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After the Mass there is usually coffee and snacks provided in the Parish Hall, this is an excellent chance to meet us and get any questions answered.
Wheelchair access is available and we are pleased to accommodate any special needs. A call to the Parish Office is suggested to allow us to have a guide to meet you in the parking lot to ensure your comfort. |
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This page is dedicated to insuring that visitors to our normal Sunday Service feel as welcome as we can make them. Entrance to the Church is through the door at the top of the stairs at 212 Washington St. NE. The service starts promptly at 10 AM. There is a small font of Holy Water immediately inside the door on the right hand side. The will be an Usher to meet you and provide a bulletin for the service. The Bulletin contains the order of the service and shows the numbers of the hymns selected for day. The Usher will be pleased to answer any questions you may have. Should it be that the visitor has no experience with Anglo Catholic Worship, you may ask the Usher to introduce you to some experienced member of the Congregation to act as Guide. Unless the Church is unusually crowded the Usher will invite you to seat yourself wherever you wish. The service (Mass) is normally less than seventy five minutes in length, The Mass starts with Processional Hymn and Ends with a prayer after the Recessional Hymn. The course of the service is governed by the American Book of Common Prayer of 1928. Generally the service progress through a series of prayers, a lesson (usually an Epistle) followed by a Gospel Reading, a recitation of the Nicene Creed and a Homily or Sermon (seldom more than 15 minutes). After the Sermon an Offertory is followed by Consecration and Holy Communion A Mass Book, Similar to one pictured at right, is in each pew and it contains the details of the service including the service music. The Mass Book is available on line here (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
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