Choral Mattins & Festal Eucharist

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Above: Christ the Good Shepherd at the center of the Gentleness Window, recently restored.

The 11am Eucharist is typically the best-attended worship service at Saint Thomas each week. It is at this service that you not only will experience the full power of liturgy, music and preaching at Saint Thomas, but also will have the opportunity to meet many parishioners in the pews. Coffee hour and a guided tour follow the service. The bookstore, located on the first floor of the Parish House, is open following the service.

Included during worship are hymns sung by the congregation and choir, additional music sung exclusively by the choir, lessons, prayers, a sermon, and a Rite I Mass. All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Holy Communion.

This week the service begins with Choral Mattins, which occurs three times a year at the 11am service. Mattins allows us to offer some extraordinary works of the Anglican choral tradition that our congregation normally does not have the opportunity to hear at 11am on Sundays. If you are unfamiliar with Mattins, you are encourged to look at the leaflet and service card posted below.

‚ñ∫John Scott speaks of the music of John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Charles Villiers Stanford, heard in today’s service, in his Music Notes.
‚ñ∫In his Weekly Message, the Rector speaks of the tradition of reading from the Acts of the Apostles during Eastertide. Today’s First Lesson is Acts 2:42-47.

• Choral Services
• Worship Services