Voluntary Concerto in C Major, BWV 595 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

In Procession (sung by all, standing) Blue Hymnal #525, “The Church’s one foundation”

Text: Samuel John Stone (1839-1900) Music: “Aurelia,” Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) arr. Arlan Sunnarborg

The Bidding Prayer (remain standing) Beloved people of God, we have come together this evening to celebrate the many saints who have gone before us at St. Luke’s. We are thankful for their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, for their faithfulness in the ministry of your kingdom, and for the legacy we have inherited as we follow in their steps and continue on the path of your Son our Lord.

As we hear the stories of our forbearers and the testimony of scripture, let us celebrate our past and rejoice in our present, looking forward with eagerness to the future you have prepared for us to inhabit. Give us a zeal for mis-sion. Help us to look beyond our walls to those who do not know you. Make us a blessing to the community that surrounds us and empower us to move forward from strength to strength in the power of your Holy Spirit. The Invitatory and Psalter (remain standing) Officiant O God, make speed to save us. People O Lord, make haste to help us.

Officiant and People Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

Psalm 77:11-15 (read in unison)11 I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will remember thy wonders of old.12 I will meditate also upon all thy work, And muse on thy doings.13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God?14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.

Said together, standingGlory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Our celebration service combines scripture with music and readings from the past 150 years that reflect St. Luke’s history, worship

and service to the community.

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The Lessons

Readings from St. Luke’s history paired with a lesson from scripture.

A Reading from the History of St. Luke’s (seated) Brad CurreyThe Founding of St. Luke’s

The day after the battle, I was sent to the field with one hundred and fifty ambulances to gather up the wounded. It was a sad duty. I saw many distressing sights. I was directed to convey the Federal wounded to the Field Hospitals fitted up by the Federal surgeons that had been captured to the number of not less than fifty, I think. I labored all the day and at nightfall I came upon a wretched hut into which a half doz-en wounded men had dragged themselves. I found there among them a young fellow about seventeen years of age. He had a severe wound in the leg and a small bone had been torn away. I chatted with him pleasantly for a while and promised to take him to the hospital early the next morning. Early the next day when I went to fulfill my promise, I saw a sur-geon’s amputating knife on the head of a barrel by the door of the hut, and found that my young friend had been weeping bitterly. When I asked him what was the matter, he replied: “The surgeon has been ex-amining my wound and says that my leg must be amputated. I would not care for myself, but my poor mother -” and then he burst into an agony of tears. “Nonsense!” I said to him. “They shall not take off your leg.” And lifting him up bodily, I placed him in an ambulance and took him to the Hospital, where the next day I found him bright and cheerful. I learned subsequently that the “surgeon,” who was about to amputate his leg unnecessarily, was a doctor who had come up from Georgia to get a little practice in that line. The boy subsequently became a railway conductor and used to say many years later, “You know I belong to Bishop Quintard. He saved my leg and perhaps my life at Chickamau-ga. The leg young Saw-bones was going to amputate is now as good as the other.”

(from “Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee” memoir and diary edited by Sam D. Elliott)

The First Lesson: Isaiah 56:1-2, 7-8 (seated) Mignon CrawfordThus says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. Happy is the mortal who does this, the one who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not pro-faning it, and refrains from doing any evil. These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

From its earliest beginnings,

St. Luke’s mission has been to

serve God by serving people

in need. Indeed, St. Luke’s was

founded as a “refuge for refugees.”

As the Civil War commenced, fighting

in Kentucky and Tennessee caused

people to flee their homes, pushing

them south. The resulting influx of

refugees and homeless people

flooded Atlanta. A young,

Connecticut-born doctor

turned Episcopal priest saw the

need for a new church to tend

their spiritual needs.

The Rev. Dr. Charles Quintard

came to Atlanta in February 1864

having been appointed surgeon

and chaplain of the First

Tennessee Regiment. By April,

Dr. Quintard’s new church

had been built, paid for and was

ready for consecration.

On Friday, April 22, 1864, Bishop

Stephen Elliott arrived in Atlanta

to consecrate the church and

confirm five people. The bishop

referenced Psalm 77 in his sermon.

The young rector was by all

accounts extraordinary. He split

his time between Atlanta and

Dalton, faithfully serving his parish

while carrying out his duties

as a military chaplain.

The parish thrived for several

months. In August the

“refuge for refugees” was

shelled and burned down.

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Hymn (sung by all, standing) Lift Every Voice & Sing #141, “Shall we gather at the river?”

A Reading from the History of St. Luke’s (seated) Neil ShorthouseDr. Wilmer: St. Luke’s Voice in the Community

The truth is that in decrying what they are pleased to stigmatize as sen-timent the so-called practical men are the most unpractical and vision-ary of mortals. Objects appeal to us only as far as feeling is aroused, and feeling is but another name for sentiment. I have seen some forty or fifty mill owners in a committee room of the Georgia legislature show a good deal of sentiment on behalf of the let-alone policy in regard to the question of child labor. Do the opponents of sentiment mean to ignore or defy the sentiments of justice, humanity, liberty, as practical and necessary forces in life? The difference between honest and dishonest people may be called a difference in sentiment. But the science of political economy is at last on the side of humanity. The ‘dismal science’ has become infused with something of light and warmth. The change is due to the recognition of the person rather than the thing as a controlling factor in the equation of human life. Children are the only hope of the future and the surest guarantee of coming harm to society if maltreated. They are the seed corn for all future crops.

( -from remarks made to the National Conference of Charities

and Correction | AJC May 12, 1903)

The Second Lesson: Matthew 19:13-15 (seated) John BeaneThen little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them; but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” And he laid his hands on them and went on his way.Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

Anthem Children of the heavenly Father trad. Swedish, arr. Paul Sjolund

Sung by the Adult, Youth, and Children’s Choirs

Children of the heavenly Father safely in his bosom gather, nestling bird nor star in heaven such a refuge e’er was given. God his own doth tend and nourish, in his holy courts they flourish. From all evil things he spares them, in his mighty arms he bears them. Praise the Lord in joyful numbers, your protector never slumbers; at the will of your Defender every foe-man must surrender. Though he giveth or he taketh, God his children ne’er forsaketh, his the loving purpose solely to preserve them, pure and holy.

When The Rev. Dr. C.B. Wilmer

arrived at St. Luke’s in 1900 the

parish had more than 800

members and was in its third

location. Another man might be

remembered for moving the

parish to Peachtree Street and

constructing a beautiful new

English gothic church building.

But Dr. Wilmer’s legacy

transcends the physical

presence of St. Luke’s parish.

Indeed, he nurtured the spirit of the

congregation - present and future -

speaking out on issues of justice and

equality. His parishioners weren’t

always pleased, but there is little

doubt that Dr. Wilmer embodied

what we know today as the spirit

of St. Luke’s.

The early part of the 20th Century

was a turbulent time in Atlanta.

Dr. Wilmer fearlessly demanded an

end to child labor, tolerance

between the races and justice for

all God’s children.

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A Reading from the History of St. Luke’s (seated) Julie ShippA Hallmark of Compassion

Early in Robert Barrett’s ministry in Butchertown, a destitute young woman and her infant son came to their door seeking aid. Robert asked Kate to see what she could do for the woman and her child. After find-ing them both some food and laying the infant on a sofa near where her infant firstborn was also sleeping, the two talked about how the young woman had gotten into such desperate straits. The young woman, it turned out, was also from the country, had been valedictorian in her country school, and had wanted to escape, as had Kate. The father of her child was the first educated man with whom the young woman had ever been associated, and he had abandoned her. Kate later wrote:

I turned away from her to hide my tears, and as I did so, my eyes fell upon the sweet smiling face of her baby, that lay all unconscious of the terrible burden its coming into the world had meant to its heart-broken mother. She, too, looked at her baby and bursting into tears said: “I could stand it all for my-self, but my poor, poor baby – to think how I have sinned against it.” There the two babies lay, side by side, my boy and hers, both with equal possibilities for good, and terrible possibilities for evil; both innocent and pure; both equal in the sight of God; and yet in the eyes of the world, how different. My boy, with an honored name and a considerate and loving father; her boy, an alien without name or father. ... And when I realized that in this unequal struggle against this helpless, trusting, heart-bro-ken woman and her nameless baby, good men and bad men, good women and bad women stood shoulder to shoulder to keep her down and out, and to make it almost impossible for her to be an honest woman and true mother – that the unjust laws of society denied her the right to redeem the mistakes of the past by an unblemished future – my very blood boiled within me. It was all so different from what I had thought and imagined. Where was the terrible degradation, the hopeless depravity, the groveling nature with which I had always been taught to associate the fallen woman? I heard, with startling distinctness, our Savior’s question to Simon, “Seest thou this woman?” Almost unknown to myself there entered into my heart at that moment a covenant with God that so long as I lived my voice should always be lifted in behalf of this outcast class, and my hand always held out to them.

From that time forward, Kate Waller Barrett was committed to estab-lishing a home to rescue pregnant unwed girls and other outcast women. The opportunity at last presented itself in Atlanta, and much of the community mobilized against the proposal in fear. It was through Bar-rett’s skills in mediation that the supporters overcame that mobilized community opposition and obtained Atlanta City Council approval.

(from a sermon delivered by Tal Day at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hearthsville, VA; All Saints’ Day 2010)

The Bishop of Georgia made St. Luke’s his Cathedral in 1881.

He did so, not because of its grandeur or wealth, but to help

rescue the little church. St. Luke’s, he said, “is one of the smallest parishes in the Diocese. It was

heavily burdened with debt, and the congregation so poor that

more than once the building had been threatened with a sheriff’s

sale…Whether it will grow to such dimensions as to really merit the

name of a cathedral, I cannot tell.”

The parish did grow - and prospered.

In 1887, when The Rev. Dr. Robert Barrett became dean of St. Luke’s

Cathedral, there were over 400 communicants. The Rev. Barrett

was well-liked and thoughtful. His wife, Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, was a woman ahead of her time.

She cared deeply about the plight of other, less fortunate, women and devoted her life to helping

them. The mother of six children and a graduate of the Women’s

Medical College of Georgia, Dr. Kate Barrett established Atlanta’s first shelter for unmarried mothers,

despite official opposition.

She continued the work she’d begun in Atlanta for the rest of her life.

After the unexpected death of her husband in 1894, Dr. Barrett

joined forces with a wealthy New Yorker and together they

developed the first national organization devoted to creating safe havens for unwed mothers.

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The Third Lesson: John 8:1b-11 (seated) John Robert MayesEarly in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

Anthem Bless this house Helen Taylor

Sung by the Adult, Youth, and Children’s Choirs

Bless this house, O Lord we pray, make it safe by night and day. Bless these walls so firm and stout, keeping want and trouble out. Bless the roof and chimneys tall, let thy peace lie over all; bless these doors, that they may prove ever open to joy and love. Bless these windows shining bright, letting in God’s heavenly light. Bless the hearth ablazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer. Bless us all that we may be fit, O Lord, to dwell with thee. Bless us all that one day we may dwell, O Lord, with thee.

Text: Mae Brahe (1885-1956) Music: Helen Taylor (1876-1943) arr. Arlan Sunnarborg

As the new century dawned,

St. Luke’s grew and prospered. The

parish that needed rescuing had now

outgrown its space and plans were in

the works for a new

St. Luke’s - an English Gothic church

on Peachtree Street. Dr. Wilmer invited

Rabbi David Marx of The Temple

to take part in the 1906

cornerstone-laying service. It was

an ecumenical act, new to

Atlanta at that time, and marked

St. Luke’s as a place of religious

tolerance.

On Easter Day 1913, The Good

Shepherd mural was unveiled above the

Altar. Before long, it and St. Luke’s be-

came synonymous with caring for the

physical needs of the less fortunate.

In 1917 the mortgage was paid and

the church consecrated. Dr. High Moor

became rector in 1925 and abolished

pew rent. By 1931 the parish had

doubled in size with 1800 members.

There were lean times during

the Great Depression but

St. Luke’s continued to move forward,

beginning live radio broadcasts

of Sunday services and establishing

the St. Luke’s Endowment.

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A Reading from the History of St. Luke’s (seated) Steve StephensA Voice from Atlanta

Well, it may be true that morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can restrain him from lynching me; and I think that is pretty important also. And so while the law may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men if vigorously enforced, and through changes in habits, pretty soon attitudinal changes will take place and even the heart may be changed in the process. And so that is a challenge and a great one. For all men of goodwill to work passionately and unrelentingly to get rid of racial injus-tice, whether it exists in the United States of America, wheth-er it exists in England, or whether it exists in South Africa, wherever it is alive it must be defeated and somewhere along the way, in this sometimes sick and often terribly schizophrenic world, we have got to come to see that the destiny of white and colored persons is tied together. In a real sense we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And, finally, there can be no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white routes and there can be no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not recognize the necessity of sharing that power with colored aspirations for freedom and human dignity. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling dis-cords of our nation, and of all the nations in the world, into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood and speed up the day when all over the world justice will roll down like waters and righ-teousness like a mighty stream.

(from a speech delivered by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Newcastle University November 13, 1967)

The Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 58:6-9 (seated) Jane LongIs not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rearguard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am.Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

Hymn (sung by all, standing) Lift Every Voice & Sing #8, “Deep river”

Text: Traditional Music: Negro Spiritual, arr. Arlan Sunnarborg

Two World Wars, the Great Depression, the awakening

consciousness of the 1950s, along with the growth of Atlanta,

impacted the parish. More stained glass windows were

installed during the 1940’s and 50’s.Christian education, Sunday

School, grew in importance. The parish generously supported

Diocesan expansion. And all the while, St. Luke’s continued to care for its people and to look

for ways to serve the community.

In 1962, the parish electedits first female member of the

Vestry. Sophia Hyatt also served as chair of the Memorial Gifts

Committee and president of theECW for the Diocese of Atlanta.

Later in the decade, St. Luke’s would partner with All Saints’ Episcopal

Church on two remarkable projects: Canterbury Court

and St. Jude’s Recovery Center.

This was a time of turmoil and great change in the nation and

the parish reflected it. St. Luke’s watched many of its neighbor

churches leave the area, following their members to the suburbs. A

conscious decision was made that St. Luke’s would remain and embrace

its role as a “downtown” church. The decision ushered in new

ministries - and increased sensativity - to the issues

of racism, injustice and poverty.

Four ministries that flourish and continue serving to this day began during this time: the Community

Kitchen (later as Crossroads Community Ministries), the

Pantry (later as the Atlanta Food Bank), the Training and Counseling

Center, and the Street Academy (later as Communities in Schools).

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A Reading from the History of St. Luke’s (seated) Melba HughesServing All God’s Children

The Jesus I worship is not likely to collaborate with those who vilify and persecute an already oppressed minority. I myself could not have opposed the injustice of penalizing people for something about which they could do nothing -- their race -- and then have kept quiet as women were being penalized for something they could do nothing about -- their gender; hence my support for the ordi-nation of women to the priesthood and the episcopate. Equally, I cannot keep quiet while people are being penalized for something about which they can do nothing -- their sexuality. To discriminate against our sisters and brothers who are lesbian or gay on grounds of their sexual orientation for me is as totally unacceptable and unjust as apartheid ever was.

( from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s book,God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations)

The Fifth Lesson: Revelation 7:9-12 (seated) Katherine Claire KennedyAfter this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.” Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.

Hymn (sung by all, standing) Blue Hymnal #362, “Holy, holy, holy”

Sermon The Rev. Daniel P. Matthews Jr.

By the time Desmond Tutu visited

St. Luke’s in the 1990’s, the parish

had its first African-American

priest, The Rev. Dr. Reynell Parkins.

Indeed, when The Rev. Dan Matthews

hired him in 1980, Fr. Parkins

was the first black man to serve

in a majority white congregation

in Atlanta. His presence was

impressive far beyond his

skin color. Parkins helped form

St. Luke’s Economic Development

Corporation (known today as Atlanta

Center for Self Sufficiency) to provide

job training to people who are

homeless. He began a Sunday service

for the growing Hispanic

community. The Mail Room and the

St. Luke’s Clinic (both of which are

now associated with Crossroads

Community Ministries) expanded the

parish’s service to our neighbors who

are homeless. These programs

cemented the parish’s commitment

to finding God in all people.

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I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

(congregation is seated)

Anthem Anima Christi Francis Koerber (b. 1955)

Sung in Latin by the Junior and Senior Choristers

Text: St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

The Apostles’ Creed Officiant and People together, all standing

The final decade of the century

was a period of physical

transformation for St. Luke’s.

The Browne Decorating Company

building was bought and razed to

create space for the Memorial

Garden. On the other side

of the building, the Bell Tower,

with its ten English change bells

was built. These improvements

set the stage for worship,

ministry and growth in the

new century.

Soul of Christ, sanctify me.Body of Christ, rescue me.Blood of Christ, impassion me.Water from the side of Christ, wash me.

Passion of Christ, fortify me.O gracious Jesus, hear my prayer. Within thy wounds shelter me. Let me not be separated from thee.

And from the enemy defend me. And in the hour of death call me, And invite me to come to thee.

And with the saints in glory I will praise thee for ever and ever. Amen.

Anima Christi, sanctifica me.Corpus Christi, salva me.Sanguis Christi, inebria me.Aqua lateris Christi, lava me.

Passio Christi, conforta me.O bone Jesu, exaudi me.Intra tua vulnera absconde me.Ne permittas me separari a te.

Ab hoste maligno defende me.In hora mortis meae voca me,Et iube me veni re ad te.

Ut cum Sanctis tuis laudem te.In saecula saeculorum. Amen.

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Seven St. Luke’s rectors have become bishops.

Dr. Quintard | 1864Bishop of Tennessee

The Rev. Charles Beckwith | 1884-86Bishop of Alabama

The Rev. John McCormick | 1895-98Bishop of Western Michigan

The Rev. John Walker | 1931-42Bishop of Atlanta

The Rev. George Gunn | 1942-43Bishop of Southern Virginia

The Rev. J. Milton Richardson | 1943-52Bishop of Texas

Charles E. Bennison Jr. | 1988-91Bishop of Pennsylvania

The Prayers

(congregation stands)

Officiant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Officiant Let us pray.

Officiant and People

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Hymn (sung by all, standing) Blue Hymnal #377, “All people that on earth do dwell”

1. All in Unison2. Congregation Unison Melody, Choir Harmony3. Choir Only4. Choir Only5. All in Unison

A Litany of Thanksgiving for a Church (remain standing) Ann Cramer Let us thank God whom we worship here in the beauty of holiness.

Eternal God, the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, much less the walls of temples made with hands. Graciously receive our thanks for this place, and accept the work of our hands, offered to your honor and glory.

For the Church universal, of which these visible buildings are a symbol,We thank you, Lord.

For your presence whenever two or three have gathered together in your Name,We thank you, Lord.

For this place where we may be still and know that you are God,We thank you, Lord.

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The original St. Luke’s church

building on Walton Street was

consecrated in April 1864 and

shelled three months later. From

that time until 1870, little is known

about the parish. In fact, in the early

1950’s, the actual founding date of

St. Luke’s was questioned by an

Atlanta church historian. The

question was raised again in 1964

as the Georgia Historical Commission

considered placing a historical

marker to commemorate the

centennial of the Battle of Atlanta

with a brief account of the parish

and its founding rector,

Dr. Charles Quintard. After a

review of the available

documentations, the commission

determined that the 1870

congregation was indeed a

continuation of the 1864

congregation, and the historical

marker was placed in front of

this building.

For making us your children by adoption and grace, and refreshing us day by day with the bread of life.We thank you, Lord.

For the knowledge of your will and the grace to perform it, We thank you, Lord.

For the fulfilling of our desires and petitions as you see best for us,We thank you, Lord.

For the pardon of our sins, which restores us to the company of your faith-ful people,We thank you, Lord.

For the blessing of our vows and the crowning of our years with your good-ness,We thank you, Lord.

For the faith of those who have gone before us and for our encouragement by their perseverance,We thank you, Lord.

For the fellowship of St. Luke our patron, and of all your Saints,We thank you, Lord.

After a brief silence, the Celebrant concludes with the following DoxologyYours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty;

People For everything in heaven and on earth is yours.Celebrant Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom;People And you are exalted as head over all. Amen.

Announcements (congregation is seated)

Anthem Psalm 150 César Franck (1822-1890)

Alleluia! O praise ye the Lord, praise God in his temple. Praise ye the Lord, in the firmament of his power.

O praise him for his might, and the greatness of his wonders: O praise him according to his majesty.

Praise the Lord with the sound of the trumpet, Praise the Lord with the lute and the harp.

Praise the Lord with the timbrel, Praise the Lord with the dance.

O, praise him with the organ and instruments of strings. Praise him upon the loud cymbals.

Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord! Alleluia!

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In 1939 the British firm, Heaton,

Butler and Bayne, was commissioned

to create St. Luke’s Sermon on the

Mount stained glass window. Work

on the window was begun in London

even as England and France declared

war on Germany.

Less than a year later, the window was

destroyed during the Blitz,

relentless German air raids on

London and other British cities.

Work began again and near

Thanksgiving 1941 word was

received by St. Luke’s that the

window was complete and ready

to be shipped across the Atlantic.

Just days later, Pearl Harbor was

bombed and the US entered the war.

To lessen the possibility the ship

carrying the window would become

involved –and possibly sunk - in the

“Battle of the Atlantic,” as Winston

Churchill called the ongoing naval

struggle between Hitler and the Allies,

the window was packed aboard a

neutral Panamanian freighter. The

ship made safe passage and the

window was dedicated in 1942,

three years before the war would end.

The Collects (standing)

The Collect of the Day Almighty God, who inspired your servant Luke the physician to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of your Son: Graciously continue in your Church this love and power to heal, to the praise and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A Collect for the Anniversary of a ChurchAlmighty God, to whose glory we celebrate the anniversary of this house of prayer: We give you thanks for the fellowship of those who have worshiped in this place, and we pray that all who seek you here may find you, and be filled with your joy and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.

(congregation is seated)

Anthem Prayer René Clausen (b. 1953)

Help me spread your fragrance wherever I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may be only a radiance of yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I know will feel your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me, but only you. Amen.

Text: Mother Theresa of Calcutta

Officiant and PeopleA Prayer of St. Chrysostom (standing)

Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.

The Officiant concludes

Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)

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St. Luke’s Rectors

Charles Todd Quintard, M.D.1864

Joseph H. Cross, D.D.1870-71

George Macauley1871-78

C.J. Wingate1879

William C. Williams, D.D.1880-84

Charles M. Beckwith1884-86

Robert South Barrett, D.D.1887-94

John Newton McCormick1895-98

John Gass1898

Charles Augustus Jessup1899-1900

Cary Breckinridge Wilmer, D.D.1900-24

In Procession (standing)

Blue Hymnal #473, “Lift high the cross”

Text: George William Kitchin (1827-1912); alt. Michael Robert Newbolt (1874-1956)

Music: “Crucifer” Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875-1947); desc. Richard Proulx (1937-2010)

DismissalDeacon Let us bless the Lord. People Thanks be to God.

Voluntary Ie Sonate, Op. 42: III. Final Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

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