Services & Preacher today

  • 8am: Holy Eucharist (Rite I).
  • 10am: Choral Eucharist (Rite II).
  • The Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead , Rector, is our celebrant and Preacher.
  • Our Parish Choir season resumes today!

 Fellowship & Sunday Events Events

  • Sunday School at 10am (please arrive in the Parish Hall by 9:55am this week)
  • Nursery Care is offered at 10am.
  • Coffee Hour follows the 8am.
  • Walter's Hot Dogs will cater our Kickoff Celebration Party after the 10am service. 

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About Worship Today

  • Saint Matthew is remembered as being one of the Twelve called by Jesus, as well as the author of the Gospel according to Matthew. Post-biblical traditions claim that Saint Matthew travelled as a missionary to Ethiopia and Persia. His bones were supposedly brought from Ethiopia to Salerno, and the Cathedral of Salerno was built over his tomb there. That Cathedral was dedicated on September 21, 1084. Saint Matthew’s Gospel provides of a wealth of material that is not found in the other Gospels, such as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (including the Beatitudes), the Parable of the Last Judgement (“Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me.”), the story of Magi following the Star, and much more. We are told by Christ in Saint Matthew’s Gospel to “be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect”.

  • 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 at 10am

  • Prelude : Prelude in D BWV 532 by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
  • Processional Hymn: #518, Christ is made the sure foundation, Westminster Abbey
  • Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
  • First Lesson: Proverbs 3:1-6
  • Gradual: Psalm 119:33-40 sung by the Parish Choir to an Anglican chant by John Jones
  • Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 3:14-17
  • Sequence Hymn: #482, Lord of all hopefulness, Slane
  • Gospel: Matthew 9:9-13
  • Offertory Anthem: Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound by George Frederic Handel 1685-1759
  • Offertory Doxology: #380, vs 3, Old 100th
  • Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-130 from Deutsche Messe, Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828); arr. Richard Proulx (b. 1937)
  • Agnus Dei: #S-161 From New Plainsong; David Hurd (b. 1950)
  • Communion Anthem: O Taste and See by Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #460, Alleluia, sing to Jesus, Hyfrydol
  • Processional Voluntary: Fugue in G BWV “Gigue” BWV 577 by Bach