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Sunday, February 5, 2011

Solemnity of the Presentation of the Lord Jesus
in the Temple | Candlemas

7:40 am        Morning Prayer, Church
8:00 am        Low Mass, Church
10:00 am     CGS; Children 3-5, 12th Street Atrium
10:00 am     CGS; Children 6 and over, St. Vincent's Atrium
10:00 am     High Mass, Church

Read about the music for High Mass >>>
Mass Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater — Tomás Luis de Victoria
Psalm Ps. 84: Anglican Chant — C. H. H. Parry
Canticle Nunc dimitis — William Byrd
Motet When to the temple Mary went — Johann Eccard
Hymns 259: Hail to the Lord who comes — Old 120th
257: O Zion, open wide thy gates — Edmonton
258: Virgin-born, we bow before thee — Psalm 8
   7: Christ, whose glory fills the skies — Ratisbon

11:50 am     Coffee Hour, Undercroft

About Our Community

The good life comes from being passionate about something bigger than yourself, belonging to a community of people who care for you, having a grateful heart, knowing your purpose in life, experiencing renewal and growth – the things that we can find and experience here together.

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Ascension and St. Agnes is a parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and part of the worlwide Anglican Communion. Our congregation comprises families and individuals of all ages and from a variety of different backgrounds and experiences. We come from both the immediate neighborhood and from the larger Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Brocket familyWe value connection with God, with each other, and with our better selves. We are here for Christians to have a parish home, for those seeking God to explore and question, and for those feeling alienated from God to have a spiritual center.

Whoever you are and wherever you are in your spiritual life, we invite you to be part of our community.

Notes on Music for Sunday's High Mass

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) was a gifted Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, and is considered by many to be second only to Palestrina as a composer of sacred polyphony at the time. He was born in Avila, likely studying with Escobedo at Segovia early in his life. He is known to have gone to Rome around 1564 where he may have studied with Palestrina though the evidence is circumstantial ... Read more >>>

William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) must have greatly impressed Elizabeth I: not only was he permitted to write music appropriate to Roman Catholic worship—which had recently been made illegal in England as part of the progress of the Reformation—he was also allowed, along with his friend and colleague Thomas Tallis, to publish it free from persecution ... Read more >>>

Johann Eccard (1553-1611), was born at Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to Munich, where he became the pupil of Orlando di Lasso. In his company, Eccard is said to have visited Paris, but in 1574, he was again at Mühlhausen, where he lived for four years. ... Read more >>>

 

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come.
And let them that hear say, Come.
And let them that are athirst come.
And whosoever will, let them take the water of life freely.

 

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