Worship Services
If you come to Grace Church:
- Wearing a mask is optional. It is no longer mandatory, but mask wearing is welcome. We affirm and support any and all who will continue to wear masks. Some may do so for personal health reasons, or for the benefit of someone in their life whose health is compromised, or because they feel safer wearing a mask. No one has to explain their choice. As a community of faith we are to respect one another’s choices and decisions in this matter. Masks will be available at the door, if you need one.
- The Ushers will pass the collection plates during the offertory hymn.
- All pews will be open, and pews may have to be shared. You may sit wherever and with whomever you would like in the pews, but please be considerate of one another, especially of varying comfort levels around preferred amount of social distance.
- During the Peace, please remain in your pew and greet others from there. The peace can be exchanged without handshaking or hugging. It is strongly recommended not to shake hands or hug anyone, except perhaps members of one’s immediate household.
- For those who wish to receive the Eucharist, Bread and Wine will be offered from two stations, one at the front and one in the back of the church. If you are unable to come to one of the stations to receive communion, we will come to you where you are seated at the end of Holy Communion. Having wine is not mandatory. Bread alone is full and sufficient. If you would like to partake of the wine, diocesan guidelines only permit drinking from the chalice. Intinction – the dipping of the bread into the wine – is not allowed.
- There will be singing, and all are welcome to sing.
- The bathrooms in the Old Rectory and on the lower level of the Connector will be open.
Sunday services will be livestreamed to YouTube, meaning you can watch them as they happen.
To attend online services, please use the following link, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXNtF0_3Ar36hIIWLtK5Hg , to go to our YouTube channel. We will begin streaming a few minutes before the service.
Our live video should appear above the other available videos and, if you are watching from a computer rather than a phone, should have red text marking it as “LIVE.” If you are not seeing the live video option right away, please refresh your page.
The live video is automatically recorded, so it will be available for viewing later on in the day or week if you can’t be online at 10:30.
Grace Church Virtual Coffee Hour, Sunday morning, following the 10:30 service.
Everyone who attends via the livestream is invited to Coffee Hour via Zoom. Zoom coffee hour will allow you to connect with others who have been worshiping from home, but will also be set up in the Connector so parishioners physically at the church can stop in and greet you. To be part of coffee hour, you should leave YouTube and then use the Zoom link below. Zoom will not be started until after the service is finished.
Here is the Zoom link for Coffee Hour:
Megan McDermott is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Zoom Coffee Hour 10:45am
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81396221128
Meeting ID: 813 9622 1128
Regular Schedule of Services
During the Academic Year (September through May/June)
Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
10:30 am Holy Eucharist (Choral)
Wednesday (beginning October 13, 2021)
12:10 pm Holy Eucharist — Rite I with Healing Prayer
Friday
5:30 pm Evensong
During the Summer (June through August)
Sunday
9:30 am Holy Eucharist
Wednesday
12:10 pm Holy Eucharist — Rite I with Healing Prayer
Friday
5:30 pm Evensong
About the Services
8 am 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 am 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, who may chose to use the Children’s Corner at the back of the church.
Liturgy in the Chapel: Liturgy in the Chapel is a short, child-centered Communion service open to children of all ages and their families that takes place in Grace’s chapel, currently on an every-other-month-basis. It includes an interactive sermon and focuses on one Scripture reading. Based on the Book of Common Prayer but adapted for children and families, especially newcomers to church, it is a great introduction to Episcopal worship! Contact Megan for info on its current schedule.
Coffee hour follows both services. Please don’t be shy about making introductions!
If you are new here, please fill out a blue card (found at the back of the pews), so that we may know how to keep in touch.
12:10 pm, 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.
5:30 pm, Friday, Evensong: Everyone is invited to sing the familiar chants, hymns, and suffrages from the hymnal with the choir members, or to listen prayerfully. This is a meditative way to bring the week to a close and enjoy God’s blessing on the weekend to come. All are welcome.