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Services & Preacher

  • 7am: Said Eucharist with Ashes
  • 12pm: Said Eucharist with Ashes
  • 6pm: Choral Eucharist with Ashes
  • Father Matt is celebrant at all services and is preaching at 7am and 12pm. Mother Meredith is preaching at 6pm.

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About Worship Today

  • Lent is the season when the Church prepares for Easter.  During Lent the Church invites her members to participate in prayer, penance and active works of mercy.  Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and it is observed with a special penitential order.  Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of blessing ashes made from palm branches blessed on the previous year’s Palm Sunday and placing them on the heads of participants to the accompaniment of the words “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”. Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days (40 fasting days, if the 6 Sundays, which are not days of fast, are excluded) before Easter and can fall as early as 4 February or as late as 10 March.   Jesus Christ spent 40 days fasting in the desert, where he endured temptation by Satan. Lent may have originated as a mirroring of this, fasting 40 days as preparation for Easter. Every Sunday (including each Sunday in Lent) is observed as a Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, commemorating his resurrection, and thus every Sunday is considered a feast day on which fasting is inappropriate.  Christians are called by the Church to observe the ordinary weekdays of Lent by special acts of discipline and self-denial in commemoration of the crucifixion of the Lord.  In addition, the ordinary Fridays of Lent are traditionally days of abstinence from flesh meats.  Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are traditionally days of strict fasting and abstinence.  

  • 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: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV 622 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  • Processional Hymn: #150, Forty days and forty night, Aus der Tiefe rufe ich (Heinlein)
  • First Lesson: Joel 2:1-2-12-17
  • Gradual: Psalm 103, Plainchant VIII.2
  • Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
  • Sequence Hymn: #149, Eternal Lord of love, Old 124th
  • Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
  • Imposition of Ashes: Psalm 51, Plainchant IV.1
  • Offertory Anthem: Call to Remembrance, O Lord by Richard Farrant c. 1525-30 - 1580
  • Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-114 From Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
  • Agnus Dei: #S-158 From Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
  • Communion: Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord by Farrant
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #143, The glory of theswe fourty days, Erhalt uns, Herr
  • Processional Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit BWV 669 by Bach
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