Services & Preacher this Sunday

  • Said Eucharist (Rite I) is celebrated at 8am .
  • Eucharist with Christmas Carols (Rite II) is celebrated at 10am. Nursery care is offered every Sunday at 10am.
  • 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. Dr. Justin Bischof is away this Sunday. Mr. Nathan Taylor is our substitute organist. There is no choir this Sunday.
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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. 

We continue the Twelve Days of Christmas by singing carols, by hearing of God’s promises in scripture come true for all the earth and by celebrating Emmanuel, God with us, in the mystery of the Mass and in the unity of Christian community.  Christians began celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25 near the beginning of the fourth century.  By the beginning of the fifth century, a midnight celebration on Christmas Eve was held in Rome and spread throughout Western Europe.  Christmas Masses soon became among the most beloved services of the year for Christians.  The gospels of Matthew and Luke both record the story of Christ’s birth.  John’s gospel begins with a proclamation on the meaning of it.  The mystery of God becoming Man in Christ is a fundamental Christian belief.  

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

  • Prelude: Cantilena on “Mendelssohn” by J. Biery 
  • Procession Hymn: 105, God rest you merry gentlemen, God rest you merry
  • Gloria in eleison: 96, Angels we have heard on high, Gloria
  • Old Testament: Isaiah 61:10-62:3
  • Gradual: L-27, Away in manger, Manger 
  • New Testament: Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7
  • Sequence Hymn: 94, While shpeherd watched their flock by night, Winchester Old
  • Gospel: John 1:1-18
  • Offertory Music: Improvisation by Nathan Taylor
  • Offertory Hymn: 115, What child is this, Greensleeves
  • 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 Music: Improvisation on ‘Puer Natus Est’ by E. Titcomb
  • Post-Communion Hymn: 107, Good Christian feeinds rejoice!, In dulci jubilo
  • Processional Postlude:  Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella arr. Keith Chapman 
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