August 24, 2025, Sunday

Services & Preacher today

• 8am: Holy Eucharist (Rite I).
• 10am: Holy Baptism & the Holy Eucharist with Hymns (Rite II).
• The Rev. Claire Woodley-Aitchison is our celebrant and Preacher.
• Mr. Nathan Taylor will be guest organist at the 10am.

 Fellowship & Sunday Events Events

• After each service we will have Coffee Hour in the Library.
• Nursery Care is offered at 10am.
• Sunday School and our Choirs have recessed for the summer.

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The 10am Livestream link is above.
• Livestreams for 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 Worship Today

• Bartholomew is one of the twelve Apostles known in the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke only by name. His name means “Son of Tolmai,” and he is sometimes identified with Nathanael, the friend of Philip, the “Israelite without guile” in John’s Gospel, to whom Jesus promised the vision of angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man. There is a tradition that Bartholomew traveled to India, and Eusebius reports that when Pantaenus of Alexandria visited India, between 150 and 200, he found there “the Gospel according to Matthew” in Hebrew, which had been left behind by “Bartholomew, one of the Apostles.” An ancient tradition maintains that Bartholomew was flayed alive at Albanopolis in Armenia. His feast day is always August 24.

• 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 at 10am

• Prelude : Solemn Melody   Henry Walford Davies 1869-1941
• Processional Hymn: #516, Come down, O Love divine, Down Ampney
• Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
• First Lesson: Deuteronomy 18:15-18
• Gradual: Psalm 91:1-4
• Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 4:4-15
• Sequence Hymn: #8, Morning has broken, Alec Wyton (b.1921)
• Gospel: Luke 22:24-30
• Offertory Voluntary: Passacaglie (Death of Falstaff)   William Walton  1902-1983
• Offertory Doxology: #380, vs 3, Old 100th
• Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-130 from Deutsche Messe, Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828); arr. Richard Proulx (b. 1937)
• Agnus Dei: #S-161 From New Plainsong; David Hurd (b. 1950)
• Communion Voluntary: Adagio (Smyhony No. 3)    Louis Vierne 1870-1937 
• Postcommunion Hymn: #397, Now thank we all our God, Nun danket alle Gott, melody Johan Cruger (1598-1162); harm. William Henry Monk (1823-1889), after Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947)
• Processional Voluntary: Festival Voluntary, Fraciscus Florentinus Peeters 1903-1986)