Services & Preacher this Sunday

  • Said Eucharist (Rite I) is celebrated at 8am .
  • Choral Eucharist (Rite II) with Parish Choir is celebrated at 10am. Sunday School and Nursery care are offered every Sunday at 10am.
  • Our Christmas Pageant is at 5pm today.
  • Our Celebrant and Preacher today is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector.  Deacon Emerita Katie Lawrence will be with us at 10:00am, Deacon Chisara Alimole is away on a mission trip in Nigeria.
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 Fellowship & Afternoon Events

  • Coffee hour or refreshments follows every service. 
  • 11am Dessert Auction for Outreach Funding
  • 5pm Christmas Pageant

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About Today's Service

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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. 

Advent is the season in which the Christian Church waits and watches for the coming of Jesus Christ.  Through scripture, song and silence we hear again the story of God’s people who longed for a Savior.  Living in the reality that Jesus Christ has indeed come, that he has died and that he has risen, we await for his coming again in glory.  Blue vestments are worn at Christ Church throughout Advent, and the Advent Wreath, which is hung above the sanctuary, marks each passing week with an additional lighted candle.  Throughout the Sundays of Advent Gloria in excelsis, “Glory to God in the highest,” is suppressed as the opening song of praise, in its place is Kyrie eleison, “Lord, have mercy.”  The Episcopal Church offers four blessings for the season of Advent, one for each Sunday; these blessings are from the Book of Occasional Services.  The new liturgical year begins on the First Sunday of Advent: we are now in Year C; the gospel reading appointed most Sundays in Year C is from the Gospel according to Luke. 

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

  • Prelude: Variations on Gabriel’s Message by Justin Bischof
  • Procession Hymn: 72, Hark! the glad sound! the Savior comes, Richmond
  • Kyria in eleison: S91, from Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
  • Old Testament: Micah 5:2-5a
  • Gradual: Torches by John Jubert (1927-1919)
  • New Testament: HEbrews 10:5-10
  • Sequence Hymn: 265, The Angel Gabriel from heaven came, Gabriel's Message
  • Gospel: Luke 1:39-55
  • Offertory Anthem: A Babe is Born by William Mathias 1934-1992
  • Offertory Hymn: 56, vs 7-8, O Come, O come Emmanuel, Veni, veni, Emmanuel
  • 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: Angelus ad virginem, 14th cent arr.  David Wilcocks
  • Post-Communion Hymn: 93, Angels from the realms of glory, Regent Square
  • Processional Postlude:  In dulci jubilo BWV 729 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
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