Sunday
Holy Communion at 5:00.
346 East 69th Street. Yorkville, between First and Second Avenues. The door is the yellow church with the tower.
- Sunday5:00Holy Communion
What the room is like
- Dress for a serious room. There is no costume and no uniform.
- We stand, sit, and kneel as the book asks. Follow a neighbor. You will not be corrected in public.
- Children are expected to learn the room, not be entertained out of it.
- Screens stay in a pocket. The point of being here is to be here.
- You need not receive communion. Common prayer does not require a common certainty.
Holy Communion
The shape of the service
We use the cadences of the old prayer book, in English a person can hear. We are not performing antiquity. The words are load-bearing.
- 01
Opening sentence
We begin with a sentence of scripture, not an announcement.
- 02
Confession
Said together. The room does not interview you about it.
- 03
Psalm
Sung or said. Mercy and truth are allowed to meet.
- 04
Lesson
Read so it can be heard. Not performed.
- 05
Sermon
Short. It serves the holding. It is not a rally.
- 06
Creed
We say it. We do not examine one another on it.
- 07
Prayers
For the city, for honest work, for those with enough and those without, for the freedom of conscience.
- 08
Offering
Necessary. A gift, not a sacrifice.
- 09
Communion
Come forward, or stay in the pew. No one is counted either way.
- 10
Dismissal
The service ends. The three interests do not.
The collect of the parish
Almighty God, who set Michael to keep the freedom of souls, and George to stand where the ground is real: preserve this parish from every trade of one for the other; that our prayer may be common and our belief unforced, and that our work may tell the truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.”
Psalm 85
If the holding is one you can pray inside, sit with the six questions and leave a notice of intention.