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A Description of Our Services

 

Sundays at 8 AM

 

  • The Holy Eucharist  is celebrated without music at 8 a.m. alternating between the traditional (Rite I) and contemporary (Rite II) liturgies.  Healing is offered on third Sundays.

 

Sundays at 10 AM

  • The Holy Eucharist is celebrated at 10 a.m., Rite II, with choir and organ, and some times other instruments. 
  • Healing is offered after the service on the third Sunday of the month.  A fellowship time follows the service.
  • Child care is offered from 9:30 a.m. 

Thursdays at 11:30 AM

 

  • A Healing Eucharist is offered in the Chapel of the Holy Communion.

 

Holy Days

 

  • As announced.

A Description of Our Books

 

The Book of Common Prayer

 

At the English Reformation (after Henry VIII!) the Church in England decided to worship in English.  Latin missals, ordinals etc. were translated and pub-lished in 1549 for the nation to be able to pray "in common."  Political upheavals caused the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) to be banned several times with new versions appearing when Anglican worship was restored.  An American BCP was published in 1789, after the Episcopal Church established itself as separate jurisdiction, replacing the 1662 English BCP.  More recent changes have reflected liturgical reforms in many denominations, notably the switch to contemporary language.  Wherever you go in the worldwide Anglican Communion you will find local versions of the BCP. (To learn more read the 1789 preface on p.9 and the 1549 preface on p.866.)

 

On Sundays at St. Mark's Church we usually turn to the following pages:  p.323 for a Rite I Eucharist, p.355 for a Rite II Eucharist, p.299 for a Baptism, or p.42 for Morning Prayer.  There are alternatives offered for some prayers and we describe these and their page numbers in the service leaflet.  Some of the service may be sung, such as the Sanctus or Morning Prayer canticles.  It is probably easiest just to stay with the BCP and follow the choir for the tune rather than look for the service music in the hymnal.

 

The Hymnal

 

The other book in the pew, aside from the Bible, is The Hymnal 1982 with two sections. First is Service Music, where the numbers are preceded by "S" and give the settings for Morning Prayer and Eucharist.  Second are the Hymns, 1 to 720, which are sorted by season and theme.  Look at the table of Contents at the front of the Hymnal and then flip through the book to see how it is arranged.  Learning to juggle the two books is an old Anglican tradition.