Celebrate Ascension Day with our Father Matt's Steakhouse Night at 6pm. We will have more than 30 pounds of prime rib eye steak, cooked to order by Father Matt and as much steak as you can eat. We will also have a baked potato bar, caprese salad (tomatoes, mozzarella, basil), and a selection of cheeses, desserts, red and white wines, beer, and soda. $25 per person, children and teens are free.  PLEASE RSVP

The Feast is followed by Mass with Hymns at 7:30pm. 

If you were confirmed or received at Christ Church, you eat for free at Fr. Matt's Steakhouse Night!  BUT YOU STILL NEED TO RSVP.

Services & Preacher

• 7:30pm: Eucharist with Hymns
• Preacher: Michael Moynihan

Events & Fellowship

• 6:00pm: Fr. Matt's Steakhouse Night (Hoag Hall)

Readings, Acolytes & Livesteamer

• Readers: Erik Ipsen & Carol Ipsen 
• Acolytes: Alison Hinds-Pearl
• Livestreamer: TBD

Altar Flowers

• The altar flowers are given to the glory of God.

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Livestream Feeds and Bulletins

• PDFs of Service Leaflets are available below.
• The Livestream link for thre EARLY SERVICE is below.
• Livestreams for all of today's services and all prior weeks can be found HERE.

About Worship Today

• Today is Ascension Day.  According to the Acts of the Apostles, our Lord Jesus Christ was present to his disciples for forty days after his resurrection.  On the fortieth day he ascended to heaven and took his place at the right hand of the Father.  Today the Church celebrates this event, the Ascension.  In the Episcopal Church it is one of our seven “Principal Feasts.”  Easter, the Church’s greatest season, does not end today, but lasts for fifty days and concludes on the Day of Pentecost.  

• 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: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Pére by Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992, (Majesty of Christ praying that His Father should glorify Him) Ascension Suite Movement I
• Processional:  #494, Crown him with many crowns, Diademata
• Gloria in excelsis: Robert Powell (b. 1932), rev.
• The First Lesson: Acts 1:1-11
• Gradual: Psalm 93
• The Second Lesson: Ephesians 1:15-23
• Sequence Hymn: #214, Hail the day that sees him rise , Llanfair
• Gospel: Luke 24:44-53
• Offertory: Organ improvisation
• Offertory Doxology: #380, vs 3, Old 100th
• Sanctus & Benedictus: #S-125 from A Community Mass by Richard Proulx (b. 1937)
• Agnus Dei: #S-163 by Robert Powell (b. 1932)
• Communion: Organ improvisation
• Postcommunion Hymn: #483, The head that once was crowned with throrns, St. Magnus
• Processional: Ascension Postlude Bischof