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Order of Service – Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Organ Prelude
Welcome and Opening Prayers
The Reverend Canon Robert Wright

"Song of Athene"
John Taverner
The Cathedral Choir


A Reading from Ecclesiastes
Sheila Hartnett-Devlin, Executive Vice President

A Passage from the Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Steven J. Tall, Executive Vice President

A Reading from Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
James C. Goodfellow, Vice Chairman

"Like As the Hart Desireth the Water Brooks"
Herbert Howells, adapted from Psalm 42
The Cathedral Choir

Remarks
The Honorable Thomas J. Kean, Former Governor of New Jersey
Member, Board of Directors

Anne M. Tatlock
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Candle Lighting Ceremony
Introduced by William Y. Yun, President

"His Eye Is on the Sparrow"
Civilla D. Martin
Darius DeHass, Soloist

Prayers from Different Traditions
Rabbi Michael Paley, Director of Jewish Resources
UJA-Federation of New York

His Excellency the Most Reverend James F. McCarthy
Auxilliary Bishop of New York

Imam Ibrahim Abdul-Malik

Prayer and Dismissal
The Right Reverend Mark S. Sisk
Episcopal Bishop of New York

Organ Postlude

"America the Beautiful"
Katherine Lee Bates, 1893

"Fanfare for the Common Man"
Aaron Copland

All are welcome at a reception in the Cathedral following the service.


The Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine
Johnson Flucker, Director of Music
William B. Randolph, Jr., Organist