Sundays

Summer Schedule begins June 2
through September 8

  8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I, spoken

10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II, with music

Regular Season Sunday Schedule
September to June

7:45 am Holy Eucharist Rite I, spoken

9:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II, with music

11:15 am 1st Sunday of the month - Holy Eucharist
2nd & 4th Sunday - Choral Matins
3rd & 5th Sunday - Morning Prayer

Differences in the Sunday Morning Worship Serivces

By Peter Vanderveen

The worship of The Episcopal Church is richly varied in substance and style. In keeping with this richness, we provide three different experiences of worship each Sunday.

The 7:45am service is a meditative celebration of the Eucharist in the more formal language of Rite One. Its consistent rhythm as a spoken service provides a simple yet grounded recitation of our faith.

The 9:00am service is more robust and proclamatory in its pageantry, music, and variation. We use different expressions of the Eucharistic liturgy, and at regular intervals we observe appointed feasts for saints of the church in a simplified intergenerational service.

For the past year, our 11:15am service has been Choral Matins, a predominantly sung service of Morning Prayer led by the choir. For many years Morning Prayer was the standard Sunday service within The Episcopal Church. With the revision of the Prayer Book, however, the Eucharist became the primary liturgy for Sundays, and Morning Prayer was returned to its original place as part of a daily discipline of private prayer. For many, this meant that the prayers of this office were effectively lost. At The Redeemer we are privileged to be able to keep this service as part of our Sunday worship.

In accord with the expressed desires of the people who regularly attend this service, we have decided to make a few changes to our worship at this hour.

• The first Sunday each month will be Eucharist. The liturgy will be taken from the New Zealand Prayer Book. This service was first done at The Redeemer during the renovations of the Church and was highly regarded.

• The third (and fifth) Sunday each month will be Morning Prayer, a return to a largely spoken service with hymns and a reduced choir.

• The second and fourth Sunday each month will be a continuation of Choral Matins.

By initiating this schedule we hope to broaden the appeal of this service, meet the varied needs of those who would have difficulty attending an earlier service, and give fuller voice to the wealth of our tradition.

Celebrating the Communion of the Saints 2012-13
During our church year, we will be celebrating the Communion of the Saints by highlighting some of the saints (or “God’s faithful”) who have gone before us. On these specific saints’ feast days, the readings and the hymnody will celebrate the contributions these saints have made to the Christian life. As we honor our saints, we are reminded how we, too, participate in this great cloud of witnesses through our worship and mission in this life as well as the next. Please plan to be present for these festive days.

Oct. 21        St. James of Jerusalem

Nov. 18        C. S. Lewis

Jan. 20        St. Agnes

Children’s Liturgy
You may have noticed by now that every Sunday a youth bulletin has been printed since Easter. This bulletin is geared towards children fifth grade and over. It explains how the liturgy is put together, what the liturgy means, and how we can participate in the liturgy more fully. During this school year, the younger children who attend children’s chapel during sermon time, will receive intentional instruction by the clergy as we walk more deeply through the Eucharistic liturgy. They will have the chance to ask questions about things like the Confession, the Nicene Creed, and the Eucharist at their level. Please plan to have your children ready to attend on these special days. (Oct. 2, Oct. 30, Dec. 4, Jan. 15, Feb. 5, Mar. 11, Apr. 22)

Book Cart
Children may borrow books, soft toys or pages to color from the Book Cart in the Narthex and return them after the service.

Children's Chapel
During the 9am service, Children's Chapel is offered for elementary age children. After the Gospel is read, children follow the crucifer to the Chapel next to the main worship space, where they gather for a children's homily and prayers. They return to the main service during the Peace.

Younger Children during Worship
Children age 3 (and potty trained) through Grade K attend Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Level I (see Catechesis I section) from 9 to 11 am. On three Sundays of the year, they participate in the Children’s Liturgy during the 9 am service and then attend Catechesis at 10:15.

For the youngest ones (infant through two or three years old), child care is available each Sunday in the Nursery (see Nursery section) from 8:30 to 11:30 am The hours of Nursery care may be extended to begin at 7:30 am or end at 12:30 pm with advance notice to the caregivers or Tory Kline.

Wednesdays

12:15 pm Holy Eucharist, Rite II