The primary way to participate in worship with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at this time is livestreaming. In addition to our Livestreaming Worship, we also are offering several supplementary opportunities to receive communion. All services that require pre-registration, and registration forms go live each Friday at 7:00AM for the following Sunday. We are not able to take registrations at the door.
Worship with us via Livestream at 10:45 a.m.
We will be livestreaming our service on Sundays at 10:45am, and our Wednesday services at 11am using Facebook live. You can view the service even if you do not have a Facebook account. You can view it here: https://www.facebook.com/
You can find the 10:45am Bulletin here.
Book of Common Prayer Online is here.
Downloadable PDF of Book of Common Prayer is here.
You can find the hymnal here.
You are invited to light a candle in your home, or wherever you are joining us in worship.
In-Person Worship & Other Worship Opportunities this Weekend
We will offer Communion Appointments in the St. Paul’s Sanctuary on Sunday from 1-2PM. Communion Appointments are a time when members of your household come for a short private service and receive the Eucharist in the sanctuary. Pre-registration is required. Please sign up here.
This Sunday, Drive Through Communion in the St. Paul's Parking Lot from 9AM-10AM and 12 Noon - 1PM. Drive Through Communion is a time when members of your household come for a short prayer service and receive communion in your car with one of our clergy or Eucharistic minister. Drive Through Communion does not require pre registration, though there may be a short wait. Masks are required.
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If you would like to be added to the list to receive a no-contact Eucharistic visit, which happens approximately every other weekend, please sign up here.
Sunday Service Over the Phone
St. Paul's will be playing the Sunday morning service over the phone at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoons for folks who do not have internet access. If you know someone who would like to listen to our services. We have shared this information with our list of parishioners who have expressed interest, and if you would like to join us please call this number at 1:30pm on Sundays: 1-646-558-8656, meeting ID: 412 531 7153. The password is 1066.
Music Notes: Sunday, February 28 2021
Doug Starr, Director of Music & Arts
Among a multitude of hymns that we sing in worship, one is most likely transmitted from generation to generation. We teach it to our children in Sunday School and they sing it as a blessing over meals. In the past it was commonly sung by choir and congregation, concluding the offertory. The text and associated music functions in times good and bad so today we sing this hymn at the Song of Praise and all organ works are based upon it- “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.” It is a hymn of the Protestant tradition, a German chorale text entitled, Herr Gott, Dich Loben Alle Wir, and most often sung to the Genevan Psalm tune, The Old Hundredth (Psalm 100) composed by Louis Bourgeois. Today’s organ settings include German composers, Pachelbel and Walther, and British composers, Purcell and Barnby. One of our children who sang this hymn in church and Canterbury Choir is my son, Tommy Starr whose setting we hear at the Sequence, a transcription of a movement from his Mass that makes use of the hymn tune. We love this hymn, not just for its inherent glory of text and music, but, because it refreshes so many equally glorious memories both in church and at home. Share those memories with one another on this Second Sunday of Lent.