Service Schedule
During the Academic Year
(September 11, 2011 through June 2012)
Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Liturgy In The Round (Parish Hall)
10:30 am Holy Eucharist (Choral)
Wednesday
12:10 pm Holy Eucharist -- Rite I
with Healing Prayer--Resumes on Sept. 7, 2011
Prayerful Bible Study meets every Sunday in the Parker Room from 9:20 - 10:10 a.m. to read aloud and prayerfully discuss the morning's Gospel passage. Newcomers are welcome.
Rector's Contemplative Bible Study each Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in the Parker Room in the Old Rectory. This is a time for quiet meditation on the Gospel reading for the coming Sunday. Resumes on September 12, 2011
In July and August there is only one service each week
Sunday
9:30 am Holy Eucharist
About the Services
8 a.m. Sunday, Holy Eucharist: This service uses the same Rite II or Enriching our Worship liturgy as the 10:30 service does, but is quieter and somewhat more low-key. About 70 people attend this service, including families with children. The liturgy is spoken. The same sermon is preached as at the later service, and we enjoy an organ prelude and postlude, and two hymns for congregational singing. Clergy are assisted by acolytes, Lay Eucharistic Ministers, and lectors. If you like to worship in a quieter setting, this is the service for you.
9:00 a.m. Liturgy in the Round. This is a simplified service of Word and Sacrament intended to be a way into our fellowship of prayer, witness, and service. It features music from the Taize and Iona communities. It ends by 9:35 to allow children and families time to take part in Sunday School (which runs from 9:40 to 10:20 a.m.).
10:30 a.m. Sunday, Holy Eucharist: This is a full choral service with a choir anthem at the offertory and five hymns. Up to 200 people attend, including families with young children, for whom there is a choice of child care or the use of the Children’s Corner at the back of the church. During the offertory hymn, the children bring up to the altar the weekly offering of food for the Amherst Survival Center. At the close of the service, Lay Eucharistic Visitors are sent out with Communion for the sick and housebound, and there are prayers at the front of the church for those seeking healing.
Coffee hour follows both services. Please don't be shy about making introductions.
12:10 p.m., Wednesday, Holy Eucharist: This mid-week service uses a Rite I liturgy and includes a short homily. The Prayers of the People are drawn from a Liturgy of Healing, and anyone who wishes may come to the altar rail to receive anointing with holy oil and the laying on of hands for healing.
