May 18, 2025, Sunday

Services & Preacher today

• 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I).
• 10am: Choral Eucharist(Rite II).
• 10am: Sunday School & Nursery care.
• 4pm: Confirmation & Choral Eucharist (Rite II).
• The Rev. Matthew Mead Mead, Priest & Rector is our celebrant and preacher in the morning.
• The Right Rev. Mary D. Glasspool, Bishop Assistant of New York is our celebrant and preacher at 4pm.

 Fellowship & Sunday Events Events

• Coffee Hour follows each service.
• The Bishop is meeting with the Vestry at 3pm.
• The Bishop is meeting with the Confirmation Class at 3:30pm.
• A special reception follows the 4pm service.

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The 10am and 4pm Livestream links are above.
• Livestreams for all of today's services and all prior weeks can be found HERE. Note - if you expereince any issues with the 10am live stream, click here.

About the Eastertide & The Holy Eucharist

• 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.

• 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.

About Confirmation

• In the course of their Christian development, those baptized at an early age are expected, when they are ready and have been duly prepared, to make a mature public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilities of their Baptism and to receive the laying on of hands by the bishop. Those baptized as adults, unless baptized with laying on of hands by a bishop, are also expected to make a public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilities of their Baptism in the presence of a bishop and to receive the laying on of hands.

  Today we celebrate the Confirmation of Harris Bland, Ainsley Bloise, Ethan Bloise, Emmet Cho, Riley McGrory, and Aiden Munro. 

About Bishop Glasspool

• Our celebrant and preacher at 4pm today is the Right Reverend Mary D. Glasspool, Bishop Assistant of New York. Bishop Glasspool came to the Diocese of New York as Assistant Bishop in April, 2016. Previously she had been Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles (elected December 2009, consecrated May 2010). She was born on Staten Island, raised in Goshen, NY, where her father, Douglas Murray Glasspool, served as rector of St. James’ Church until his death in 1989, and graduated Bachelor of Arts Magna cum Laude from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA in 1976; earned her Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA in 1981; was ordained a deacon in June 1981 by Bishop Paul Moore, Jr. of New York; and in March 1982 was ordained a priest by Bishop Lyman Ogilby of Pennsylvania.  From 1981 to 1984, she served as assistant to the rector, and later interim priest-in-charge, of St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, moving from there to be rector of St. Luke’s and St. Margaret’s Church, Boston, where she remained until 1992. She then moved to the Diocese of Maryland, first as rector of St. Margaret’s Church in Annapolis (1992-2001) and then, until her election in 2009 as suffragan bishop of Los Angeles, as Canon to the Bishops in the diocese.

Music & Lectionary Notes

• Prelude at 10am: 
• Prelude at 4pm: 
• Processional Hymn: #397, God is love, let heaven adore him Abbot’s Leigh
• Gloria in excelsis (at 10am only): #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
• First Lesson: Acts 11:1-18
  Gradual: Psalm 148:1,7, 10-13, 14C , Anglican Chant setting by 
• Second Lesson: Revelation 21:1-6
• Sequence Hymn at 10am: #203, O Sons and daughters let us sing,O filii et filiae
• Sequence Hymn at 4pm: #208, The strife is o'er, Victory
• Gospel: John 13:31-35
• Offertory Anthem at 10am: 
• Offertory Anthem at 4pm: 
• Offertory Doxology: #380, vs 3, Old 100th
• Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-125 from A Community Mass; Richard Proulx (b. 1937)
• Agnus Dei: #S-163 by Robert Powell (b. 1932)
• Communion Anthem at 10am: 
• Communion Anthem at 4pm: 
• Postcommunion Hymn at 10am: #208, The strife is o'er, Victory
• Postcommunion Hymn at 4pm: #376, Joyful, joyful we adore thee, Hymn to Joy
• Processional Voluntary at 10am: 
• Processional Voluntary at 4pm: