Sunday morning at Epiphany is designed to be a two-hour experience that includes a combination of worship, fellowship, and classes. It can be thought of in one of two ways: the 8:00 am or the 10:30 am Epiphany experience.
8:00 am
WORSHIP 8:00 am–9:00 am
COFFEE AND FELLOWSHIP 9:00 am–9:15 am
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION For all age groups, 9:15 am–10:15 am
The service of Holy Eucharist at 8:00 am reflects the more traditional heritage of the Anglican Church. The language is closer to that which has been used for hundreds of years, and the Eucharistic prayer has a greater sense of atonement and redemption. To that end, Christ’s sacrifice for the world is pronounced as the high point of the Eucharistic prayer. In the Book of Common Prayer, this service is called Holy Eucharist Rite One. The service has one soloist from the choir leading the chants and hymns and singing the anthem. The sermon is identical to the one given at 10:30 am.
10:30 am
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION For all age groups, 9:15 am–10:15 am
WORSHIP 10:30 am–11:30 am
COFFEE AND FELLOWSHIP 11:30 am–noon
The 10:30 am service is a choral Eucharist, lead by the Epiphany choir and at times accompanied by one of our two children’s choirs. This is also the service lead by a verger, acolytes, and a number of Eucharistic ministers. In the Book of Common Prayer this service is called Holy Eucharist Rite Two. The Eucharistic prayer varies based on the liturgical season, but as a whole it carries language that is gender-inclusive and focused on both Jesus’ saving love for us and on our partnership with God in redeeming the world. Childcare is offered during this service. Children through fourth grade attend Sunday School during the first part of the service and then enter the church for the Liturgy of the Table. After the service they return to their Sunday School classrooms, where their parents pick them up.
RHYTHMS OF THE YEAR
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our lives according to the liturgical calendar joins us to Christ. The liturgical year is the process of slow, sure immersion in the life of Christ that, in the end, allows us to make claim upon the life that God imagines we can live. The rhythms of the liturgy implant within each of us the reprise of those moments that are the substance of faith. And, they initiate a process of reflecting on our entire self. These are the seasons of the Christian year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter and Pentecost.
These six seasons can be thought of in two parts: the Advent, Christmas, Epiphany cycle, and the Lent, Easter, Pentecost cycle. The first cycle covers about one quarter of our calendar year and is focused on the incarnation—that is, the birth of Jesus—and how God’s presence with us in this world focuses our attention on mercy and justice. Advent anticipates the presence of Jesus, Christmas celebrates the incarnate presence of Jesus, and Epiphany is the season in which we focus our lives on a world transformed by Jesus.
The Lent, Easter, Pentecost cycle covers three quarters of the calendar year and focuses on our eternal communion with the resurrected Christ. Lent anticipates Christ’s death and resurrection, Easter celebrates the resurrected Christ in our midst, and Pentecost is the season of living our life as it will be for eternity. The cycle of incarnation is about our work to bring mercy and justice to this day and time. The cycle of resurrection is about character formation for our eternal work with God. Each cycle, with its different emphasis, has the same impact—that the love of Christ is more fully known in our lives and and in the world.