Services & Preacher this Sunday

  • Said Eucharist (Rite I) is celebrated at 8am .
  • Eucharist with Christmas Carols (Rite II) is celebrated at 10am. Sunday School & Nursery care are offered every Sunday at 10am.
  • Said Eucharist (Rite II) is celebrated at 5pm .
  • 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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  • Coffee hour or refreshments follows every service. 
  • Confirmation Class at 5pm (Church/Library)

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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.  

There are several options for the Gospel on the Second Sunday of Christmas. Two of these passages, "The Epiphany" and "The Flight to Egypt", are from the Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 2. Rather than tell part of the story and so that the congregation can hear the entire account of Herod, the Magi, and the Holy Family's travels, we are reading the entire second chapter of Matthew. 

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

  • Prelude: Puer natus in Bethlehem BWV 603, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 616, and Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf BWV 617 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  • Procession Hymn: 102, Once in royal David's city, Irby
  • Gloria in eleison: 89, It came upon a midnight clear, Carol
  • Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:7-14
  • Gradual: 112, In the bleak midwinter, Cranham
  • New Testament: Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a
  • Sequence Hymn: 119, As with gladness men of old, Dix
  • Gospel: Matthew 2
  • Offertory Anthem: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning by Malcolm Archer b 1952
  • Offertory Hymn: 109, The first Nowell the angel did say, The First Nowell
  • 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: Stars of the East by Alan Bullard b 1947
  • Post-Communion Hymn: 128, We three kings of Orient are bearing gifts, Three Kings of Orient
  • Processional Postlude:  Three Kings Toccata by Bischof 
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