Music for Epiphany of Our Lord: Monday, January 6, 2020

In recent years Epiphany has come to be understood as a day, rather than a season. And it’s a special day – one that celebrates the revealing of Jesus Christ as a light for ALL nations.

The Sundays that follow are Sundays AFTER Epiphany, rather than Sundays “in” or “of.” They are also referred to as “ordinary” time because the Sundays bear ordinal designations. (First Sunday after Epiphany, Second Sunday after Epiphany, Third. . .)  As such, they are mostly “green” Sundays – except for Baptism of Our Lord and Transfiguration of our Lord. Both of these Sundays are white.

Holy Communion Setting Two, composed by Marty Haugen, is the source of our liturgical music this year beginning with Epiphany of Our Lord.

I am grateful for St. Mark’s longstanding tradition of observing the Lord’s Supper on the day of the Epiphany. It can be tempting to skip these principal festivals – especially when they fall on a Monday! – but we hope that you and your family will join us to hear the story of the Magi and sing some of the hymns specific to this day.

Opening Voluntary O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (Wie schön leuchtet)  setting, Niels Wilhelm Gade

Gathering Hymn Brightest and Best of the Stars (Morning Star)

ELW 303

Adoration of the Magi
Vicente Gil, 12th century

Hymn of the Day The First Noel (The First Nowell)

ELW 300

Musical Offering Saw You Never in the Twilight

Mark Schweizer

Text by C. F. Alexander, 1853

Communion Hymns

All My Heart Again Rejoices (Warum sollt ich) ELW 273

Bright and Glorious Is the Sky (Dejlig er den himmel blå) ELW 301

Sending Hymn Arise, Your Light Has Come (Festal Song)

ELW 314

Closing Voluntary O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (Wie schön leuchtet)
setting, Johann Christoph Bach
Adoration of the Magi credit: http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=155947, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134525