Service Schedule
Regular Services (during the academic year)
Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
10:30 am Holy Eucharist (Choral)
6:00 pm Holy Eucharist (Chapel)
Prayerful Bible Study meets every Sunday in the Parker Room from 9:20 to 10:10 a.m. to read aloud and prayerfully discuss the morning's Gospel passage. Newcomers are welcome.
Wednesday
12:10 pm Holy Eucharist Rite I with Prayers for Healing
July Services
Sunday
9:00 am Holy Eucharist
Prayerful Bible Study meets every Sunday in the Parker Room from 10:10 - 11:00 a.m. to read aloud and prayerfully discuss the morning's Gospel passage. Newcomers are welcome.
Wednesday
12:10 pm Holy Eucharist Rite I with Prayers for Healing
August Services
Sunday
9:00 am Holy Eucharist
Prayerful Bible Study meets every Sunday in the Parker Room from 10:10 - 11:00 a.m. to read aloud and prayerfully discuss the morning's Gospel passage. Newcomers are welcome.
Regular Services resume on September 5, 2010.
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.
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.
6:00 p.m. Sunday, Contemplative Holy Eucharist: (Will resume on September 5th, 2010.) This meditative evening service is held in the Chapel, and includes ten minutes of silence after the sermon for prayer and reflection. Incense is used throughout the service, and the music includes Taize chanting and two familiar hymns. A member of the congregation bakes the bread, and we gather around the altar for Communion. About 20 people currently attend this service, half from the congregation, and half from the Five Colleges. After the service, we offer a light supper and discussion of a Biblical or theological text at the home of two adult leaders. This service is run in cooperation with the diocesan chaplain to campus ministry.
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.
