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Services & Preacher

  • 8:00am: Said Eucharist (Church)
  • 10:00am: Choral Eucharist with Baptisms (Church)
  • 4:00pm: Said Eucharist (Garden/Church)
  • Preacher & Celebrant: Father Matt 

Events & Fellowship

  • 10:00am: Nursery Care & Sunday School (Ranck Building)
  • Coffee Hour/Reception follows each worship service.

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About Worship Today

  • The Church celebrates the resurrection with a feast of fifty days which begins on Easter Sunday, the Sunday of the Resurrection. On Fridays in Eastertide special acts of discipline and self-denial commemorating the crucifixion of the Lord are not practiced. “Alleluia” is said or sung repeatedly during our liturgy. The Paschal Candle burns throughout Eastertide.  The central Christian belief is that Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is remembered and made present in our worship and in our common life. “Easter” is the English language name for the Sunday of the Resurrection. In most languages, the given name is some form of the word “Passover.”  Easter celebrates the “Passover” of Jesus from death to life.  

  • The Holy Eucharist, the principal act of Christian worship on the Lord's Day and other major Feasts, and Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, 1979, are the regular services appointed for public worship in the Episcopal Church. At Christ Church we celebrate the Holy Eucharist every Sunday, and also on Holy Days and other occasions.

  • Holy Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ's Body the Church. The bond which God establishes in Baptism is indissoluble. Holy Baptism is appropriately administered within the Eucharist as the chief service on a Sunday or other feast. Each candidate for Holy Baptism is to be sponsored by one or more baptized persons. Sponsors of adults and older children present their candidates and, thereby signify their endorsement of the candidates and their intention to support them by prayer and example in their Christian life. Sponsors of infants, commonly called godparents, present their candidates, make promises in their own names, and also take vows on behalf of their candidates. It is fitting that parents be included among the godparents of their own children. Today we celebrate the Baptisms of Jackson Stiefvater and Isabella Holder.

  • Today’s liturgy is from the red Book of Common Prayer 1979.  All hymns are taken from the blue Hymnal 1982 or other authorized hymnals for use in the Episcopal Church. All hymns are reprinted with permission under OneLicense.net A713125.

Music & Lectionary Notes:

  • Prelude: Prelude in a BWV 543 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  • Processional:  #175, Hail thee, festival day! Salve festa dies
  • The First Lesson: Acts 2:14a, 36-41
  • Gradual: Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17, Crotch
  • The Second Lesson: 1 Peter 1:17-23
  • Sequence Hymn: #178, Alleluia alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord, Alleluia No. 1
  • Gospel: Luke 24:13-35
  • Baptism Hymn: #482) Lord of all hopefulness, Slane
  • Offertory Anthem: Cantate Domino by Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni 1657-1743
  • Offertory Doxology: #380, vs 3, Old 100th
  • Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-125 from A Community Mass by Richard Proulx (b. 1937)
  • Agnus Dei: #S-163 by Robert Powell (b. 1932)
  • Communion:  Come my way, my truth, my life by Harold Friedell 1905-1958
  • Postcommunion Hymn: Thine be the glory, Judas Maccabeaus
  • Processional: Toccata by Bischof
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