With Bulletin For Christmas Services

Dear St. Paul’s Church Family,

  On behalf of our staff, Wardens and Vestry, I wish you a blessed Christmas and Epiphany season! Even with weather worries and all the stuff of life, this is such a wondrous time of year. As I will read in reference to Jesus from the Gospel according to John on Christmas morning, “What has come into being in him is life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” Now is a time that we welcome that light of Christ into our lives more fully.

  Thank you for all of your gracious holiday messages to Olly, our staff and me. Thank you too for your generous and loving support throughout the year of our faithful collaborative efforts to enhance the wellbeing of our island community and beyond. Our parish has a simple mission statement “to make the love of God more widely known”. O Lord, let it be so.

Love,

Max

This Week at St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket

The Church Office will be closed December 26 - December 30, Father Max will be checking the messages

Wednesday, December 28

9:00 a.m.      Staff Meeting

12:00 p.m.    Mid-Week Music off this week

3:00 p.m.      St. Paul’s Supper Delivery

Thursday, December 29

11:30 a.m.     Bible Study in person and broadcast in church       

Sunday, January 1 Epiphany Sunday

9:30 a.m.     Holy Eucharist

Updated Contact Information

Please email if your contact information has changed and needs to be updated.

Upcoming Happenings

St. Paul's Lunchbox Series C

Lunchbox is on Christmas holiday, returning Tuesday, 10 January, noon-1 pm.

Christmas Eve Music at St. Paul’s

4:30 p.m. Family Service: The music talents of St. Paul’s Youth Choristersand Pam Goddard, flute, will be featured, along with beloved Christmas carols.

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Music Prelude and 7:00 p.m. Festive Holy Eucharist Service: The prelude and service will feature the talents of Mollie Glazer, cello, Dr. Jennifer Maxwell, piano, Nigel Goss, string bass, and Joe Hammer, organ and vocals. Classic and contemporary Christmas instrumental and vocal music will be performed, in addition to a select group of Christmas carols for everyone to join in.

2023 Offering Envelopes

Distribution of 2023 Offering envelopes has begun. If you have been contacted and confirmed that you wish envelopes for 2023, then your box is in the back of the church on 12/24. If you have not used envelopes in the past but are interested in envelopes for 2023, Christine Borneman ( ).

The information to access our daily broadcast offerings is as follows:

Sunday Holy Eucharist at 9:30am

• in person
• via Facebook Live at St Paul's Church in Nantucket - Episcopal
• or via Zoom at click here and then click on Join a Meeting and use the ID code and then the Passcode when prompted with the meeting ID # 983 0366 8882 Passcode: 373740
• to phone in 1-301-715-8592 code: 98303668882#

Thursday morning Bible study 11:30-12:30, in person at church and via Facebook Live or Zoom (with the meeting ID # 957 8383 4554 and Passcode 206515).

Joe Hammer’s Mid-Week Music @St. Paul's, Wednesdays at noon, in person at church and via Facebook Live.

St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket (Episcopal)

December 25, 2022

Christmas Day

Holy Eucharist

Ringing of the Bell

Prelude    Angels We Have Heard on High

                                Tune: Gloria; arr. Humphrey Turner (20^th cent.)

Hymn 87 Hark! The herald angels sing Mendelssohn

The Acclamation 

Celebrant Blessed be God: Father, son, and Holy Spirit.

People And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen.

Collect for Purity

Gloria S280                                               Robert Powell (b.1932)                   

Glory to God in the highest, and peace to God’s people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your  glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Collect of the Day

The Lessons

A Reading from Isaiah 52:7-10

Psalm 98

The Holy Gospel according to John ( 1:1-14)

Sermon                                                                         The Rev. Max J. Wolf

Music Meditation              The First Noel

                                           Traditional; arr. Sally DeFord (b. 1958)

The Prayers of the People

Confession of Sin

Absolution

The Peace

The Peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you.

Announcements

Offertory Music Meditation Love Came Down at Christmas

                                                     Tune: Garton; arr. Alice Jordan (1916-2012)

Doxology sung                                                                                     Old 100^th

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise

 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

The Holy Communion

 Sanctus (said by all)   

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,

heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

The Breaking of the Bread

At the Communion       Still, Still, Still

                             Austrian Carol; arr. Franklin Ritter (Lani Smith [1934-2015])

Postcommunion Prayer (BCP 365)

Blessing

Hymn 99                      Go tell it on the mountain        Go tell it on the mountain

Dismissal

Voluntary                    Go, Tell It on The Mountain

                                                                Traditional Spiritual; arr. Carl Simone (1918–2003)

The Wardens, Vestry, Staff and Father Max, our Rector, wish

you a blessed Christmas and New Year.

All the beautiful wreaths on the Church doors are given

in memory of Sam Daume who loved St. Paul’s and Christmas.

Celebrant                                   The Rev. Max J. Wolf 

Verger                                        Curtis Barnes

Eucharistic Ministers               Jeff Cox, Bridget DiNapoli

Reader                                       Jeff Cox

Altar Guild                                 Ann Oliver, Sister Susanna 

Music Director & Organist       Joe Hammer