May 4, 2025, Sunday

Services & Preacher today

• 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I).
• 10am: Holy Eucharist with Hymns (Rite II).
• 10am: Sunday School & Nursery care.
• The Rev. Andrew Mead, Rector Emeritus of Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue is celebrant and preacher. 

 Fellowship & Sunday Events Events

• Coffee Hour follows each service.

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The Livestream is 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 Easter Sunday

• 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.

Music & Lectionary Notes

• Prelude: Easter Meditation by Justin Bischof
• Processional Hymn: #175, Hail thee festival day Salve festa dies
• Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
• First Lesson: Acts 9:1-20
  Gradual: Psalm 30 , Anglican Chant setting by Ray Francis Brown
• Second Lesson: Revelation 5:11-14
• Sequence Hymn: #178, Alleluia, alleuia, give thanks to the risen Lord, Alleluia #1
• Gospel: John 21:1-19
• Offertory Voluntary: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
• 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: Simple Gifts by Aaron Copland 1900-1990
• Postcommunion Hymn: Thine by the glory, Judas Maccabæus
• Processional Voluntary: Easter Toccata Brilliante by Bischof