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Worship Services
Worship Services - Worship Ministries
In addition to the primary worship services on Sunday morning, there are also weekday services and services for special occasions during the church year. During the 10:30 am Sunday service, there is a children's chapel service.
Many people and groups make our worship services possible, including greeters, ushers, acolytes, Layreaders and Eucharistic Ministers, the adult choir, the Handbell Choir, and the Altar Guild.
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Sunday
7:30am Holy Eucharist, traditional language (Rite I) and no music10:30am Holy Eucharist, contemporary language (Rite II)with choir
Tuesday
10:00am Holy EucharistWednesday
7:00am Holy EucharistSunday Services
7:30 am
Anywhere from 40 to 75 of our church family celebrate their Eucharistic Thanksgiving to God in the quiet and meditative atmosphere of the early morning at St. John's with the sun's light streaming through the stained glass window of Christ the Pantocrator behind the Sarum altar of St. John's.This is a traditional-language service with no music, and there is plenty of room to find your own personal place of quiet to pray.
10:30 am
In this service we use contemporary language in the liturgy. This is our more formal service: the presiding celebrant chants, our adult choir sings, and the choir and congregation together sing various prayers and acclamations throughout the service.The adult choir, led by Dr. Linda Kelly at the keyboard of the Bedient Tracker Pipe Organ, offers a variety of choral literature ranging from Gregorian and Anglican chant to polyphony, Romantic and northern European as well as English music.
Children's Chapel Service
A simple liturgy of the word for children takes place in the Chapel of the Beloved Disciple during the first part of the 10:30 am service. The service is available for children ages 4 through 7. The children process into the church at the Peace, or parents may ask that their children be taken to the nursery instead.Tuesday Service
10:00 am
This Service of Holy Eucharist is held in St. John's Chapel of the Beloved Disciple. Each week 10 to 15 people meet to celebrate a short but intimate time of Holy Communion and healing prayers with anointing (unction).Most of this group meets for Bible study of the coming Sunday readings just afterward in the Commons.
Wednesday Service
7:00 am
This quiet Service of Holy Communion is celebrated by our assisting priest, Father Dick Virtue, retired from his position as Executive Director of the Norman Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center.Special Services
Special services are held during the church year to celebrate holy days such as Christmas Eve (December 24), the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6), the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (February 2), Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Ascension Day, the Transfiguration, and All Saints Day (Nov. 1).