TRADITIONAL LITURGICAL WORSHIP for Christians of all denominations -- and to the unchurched who are seeking certainty in our uncertain world. Here you'll find no "double-minded" thinking and no fuzzy modern theological sophistry.
DIVERSE ETHNIC, ECONOMIC & RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS. We do not celebrate any single national culture or heritage, nor do we seek a return to some imagined blissful era before the schisms in the Church, especially within the Episcopal Church in the United States. In addition to diversity in religious backgrounds, our parishioners come from a wide spectrum of ethnic, educational, social and economic backgrounds.
FANCY DRESS NOT REQUIRED. We do not require formal dressing for services, but we do expect that the clothes you wear be clean and dignified. Men should not wear hats in the Church building at any time.
CORPORATE WORSHIP. Although we come from many backgrounds and conditions of life, both physical and financial, we set aside our backgrounds and individual personalities and come together to worship as one corporate body: the household of God, the Church which is the family of God on earth.
ST. CHRYSOSTOM HYMNAL. Our Hymnal was developed within the parish by a committee of clergy and laity. We have included not just music from the Anglican tradition but also songs from many other denominations, especially Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran, from the 17th to the early 20th Century. We have restored many great Episcopal hymns from the 17th to the 19th Century which were not included in the 1940 Hymnal.
LARGE TYPE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Our prayer book offers clear instructions on when to sit, stand, kneel or respond. All text is 18pt with 20th section titles. It also includes special liturgies for certain Feast Days not provided for in the 1928 BCP. These special liturgies call upon texts from Anglican, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox services books, missals and breviaries.
REAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FEELING. We offer not just worship but faith and love as a Christian community in a hostile world. Our guide to behaviour is the advice of St. Paul: to live by the Commandments and teachings of the Church, to love one another, and to live quiet lives minding our own busienss (1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 NKJV text). We promise to treat visitors and newcomers as "no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God" (Ephesians 2:19 NKJV).
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