Services & Preacher this morning

  • 8am: Holy Eucharist (Rite I).
  • 10am: Choral Eucharist (Rite II).
  • The Rev. Dr. Meredith Hawkins, Priest Associate, is celebrant.
  • The Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector, is preacher.

Services & Preacher this afternoon
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  • 4pm: Choral Evensong (Rite I).
  • The Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector, is officiant.
  • The Rev. Christian M. Wood, is preacher.

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 each morning service.
  • Pizzeria & Billiards Night follows Choral Evensong

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About Worship Today

  • This period in the Church year is known as “The Season after Pentecost” or “Ordinary Time.”  The term “ordinary” refers to how the New Testament passages are generally read in order or in sequence, as opposed to being arranged by specific theme as in other seasons.  During this season the Gospel passages focus on the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and how he is revealed to the world as the Christ.  In Year C (the third in a three year cycle: A, B & C) most of the Gospel passages are from the Gospel according to Luke.  The Old Testament Lesson reads through the Pentateuch in sequence.  The New Testament Lesson is independent of these readings and is almost always taken from one of the Letters in the New Testament that reflects the common life and mission of the first Christian community. 

  • 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 : Toccata in d by Max Reger 1873-1916
  • Processional Hymn: #410, Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, Lauda anima
  • Gloria in excelsis: #S-280, Glory to God in the highest by Robert Powell
  • First Lesson: Amos 6:1a, 4-7
  • Gradual: Psalm 146 sung by the Parish Choir to an Anglican chant by Edward Cuthbert Bairstow. 
  • Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 6:7-19
  • Sequence Hymn: #618, Ye watchers and ye holy ones, Lasst uns erfreuen
  • Gospel: Luke 16:19-31
  • Offertory Anthem: Locus Iste by Anton Bruckner 1824-1896
  • 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: Ave Verum by Edward Elgar 1857-1934
  • Postcommunion Hymn: #324, Let all mortal flesh keep silence, Picardy
  • Processional Voluntary: Fugue in d Op. 59 by Reger

Dr. J’s Music Notes

  • Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra.
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