April 13, 2025, Sunday

Services & Preacher this Sunday

• 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I). The service includes the Blessing of Palms and the Passion according to Luke.
• 10am: Choral Eucharist with Parish Choir (Rite II). . The service begins in the Garden and includes the Blessing of Palms, Procession, and the Passion according to Luke.
• 10am: Sunday School & Nursery care.
• Our Celebrant and Preacher for all servcies today is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector.  

 Fellowship & Afternoon Events

• Coffe Hour / Reception follows each service.

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The 10am 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 Today's Service

• 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 at 8am and 10am, occasionally Sundays at 5pm, and also on Holy Days and other occasions. The 10am celebration of the Holy Eucharist includes organ music, congregational hymnody, and during the academic year psalms, anthems, and motets sung by our choir.
• The Sunday of the Passion was the Church’s first “Good Friday.”  This celebration continues to this day.  Since the fourth century the Church has also celebrated the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on the Sunday before he was crucified.  In the Episcopal Church this day is known as “The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday.”  The liturgy this morning recalls both the final entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem and his death on the cross and burial.  Following the Blessing of Palms, the congregation processes into the church where the Passion is celebrated at the Holy Eucharist. The Sunday of the Passion begins Holy Week, which culminates in the Easter Triduum.  Today Christian communities begin to prepare in earnest for the celebration of Easter.  At sunset on Thursday of this week the Church concludes our season of preparation, Lent, and enters its most sacred days, the Easter Triduum (TRIH-djoo-um – “Three Days”).  The Easter Triduum, the celebration of the Lord’s Passover, is the center of the Church’s life. 

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

• Prelude: Bagpipes
• Palm Gospel: Luke 19:28-40
• Procession to from the Garden to the Church: Bagpipes
• Entrance Hymn: Ride on! ride on in majesty! Winchester New
• Processional Hymn: #154, All glory, laud, and honor, Valet will ich dir geben
• Old Testament: Isaiah 50:4-9a
• Gradual: Psalm 31:9-16 set to plainchant VII.3
• New Testament: Philippians 2:5-11
• Sequence Hymn: #158, Ah, holy Jesus, Herzliebster Jesu
• The Passion: Luke 22-23
• Offertory Anthem: Christus factus est by Anton Bruckner 1824-1896
• Offertory Improvisation
• Sanctus & Benedictus: S114 from Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
• Agnus Dei: S158 from Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
• Communion Anthem: O vos omnes by Pablo Casals 1876-1873
• Post-Communion Hymn: #168, O sacred head, sore wounded, Herzlich tut mich verlangen [Passion Chorale]
• Processional Postlude: O Sacred Head Lament by Justin Bischof