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Sunday Worship: All Saints Day: All That Endures

A service for All Saints

All Saints Day: All That Endures

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Rev Dr Alex Wimberly leader of the Corrymeela Community leads service for All Saints’ Day

The Rev Dr Alex Wimberly, leader of the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland, leads a service for All Saints’ Day

ALL SAINTS’ DAY: ALL THAT ENDURES 
In a year of upheaval when the familiar patterns of life have been overturned and so many people have been unexpectedly taken from us, the Rev Dr Alex Wimberly, leader of the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland, reflects on the memory and influence of the love and compassion of those we have lost. 

St Matthew 5.3-11 
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (R Vaughan Williams)
Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner
CD: Vaughan Williams (Argo) 
Let saints on earth on concert sing (Scottish Psalter 1615)
Performers:  Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge/Skinner
CD: In Ages Past (Gift of Music) 
The God of Jacob –Psalm 46 (Irish traditional melody)
Performers:  Kiran Wimberly/The McGraths
CD: Celtic Psalms (Essential Christian) 
Adagio from String Quintet in C Major (Schubert)
Performers:  Pavel Haas Quartet 
CD: Schubert:- Death And The Maiden Quartet and String Quintet In C Major (Supraphon) 
Blest are the pure in heart (Harmonischer Lieder-Schatz Franfurt, 1738 arr. WH Havergal)
Performers:  Choir of Wells Cathedral/Archer
CD: Lead kindly Light. The English Hymn. Vol 5 (Hyperion) 
Arioso from Cantata 156 (JS Bach) 
Performers:  Julian Lloyd Webber/John Lennon
CD: Cello Song (Philips) 
Brother, sister, let me serve you (Gillard/Pulkingham)
Performers: The Daily Service Singers
CD: The Hymn Makers: Hymns of Discipleship (Integrity) 
For all the saints who’ve shown your love (John L Bell)
Performers:  The Cathedral Singers/Pamela Warrick-Smith
CD: The Last Journey Songs for the time of grieving  (GIA/Naxos) 
Ye Holy Angels Bright (John Darwall)
Performers:  Trinity College Choir, Cambridge/Marlow
CD: Hymns from Trinity (Sony)

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