Services this Sunday

  • 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I).
  • 10am: Choral Eucharist with Parish Choir (Rite II). Sunday School & Nursery care are offered every Sunday at 10am. Our Celebrant and Preacher for both morning services is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector.  
  • 5pm: Choral Evensong (Rite I). Our Preacher for Evensong is the Rev. Canon Alissa Newton, Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of New York. Confirmation Class Students will serve as readers and ushers for Evensong

 Fellowship & Afternoon Events

  • 11am: Special Reception to Meet Patricia Pardini, Artist in Residence for January-February. 
  • 5:45pm: Pizzeria Night in Hoag Hall follows Evensong. Please RSVP to Pizzeria Night.

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A Warm Welcome at Evensong

  • Tonight for Choral Evensong at 5pm we welcome as our preacher the Reverend Canon Alissa Newton, Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of New York. Canon Newton has served our diocese since March 1, 2024. Prior to that she served as Canon for Congregational Development & Leadership formation for the Diocese of Olympia and as Vicar of Saint Columba’s Church in Kent,  Washington. 

About Today's Services

  • 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. 
  • Tonight we offer a sung service of Evening Prayer called Evensong. Evensong has been offered for nearly 600 years in Anglican and Episcopal cathedrals, city churches, and country parishes around the world. The format for Anglican Evensong can be traced directly to the first Book of Common Prayer and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who crafted robust services of Morning Prayer (Matins) and Evening Prayer (Evensong) from the smaller monastic offices that had been in use before the Reformation. Anglican Evensong is often the last major service on a Sunday and is said or sung by and for the people. Evensong often includes a sermon, familiar evening hymns, and, when possible, a choir. Tonight’s service is Rite I from the Book of Common Prayer 1979. 
  • We gather to celebrate the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple, also known as Candlemas.  Like the rites of Holy Week, the Feast of the Presentation and its candle lighting rite seem to have evolved in the fourth century Church in Jerusalem, when it first became legal in the Roman Empire for the Church to be public in its witness.  The Church links the prophecy of the coming of the Lord to his temple with the Gospel account of Jesus being presented in the temple. The candle lighting service will take place this evening at 5:00 pm.

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

  • Prelude: Cathédrales by Louis Vierne 1870-1937
  • Procession Hymn: 517, How lovely is thy dwelling place, Brother Jame's Air
  • Gloria in eleison: 421, All glory by to God on high, Allein Gott in der Höh
  • Old Testament: Malachi 3:1-4
  • Gradual: Psalm 27:7-10
  • New Testament: Hebrews 2:14-18
  • Sequence Hymn: 436, Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates, Truro
  • Gospel: Luke 2:22-40
  • Offertory Anthem: Panis Angelicus by César Franck1822-1890
  • Offertory Hymn: 380, vs 3, Praise God , from whom all blessings flow, Old 100th
  • 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: Simple Gifts by Aaron Copland 1900-1990
  • Post-Communion Hymn: 324, Let all mortal flesh keep silence, Picardy
  • Processional Postlude: Gigue Fugue BWV 577 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 5pm Choral Evensong

  • Prelude & Processional: Improvisation by Justin Bischof
  • Pros hilaron: Glad light of worship, Caelites plaudant
  • Psalter: Psalm 87
  • Old Testament: Haggai 2:1-9
  • Canticle: Magnificat in C by Charles Villier Stanford 1852-1924
  • New Testament: Luke 2:22-40
  • Canticle: Nunc dimittis in C by Charles Villier Stanford 1852-1924
  • Office Hymn: Sing we of the blessed mother, Abbot's Leigh
  • Offertoring Anthem: Jubilate Deo by Benjamin Britten 1913-1976
  • Processional Postlude: Improvisation by Justin Bischof

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