Services & Preacher today

  • 7:30: Eucharist with Hymns (Rite II).
  • The Rev. Matthew Mead Mead, Priest & Rector is our celebrant and preacher .

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  • 6:0p pm - Steak Dinner!

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About the Ascension Day & The Holy Eucharist

  • Today is Ascension Day.  According to the Acts of the Apostles, our Lord Jesus Christ was present to his disciples for forty days after his resurrection.  On the fortieth day he ascended to heaven and took his place at the right hand of the Father.  Today the Church celebrates this event, the Ascension.  In the Episcopal Church it is one of our seven “Principal Feasts.”  Easter, the Church’s greatest season, does not end today, but lasts for fifty days and concludes on the Day of Pentecost.  

  • 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.

Music & Lectionary Notes

  • Prelude : Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Pére by Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992
    (Majesty of Christ praying that His Father should glorify Him)    Ascension Suite Movement I
  • Processional Hymn: #494, Crown him with mahy crowns, Diademata
  • Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
  • First Lesson: Acts 1:1-11
  • Gradual: Psalm 93
  • Second Lesson: Ephesians 1:15-23
  • Sequence Hymn: #214, Hail the day that sees him rise, Llanfair
  • Gospel: Luke 24:44-53
  • Offertory Voluntary: Impovisation by Bischof
  • 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 Voluntary: Impovisation by Bischof
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #483, The head that once was crowned with thorns, St. Magnus
  • Processional Voluntary: Ascension Postlude by Bischof