Grace Episcopal Church, Hartford

Evensong for the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas
2025-01-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Grace Episcopal Church, 55 New Park Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, 06106-2123, United States
Join the voices of Grace Episcopal Church & Haven Religious for Evensong on The Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 6:00 pm

All are welcome!

A quiet evening of sung prayer, psalms, scripture, with music ancient and new

If you would like to sing with the schola, please arrive at 5:oo pm

Grace Episcopal Church ✣ 55 New Park Avenue ✣ Hartford, CT

2025 Annual Meeting for Grace Episcopal Church
2025-01-26 12:15 - 14:00 | Grace Episcopal Church, 55 New Park Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, 06106-2123, United States
Please join us for the Annual Meeting of Grace Episcopal Church

Sunday, January 26th, 2025

following the 10:30 a.m. Solemn High Mass

This is our yearly business meeting and it is important that as many parishioners as possible attend, so PLEASE JOIN US AFTER THE 10:30 A.M. MASS! Among the items on our agenda will be the election of officers and members of the vestry, as well as a review of our budget for 2025. This year’s Annual Report will be available and includes a list of voting members and a list of open offices with candidates for each, along with reports for 2024 and the new budget for 2025. Lunch will be provided.

2024 Annual Report.docxDownload

Solemn High Mass for the Third Sunday After the Epiphany
2025-01-26 10:30 - 12:00
Music:

Mass Setting: Missa brevis ~ Arthur Wills (d. 2020)

Voluntary: Aria ~ Flor Peeters (d. 1986)

Motet (choir) ~ Almighty and everlasting God ~ Orlando Gibbons (d. 1625)

Hymn 321 ~ “My God, thy table now is spread” ~ Rockingham

Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V

Hymn 539 ~ “O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling” ~ Tidings

Voluntary: Paean ~ Herbert Howells (d.1983)

Preacher: Mr. Sean Glenn, Haven Religious

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

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Low Mass
2025-01-26 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-01-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-01-12 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-01-05 08:00 - 09:00
Preacher: TBA

Our 8AM service is a Low Mass. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the Bulletin. We leave room for silence and contemplation, and there is no music at this service. A refreshing start to a Sunday.

For more information about Low Mass, click here: Services

The Third Sunday After the Epiphany
2025-01-26 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IGreenPsalm 19Nehemiah 8:1-3,5-6,8-101 Corinthians 12:12-31aLuke 4:14-21

The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
2025-01-25 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IEpiphanyWhitePsalm 67Acts 26:9-21Galatians 1:11-24Matthew 10:16-22

Food Pantry Distribution
2025-01-23 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-16 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-09 09:30 - 11:30

Vestry Meeting
2025-01-22 11:00 - 13:00

Solemn High Mass for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany and Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2025-01-19 10:30 - 12:00
Music:

Mass Setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)

Voluntary: Schmuecke dich, o liebe Seele ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)

Hymn 339 ~ “Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness” ~ Schmücke dich

Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V

Hymn 648 ~ “When Israel was in Egypt’s land” ~ Go Down, Moses

Voluntary: A Trumpet Minuet ~ Alfred Hollins (d. 1942)

Preacher: Mr. Aldon Hynes

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

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The Second Sunday After the Epiphany
2025-01-19 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IGreenPsalm 36:5-10Isaiah 62:1-51 Corinthians 12:1-11John 2:1-11

The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle
2025-01-18 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IEpiphanyWhitePsalm 23Acts 4:8-131 Peter 5:1-4Matthew 16:13-19

Solemn High Mass for the First Sunday after the Epiphany
2025-01-12 10:30 - 12:00
Music:

Mass Setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)

Voluntary: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)

Carol (choir) ~ “The Holy Season” ~ Burgundian, ed. E. Lewis

Hymn 116 ~ “’I come’, the great Redeemer cries” ~ This Endris Nyght

Anthem, from Christus (choir) ~ “There shall a Star from Jacob come forth” ~ F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (d. 1847)

Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V

Hymn 120 ~ “The sinless one to Jordan came” ~ Solemnis haec festivitas

Voluntary: This Endris Night ~ arr. Robert Hebble (d. 2020)

Preacher: Sr. Gregory Simmons, Haven Religious

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

2025-01-12 Epiphany 1C VirtualDownload

The First Sunday After the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
2025-01-12 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IWhitePsalm 29Isaiah 43:1-7Acts 8:14-17Luke 3:15-17,21-22

The Eve of the First Sunday After the Epiphany
2025-01-11 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IEpiphanyGreen

The Feast of the Epiphany ~ Solemn High Mass of the Epiphany
2025-01-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Grace Episcopal Church, 55 New Park Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, 06106-2123, United States
Join us For the Feast of Epiphany ~ Solemn High Mass with Choirand Procession of the Three Kings

Followed by celebration with gifts for the children!

Music:

Mass Setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)

Organ Voluntary: Hymn Prelude on Stuttgart (“Eastern sages at his cradle”) ~ Charles Winfred Douglas (d. 1944)

Hymn ~ “Lo! the pilgrim Magi ” ~ Whitworth

Hymn 128 ~ “We three kings” ~ Three Kings of Orient

Hymn 117 ~ “Brightest and best of the stars of the morning” ~ Morning Star

Anthem, from L’Enfance du Christ (choir) ~ Hector Berlioz (d. 1869); English text by Paul England

Hymn 127 ~ “Earth has many a noble city” ~ Stuttgart

Organ Voluntary: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)

Preacher: The Rev. Deacon Marta S. Rivera Monclova, PhD, Deacon

The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
2025-01-06 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IEpiphanyWhitePsalm 72:1-7,10-14Isaiah 60:1-6Ephesians 3:1-12Matthew 2:1-12Psalm 72 or Psalm 72:1-2,10-17Isaiah 60:1-6,9Ephesians 3:1-12Matthew 2:1-12

Solemn High Mass for the Second Sunday after Christmas Day
2025-01-05 10:30 - 12:00
Music:

Mass Setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)

Voluntary: Gottes Sohn ist kommen ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)

Hymn 491 ~ “Where is this stupendous stranger?” ~ Kit Smart

Carol (choir) ~ Torches, torches! ~ John Joubert, 1951

Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V

Hymn 119 ~ ” As With Gladness Men Of Old” ~ Dix

Voluntary: Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich ~ J. S. Bach

Preacher: The Rev. Rowena J. Kemp, Rector

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

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Eve of Epiphany
2025-01-05 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IChristmasWhite

The Second Sunday After Christmas Day
2025-01-05 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IWhitePsalm 84 or Psalm 84:1-8Jeremiah 31:7-14Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19aMatthew 2:13-15,19-23 or Luke 2:41-52 or Matthew 2:1-12

Low Mass for New Year's Day
2025-01-01 11:00 - 11:45 | Grace Episcopal Church, 55 New Park Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, 06106-2123
Please join Rev. Rowena Kemp for Low Mass to celebrate the new year. Also on Facebook Live ~ www.facebook.com/GECHartford

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The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ
2025-01-01 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IChristmasWhitePsalm 8Numbers 6:22-27Galatians 4:4-7 or Philippians 2:5-11Luke 2:15-21

Solemn High Mass for the First Sunday after Christmas Day
2024-12-29 10:30 - 12:00
Music:

Mass Setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)

Voluntary: Away in a manger (Cradle Song) ~ William J. Kirkpatrick (d. 1921), arr. Keith Chapman (d. 1989)

Hymn 112 ~ “In the bleak midwinter” ~ Cranham

Carol (choir) ~ “Lullee, lullay” ~ Peter Niedmann (b. 1960)

Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V

Hymn 115 ~ “What child is this, who, laid to rest” ~ Greensleeves

Voluntary: Variations on Greensleeves ~ Craig Phillips (b. 1961)

Preacher: The Rev. Rowena J. Kemp, Rector

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.

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Low Mass
2024-12-29 08:00 - 09:00
Preacher: Ms. Gregory Simmons, Haven Religious Community

Our 8AM service is a Low Mass. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the Bulletin. We leave room for silence and contemplation, and there is no music at this service. A refreshing start to a Sunday.

For more information about Low Mass, click here: Services

The Holy Innocents
2024-12-28 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IChristmasRedPsalm 124Jeremiah 31:15-17Revelation 21:1-7Matthew 2:13-18

Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist
2024-12-27 00:00 - 23:59
Year C / IChristmasWhitePsalm 92 or Psalm 92:1-4,11-14Exodus 33:18-231 John 1:1-9John 21:19b-24
