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Prayer and Mass

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Morning Prayer

Everyday Starting at 08:30 am

Since most of our churches celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday, there are many parishioners who have had little or no experience with Morning Prayer. This is unfortunate since these Offices are a real treasure. Therefore, it is hoped that all Anglicans will make them a central part of their daily devotions

Evening Prayer

Everyday Starting at 5 pm

Since most of our churches celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday, there are many parishioners who have had little or no experience with Evening Prayer. This is unfortunate since these Offices are a real treasure. Therefore, it is hoped that all Anglicans will make them a central part of their daily devotions

Sunday Mass

Sundays Starting at 11 am

Mass is in Anglo-catholic parishes, to describe a celebration of the eucharist characterized by multiple ministers (a priest- or bishop-celebrant, deacon, “subdeacon,” acolytes, choir, and possibly others) and a rich ceremonial (incense, candles, processions, stylized movements and gestures), and a preference for singing rather than saying the various texts of the eucharist. A eucharist in which the celebrant is assisted by a deacon and a layperson serving as a liturgical subdeacon. The contrasting low mass is characterized by its requirements of a single minister (a priest-celebrant) and a strictly restrained ceremonial. The high mass was recognized as the eucharistic norm in the Roman rites of the middle ages, although the low mass was by far the more common celebration. The eucharistic rite in the 1549 BCP drew on a style similar to the normative high mass. But the 1552 BCP, alert to popular sensibilities favoring the more familiar low mass, used that style as the basis for its communion service. Subsequent Prayer Books followed the pattern of the 1552 BCP, which presupposed the priest-celebrant as the single liturgical leader at the eucharist. Which we use the 1928 BCP that is as elegant as the 1552 but a more modern language.

St Charles King and Martyr Anglican Church

St. Charles is a diverse group of people. We have retirees, singles, young families, and youth. Children of all ages are welcome in our service. Some of our members dress more formally, others dress more casually. We have varied church backgrounds. In all our diversity, we are united in our common faith and worship.

Our service is made up of two major halves with many hymns interspersed throughout. The beginning of our service is the Liturgy of the Word during which readings from both the Old and New Testaments are read and preached on. The second half of the service is the Liturgy of the Eucharist when we celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion. Any baptized Christian who believes that the Lord Jesus Christ is present to the people of God in the Lord’s Supper are welcome to receive Holy Communion (you do not have to be Anglican).

Our liturgical worship is very participatory. The ministers and the people all have parts in the prayers that we say and in the actions we take. If liturgy is new to you, that’s fine! You can still participate easily. Our entire service is in a bulletin for you to follow along.

After the service, we hope you will join us for coffee hour in the Undercroft.

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