April 6, 2025, Sunday

Services & Preacher this Sunday

• 8am: Said Eucharist (Rite I).
• 10am: Choral Eucharist with Children's Choir & Parish Choir (Rite II).
• 10am: Sunday School & Nursery care.
• 5pm: Said Eucharist (Rite II). 
• Our Celebrant for all servcies today is the Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector.  
• Our Preacher at 8am and 10am is Michael Moynihan, Director of Adult Christian Education.

 Fellowship & Afternoon Events

• Coffe Hour / Reception follows each service.
• 5pm: Confirmation Class (Church/Library)

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The 10am Livestream is ABOVE.
• Livestreams for all of today's services and all prior weeks can be found HERE. Note - if you expereince any issues with the 10am live stream, click here.

About Today's Service

• 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.
• 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.  

Music & Lectionary Notes for the 10am Choral Eucharist

• Prelude: Lenten Variations by Justin Bischof
• Processional Hymn: #693, Just as I am, without one plea, Woodworth
• Kyrie eleison: #S-91, from Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Healey Willan (1880-1968)
• Old Testament: Isaiah 43:16-21
• Gradual: Psalm 126 set to plainchant tonne I.1
• New Testament: Philippians 3:4b-14
• Sequence Hymn: #662, Abide with me, Eventide
• Gospel: John 12:1-8
• Offertory Anthem: Ave Verum by William Byrd 1543-1623
• Offertory Improvisation
• 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: Drop, drop slow tears by Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625
• Post-Communion Hymn: #473*, Lift high the cross, Crucifer (*1st verse from Hymns III)
• Processional Postlude: Lenten Farewell Pavanne by Justin Bischof