‘LOVE BADE ME WELCOME’ - presented by ‘Reflection’

‘LOVE BADE ME WELCOME’
presented by ‘Reflection’

St Nicholas church, Rawreth - Sunday 18 July 2010, 6.00pm


Reading First letter of St John 4 : 16b (New Revised Standard Version)

Music Ubi Caritas (Words, trans from the Latin by James Quinn; Music, Dom Gregory Murray)

Reading First letter of St John 4 : 7-12 (NRSV)

Music Psalm 90 (Setting by Christopher Walker)

Readings St John’s Gospel 14 : 15-17 (New Revised Standard Version)
St John’s Gospel 15 : 9-12 ( “ “ “ “ )

Music If ye love me, keep my commandments (Setting by Thomas Tallis)

Reading The flowing light of the Godhead (Mechtild of Magdeburg)

Music My song is love unknown (Words, Samuel Crossman; Music, John Ireland)

Reading Love bade me welcome (George Herbert)

Music Come down, O Love divine (Words, Italian trans R Littledale; Music, R Vaughan Williams)

Reading The Kitchen (Tim Marks)

Music Enfold me in your Love (Words & music, Margaret Rizza)

Reading Abou Ben Adhem (Leigh Hunt)

Music I give to you a new commandment (Words, John 13 & Liber Usualis; Music, Peter Nardone)

Reading First letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 13 : 1-8a, 13 (Revised English Bible)

Music Let love be real (Words, Michael Forster; Music, Christopher Tambling)

Readings Excerpt on Marriage, from ‘The Prophet’ (Kahlil Gibran)
He wishes for the cloths of heaven (W B Yeats)

Music Träumerei (Dreaming) (Robert Schumann) - Piano solo

Reading How do I love thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Music My love is like a red, red rose (Words, Robert Burns; Tune, 18th century?)

Readings Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (William Shakespeare)
A code poem for the French Resistance (Leo Marks)

Music O make me holy (Traditional spiritual)

Readings Summer (Spike Milligan)
In a Bath teashop (John Betjeman)

Music The Lark in the Clear Air (Traditional Irish) - Descant recorder & keyboard

Reading First Meeting (A S J Tessimond)

Music Ubi Caritas (Taizé chant; Music, Jacques Berthier)
May the Lord bless you (Words, adapted from Gaelic Blessing, & music : Margaret Rizza)