Services & Preacher today

  • 8:45am: Various Baroque Offerings by the Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra directed by Dr. Justin Bischof
  • 9:00am: The Holy Eucharist (Rite II) with Children's Choir, Parish Choir, and Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra. 
  • 11:00am: Various Baroque Offerings by the Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra directed by Dr. Justin Bischof
  • 11:15am: The Holy Eucharist (Rite II) with Parish Choir, and Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra. 
  • Our Celebrant and Preacher is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector.  

 Fellowship Events

  • Between our services (from about 10:15am to 11:00am) we have the Great Easter Egg Hunt for 2000 Easter Eggs on our Field.
  • Meanwhile, in the Parish Hall between services we also have festive potluck coffee hour.   

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About the Easter Sunday

  • Today is Easter Day, the Sunday of the Resurrection.  The central Christian belief is that Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead.  In our worship this is not a past or an abstract reality.  The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is remembered and made present in our worship and in our common life.  “Jesus Christ, yesterday and today, the Beginning and End, Alpha and Omega.  His are all times and ages.  To him be glory and dominion through all eternity.”  “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 date of Easter, though a matter of controversy at different points in history, has always been connected with the conjunction of the lunar and solar calendars.  For Western Christians, Easter Day is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox.  Easter Day cannot be earlier than March 22 or later than April 25. 

  • 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: Various Baroque Offerings by the Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra
  • Processional Hymn: #207, Jesus Christ is risen today, Easter Hymn
  • Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
  • First Lesson: Acts 10:34-43
    Gradual: Hear I am Lord by Dan Schutte/Orchestrated by Justin Bischof 
  • Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26
  • Sequence Hymn: #174, At the Lamb''s high feast we sing, Salzburg
  • Gospel: John 20:1-18
  • Offertory Anthem: Worthy is the Lamb (Messiah) by George Frederic Handel 1685-1769
  • Offertory Dxology: #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: This Joyful Eastertide by Woodward/VRUECHTEN
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #180, He is risen, Unser Herrscher
  • Processional Voluntary: Toccata (Symphony No. 5) by Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

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