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All Souls Requiem12 November 2017

11 a.m. Choral Eucharist

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The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral

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about todays readingsWisdom 3:1-9; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; John 5:24-27 Reading texts can be found at the end of the service leaflet.

At a recent memorial for North Bay fire victims, Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the audience: Hope is where it has always been, sitting right between faith and love. Love in the air is thicker than smoke.

Todays readings are about hope, specifically the Christian hope that death begins an endlessly new life, at once peaceful and grand. The Wisdom reading asks us to imagine death not as punishment but as a procession into Gods grace and mercy, where we are transformed into celestial bodies that shine forth and run like sparks through the stubble.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery! Paul exclaims in 1 Corinthians. We will not all die, but we will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of the eye. This to a mixed audience, poor and rich, women and men, insiders and outsiders, ex-pagans and mystery cultists. A life lived in this knowledge, says Paul, is steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord.

In Johns gospel Jesus says that all who hear and believe have eternal life. We will be judged with favor if we order our lives in the knowledge that everyone, not the least ourselves, is noticed and accounted for. This is Gods love, the promise of faith, hope in the air.

This reflection was written by Jim Simpson. He is a member of the Grace Cathedral Congregation Council and a graduate of the cathedrals Education for Ministry program.

Palestine: Unlimited Photography Exhibit - Final WeekSunday, October 1 to Sunday, October 29 Lower level

This gripping exhibit captures the lives of Palestinians from the lenses of young

Palestinian photographers. Experience the exhibit before it closes next Sunday.

Choral Requiem for All SoulsToday, November 12 11 a.m. Eucharist Cathedral

We remember those who have died with a special service. The Choir of Men and Boys will sing a breathtaking Mozarts

Requiem the famous composition featured in the Oscar-winning film Amadeus with full orchestra. Former dean Jane Shaw will preach.

The Forum with Peter CoyoteToday, November 12 9:30 a.m. Gresham Hall

The distinguished actor, voice of Ken Burns documentaries, author, activist and Zen Buddhist priest joins our dean Malcolm Clemens

Young and former dean Alan Jones for a conversation about mentors, the spiritual quest and the power of art.

39th Annual Service of RemembranceToday, November 12 3 p.m. Cathedral

This annual ceremony, hosted by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the British Benevolent Society, commemorates all who have lost their lives in armed conflict. The service includes the deeply moving cascade of thousands of poppy petals onto the altar. The Very Rev. Dr. Alan Jones, OBE and Dean Emeritus of Grace

Cathedral, will officiate. This service will replace the usual Sunday Evensong today.

The ReadingsWisdom 3: 19

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace. For though in the sight of others they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble. They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them forever. Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his holy ones, and he watches over his elect.

1 Corinthians 15: 5058

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: f lesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling

of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

John 5: 2427

Jesus said, Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself; and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

About the Music

On 9 October 1790 Leopold II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation. It was a time of great change. The kingdom of Hungary was laying the foundations for revolution. The Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) had just declared independence (short-lived) and Austria was stuck in a seemingly endless war with the Ottoman Empire. Due to the political climate and the period of mourning following the death of Joseph II, concert halls of Vienna either closed or their concert subscriptions cancelled. It was in this world that the 34 year old Mozart found himself struggling to raise a young family. Once the wunderkind of all Europe, the young composer was now struggling to make ends meet. It is no surprise that Mozart found himself gladly taking any offer to compose for money. He composed, in this last year of his life, scores of minuets and dances for Viennese dance halls, his last operatic work, The Magic Flute, and the Requiem.

The Requiem is well known for the mysterious origins of its creation as well as questions of its authorship. In July of 1791 Mozart was visited by a stranger who commissioned a mass for the dead and paid him half in advance. (The mysterious man was Count Franz Walsegg, a nobleman who later tried to pass it off as his own composition.) Mozart began working on the piece, but shelved it to finish another opera, La Clemenza di Tito. In September he began again in earnest, this time believing the piece to be his own Requiem mass. His wife Constanze became increasingly concerned with her husbands health. He began to talk more and more of his imminent death and the thought someone was trying to poison him. She locked his sketches away in a cupboard until she felt him well enough to work on the piece again.

There were a number of students and friends who helped Mozart complete the Requiem. It was Sussmayer that sat bedside with Mozart, beginning in November of 1791, and took the composers dictation. It is also believed that Mozart told Sussmayer exactly how to finish the piece in the event of Mozarts death. On the 4th of December, 1791 Mozart completed the Lacrimosa to the end of bar 8, and died shortly after midnight on 5 December. His own

Requiem Mass was at St. Michaels Church Vienna on 10 December. The first two movements were sung.

Mozarts Requiem is one of the most studied and debated pieces in the Western canon. Scholars cannot agree on who composed or orchestrated what. There are some facts, however, that are undisputed. Constanze was eager to see the piece finished in order to obtain the other half of the commission. She asked a couple of colleagues to finish the work, but it was Sussmayer who reluctantly took on the task. He completed the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei, based upon Mozarts sketches. It is believed that Mozart spelled out most of his intentions to Sussmayer before he died. In 1994, Robert Levin did another completion that