Saint Alban's
Episcopal Church
Bovina, MS
601-636-6687
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St. Alban's Episcopal
Church
5930 Warriors Trail Vicksburg MS 39180 |
| Phone:
601-636-6687 e-mail: church@stalbansbovina.org |
Episcopal Diocese of
Mississippi
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If you are unfamiliar with our worship services, we'd like to share our liturgy with you.
We offer Holy Eucharist services at 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM on Sundays and Holy Eucharist and Unction at 5:30 PM on Wednesdays. Our choir is present at the 11:00 AM service. There is no music at the 8:30 AM and the Wednesday services.
We use the liturgy set out in The Book of Common Prayer according to the use of the Episcopal church.
Holy Eucharist
We stand for the processional of the servers, choir and priest into the sanctuary. We remain standing for the salutation.
We stand or kneel (your choice) for the collect of the day.
Then we sit for one or two readings from Bible, with a psalm recited between the readings.
We stand for the Gospel of our Lord, and then sit again for the sermon.
After the sermon, we stand to declare our beliefs (the Nicene Creed) and we stand or kneel for the prayers of the people:
| an excerpt from Rite I Prayers of the
People: Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church and the world. Almighty and everliving God who in thy holy Word hast taught us to make prayers and supplications, and to give thanks for all men: Receive these our prayers which we offer unto thy devine Majesty, beseeching thee to inspire continually the Universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord; and grant that all those who do confess thy holy Name may agree in the truth of thy holy Word, and live in unity and godly love.... |
an excerpt from Rite II Prayers of the
People: (Form I) With all our heart and with all our mind, let us pray to the Lord, saying "Lord, have mercy." For the peace of the world, for the welfare of the holy Church of God, and for the unity of all peoples, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, have mercy.... (Form III) Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church; Response: That we all may be one..... (Form VI) In peace we pray to you, Lord God. For all people in their daily life and work: Response: For our families, friends, and neighbors, and for those who are alone..... |
The Prayers of the People, may conclude with a corporate confession:
| Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against thee in thought, word and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.... |
Most merciful
God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.... |
The congregation stands to greet the priest and other worshippers in the name of the Lord.
Announcements are made and an offertory begins the Holy Communion.
| Celebrant: Lift up your
hearts. People: We lift them up unto the Lord. Celebrant: Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. People: It is meet and right so to do. Celebrant: It is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and inn all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, holy father, almighty and everlasting God.... |
Celebrant:
Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them up to the Lord. Celebrant: Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. People: It is right so to give him thanks and praise. Celebrant: It is right and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.... |
We stand or kneel as the service continues with the consecration of the bread and wine and
with the Lord's Prayer, the Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to “receive communion”.
After communion, we conclude with a prayer of thanksgiving, again, standing or kneeling.
| Almighty and everliving
God, we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost feed us, in these
holy mysteries, with the spiritual food.... |
Eternal God,
heavenly, Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of
your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us.... |
Unction
On Wednesday, we offer Unction (anointing with oil in a healing service) with the Eucharist.
The Eucharist service we use is from Rite II, with special prayers for healing.
After the Prayers of the People, those who wish to be anointed are invited to the alter rail.
We kneel and are anointed and prayed for individually prior to exchanging the peace of the Lord.