
We are very glad to have you with us and we want you to know it. We sincerely hope you will enjoy your visit with us and will want to come again. We especially want you to feel comfortable during the service and we hope this little pamphlet will help. If this doesn't answer your questions, please feel free to ask our priest.
After we have finished our own prayers, we keep silent so as not to disturb the prayers and meditations of those around us who are preparing to worship.
Please don't think that we are being unfriendly if we don't speak to you in your pew. Actually we are trying to be considerate and give you time and quiet to pray and prepare yourself for worship.
Be thoughtful, be silent, be reverent:
For this is the House of God.
Before the service speak to God.
During the service let God speak to you.
After the service speak to each other.
Q: How do I use the bulletin? A: Our bulletins contain an outline of the service with the page numbers in edition of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) being used [See above] and the hymn numbers in the Hymnal 1982. As an additional aid the hymns to be sung are also posted on a hymn board in the front of the church.
We recommend that before the service you open the Book of Common Prayer to the beginning of the service (usually page 67 at 7:30 AM and page 323 at 10:00 AM) and open the Hymnal to the first hymn listed in the bulletin so that you'll be ready when the service begins.
Please note the directions to sit, stand, and kneel in the bulletin.