET LAMB OF GOD

ANTIPHONAL READING “This Is the Night” Peter Abélard(Stanza 5)

Choir O make us sharers, Savior, of your passion,that we may share your glory that shall be;

Congregation let us pass through these three dark nights of sorrowto Easter’s laughter and its liberty.

ANTHEM “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” Gilbert M. MartinText: The Presbyterian Hymnal, No. 101

EASTER

REFLECTION Rev. Vanacore

†HYMN 123 “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” EASTER HYMN

ASCENSION AND PENTECOST

†HYMN “Jesus Is Risen, Alleluia!” MFURAHINI HALELUYA

REFLECTION

†HYMN 460“Holy God, We Praise Your Name” GROSSER GOTT, WIR LOBEN DICH

Stanzas 1-3 – Choir Stanza 4 – All

†BENEDICTION Dr. Bringle

ORGAN VOLUNTARY “Toccata on ‘The Old Hundredth’” Denis BédardThe people will please remain seated.

CARILLON PEAL

† The people will please stand as they are able.

Leading the festival service withDr. Mary Louise Bringle, Chair of Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song;

Rev. Lauren Sease Vanacore, Associate Minister;Serobia Garris, Soprano Soloist;

Branden M. Nicholson, Music Associate for Handbells;Timothy J. Belk, Director of Music Ministries and Organist are:

LITURGISTS

Rev. Lib McGregor SimmonsDavidson College Presbyterian Church

Davidson, North Carolina

Dr. John Y. Todd, IIIFirst Presbyterian ChurchRock Hill, South Carolina

FESTIVAL CHOIR AND RINGERS

Davidson College Presbyterian ChurchDavidson

First Presbyterian ChurchGastonia

First Presbyterian ChurchRock Hill, South Carolina

First Presbyterian ChurchYork, South Carolina

CONDUCTOR

Dr. Donald M. RogersWinthrop University

Rock Hill, South Carolina

JAZZ PIANIST

Rick BeanGood Shepherd Presbyterian Church

Charlotte

MEMBERS OF THE CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY

Richard Harris, First TrumpetChris Fensom, Second TrumpetFrank Portone, French Horn

John Bartlett, TromboneFred Boyd, Tuba

Tom Reaves, Percussion

The Glory to God Festival of Hymnsis presented to the glory of God

forever singing through the church.

Mary Louise (Mel) Bringle is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Humanities Divisionat Brevard College. Her Ph.D. in Theological Studies is from Emory University. In 2002, she wasrecognized as the “emerging hymn text writer” of the United States and Canada. Her original textsand translations are included in two single-author collections and in hymnals and supplements ofnumerous denominations in North America and Scotland. She currently serves as immediate PastPresident of The Hymn Society and as chair of the committee charged with creating a new hymnalfor the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. She is an Elder at Trinity Presbyterian Church inHendersonville, North Carolina.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHGastonia, North Carolina