September to June

7:45 am Holy Eucharist Rite I, spoken

9:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II, with music

11:15 am  - Choral Matins
Communion available following this service
Morning Prayer
Second Sunday Every Month

5:00 pm - Choral Evensong
Second Sunday Every Month

 

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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.

The 11:15am service liturgy is an abridged form of Choral Matins, designed to give emphasis to beauty, prayerfulness, and the unique expression of the Psalms. Its mood will be distinct from the other Sunday morning services, and its focus will be in providing a particular experience of sabbath, offering space for solace and reason for strength. Communion from the reserved sacrament is offered each week following this service.

On the second Sunday of the month at 5:00 pm, we offer a service of Choral Evensong. This beautiful service is sung primarily by the officiant and the choir. One observer has described Evensong "as a fragment of the worship which is offered to God by Christian people every hour of the 24 in every part of the world." Evensong provides an opportunity for rest and deep contemplation in a society that never seems to stop.

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Our hope and desire is that each child will grow to be the unique individual God has created him or her to be, identifying and freely using the gifts that God has provided. We encourage families to bring children to Church School as often as possible in order to take full advantageous of our Christian formation offerings. Christian formation is very important to us at The Redeemer. We offer an extensive Christian Formation program for all ages. See the Church School page for details.

Children's Chapel is offered during the 9am service. Children ages 3 through 3rd grade are invited to follow the cross after the reading of the Gospel for a program designed for their level. They return to the service during The Peace.