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“A Light Among the Darkness”

Hail, Gladdening Light Charles Wood 1866-1926

(Gladsome Light) Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
from All-Night Vigil, opus 37 Gladsome light of the holy glory of the Immortal One – the Heavenly Father, holy and blessed.
Now that we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening,
We praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – God.
Thou art worthy at every moment to be praised in hymns by reverent voices.
O Son of God, Thou art the Giver of Life; therefore all the world glorifies Thee.

Patrick Hagen, tenor

Ave Maris Stella Trond Kverno b. 1945
Hail, star of the sea, loving mother of God, and virgin immortal, heaven’s blissful portal!
Receiving that “Ave” from the mouth of Gabriel, reversing the name of “Eva,” establish us in peace.
Break the chains of sinners, bring light to the blind, drive away our evils, and ask for all good things.
Show thyself to be a mother that, through thee, He may accept our prayers,
He who born for us chose to be your Son.
O incomparable Virgin, meek above all others, free us from our faults, meek and chaste.
Keep our lives pure. Make our journeys safe so that, seeing Jesus, we may rejoice together forever.
Let there be praise to God the Father, and glory to Christ the most High,
And to the Holy Spirit, and to the three be one honor. Amen.

Ave Maris Stella Edvard Grieg 1843-1907
Emily A. Wertz, conductor

Brief Interval

Abendlied Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
from Vier Quartette, opus 92

Night and day are engaged in peaceful struggle as if they are able to dampen or to dissolve.
Are you asleep, Grief, who depressed me? What was it then, my heart, that made me happy?
Both joy and sorrow, I feel, melted away, but gently they introduced the slumber.
And, while evermore floating upward, life itself appears to me like a lullaby.

O Schöne Nacht Johannes Brahms
from Vier Quartette, opus 92

Oh beautiful night!
The moon is shining in its fabulous splendor in the sky; around it, sweet company of little stars.
Oh beautiful night!
The dew is shimmering brightly on the green blades of grass; the nightingale sings ardently in the lilac bush, and
The boy steals softly to his lover.
Oh beautiful night!

Emily A. Wertz, conductor
Christopher M. Orzech, piano

Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre b. 1970 Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new-born baby.

from Three Australian Bush Songs Iain Grandage
I. Dawn b. 1945
II. Birds

Verleih uns Frieden Felix Mendelssohn
In our days of peril, send us peace and mercy, O Lord. 1809-1847
No God but thee can fight for us; no God but thee defend us.
Thou are our only God and Savior.

Christopher M. Orzech, organ

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