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Services & Preacher

  • 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I)
  • 6pm: Choral Eucharist (Rite II)
  • The Rev. Andrew C. Mead is celebrant and preacher this morning.  

Events & Fellowship

  • 10am Sunday School & Nursey Care
  • Coffee Hour follows both services

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About Worship Today

  • Lent is the season when the Church prepares to celebrate Holy Baptism at the Easter Triduum.  During Lent the Church invites her members to participate in the works of the Spirit that will help bring to faith those who are preparing to die and to rise in Christ. For those who are already baptized, prayer, penance and active works of mercy are the ordinary means by which the Christian community helps its members prepare for the Triduum. According to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, 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.  

    Throughout Lent our service begins with a Penitential Rite. On the First Sunday in Lent the Great Litany is offered as the Penitential Rite. On the other Sundays in Lent the Penitential Rite is the Confession and Decalogue.  

  • 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: Christie, aller Welt Trost BWV 670 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  • Processional: #S-67, The Great Litany
  • First Lesson: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
  • Gradual: Psalm 32, Anglican Chant by Bryan Hesford.
  • Second Lesson: Romans 5:12-19
  • Sequence Hymn: #142, Lord who throughout these forty days, St. Flavian
  • Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11
  • Offertory Anthem: O Saviour of the World by John Goss 1800-1880
  • 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: Ave Verum by William Byrd 1543-1623
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #150, Forty days and forty nights, Aus der Tiefe rufe ich (Heinlein)
  • Processional Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 by Bach
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