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Photos from the February 2014 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land • Photos from past years

Feast of St Luke, October 18, 2015 - Orchestral Mass; Commissioning and Blessing of Health-care Workers

Corpus Christi, June 4, 2015

the Sacred Ministers carry the Sacrament outside

the Verger, Fr Wood, and Fr Dangelo in procession

the procession goes down Mt Vernon Street

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Trinity Sunday, May 31, 2015

Rogation Sunday, May 17, 2015

Our preacher, the Very Rev'd Andrew McGowan, Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University

Easter Day 2015

thurifer and boat-bearer in procession at 9am Mass

crucifer and acolyes in procession at 9am Mass

sacred ministers in procession at 9am Mass

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The Great Vigil 2015

Fr Warren and preacher before the server

scattering the baptismal water to the four points of the compass

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Good Friday 2015

sacred ministers prostrate before the altar

Behold the Wood of the Cross, whereon was hung the world's salvation

processing the Sacrament from the Garden of Repose

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Maundy Thursday 2015

servers and clergy in the Garden of Repose

the Sacrament on the altar in the Garden of Repose

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Palm Sunday 2015

The Rector and Sacred Ministers in procession

congregants in procession at Solemn Mass

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Episcopal Visitation, January 25, 2015

The Rt. Rev. Alan McIntosh Gates, Bishop of Massachusetts, made his first official visitation to the Advent on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul the Apostle.

Simon reminds us who really runs the church

the High Altar with a seventh candle, signifying the presence of the Ordinary

genuflection during the Words of Institution

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Christmas 2014

the Lady Chapel and the Christmas Pageant donkey

The Christmas Pageant

the donkey gets a little last-minute attention

Magi, angels and shepherds at the manger

Corpus Christi

preacher, Fr Blake Sawicky of St Stephen's in Providence

part of the Choir of Men and Boys from All Saints Ashmont

Trinity Sunday

The High Mass on Trinity Sunday concludes with a Solemn Te Deum.

Rogation Sunday

The Sixth Sunday of Easter, known as Rogation Sunday, is marked with a procession to the parish garden and a madrigal.

And about that madrigal ...

The text:

The Advent's one foundation
Is pilings in a swamp;
The sexton checks them weekly
To make sure they're still dahmp;
If dry rot e'er should smite them
These hallowed walls would fall;
And soon there would be condos
Where once stood Moseley Hall.

Our church is mighty spikey
with smells and bells and chants,
And Palestrina masses
that vex the Protestants.
O happy ones and holy
who fall upon their knees
For solemn Benediction
and mid-week Rosaries.

Though with a scornful wonder
men see our clergy, dressed
In rich brocaded vestments
as slowly they process;
Yet saints their watch are keeping
lest souls be set alight
Not by the Holy Ghost,
but incense taking flight.

Now we on earth have union
with Lambeth, not with Rome,
Although the wags and cynics
may question our true home;
But folk Masses and bingo
can't possibly depose
The works of Byrd and Tallis,
or Cranmer's stately prose.

(Here shall the organist modulate)

So let the organ thunder,
sound fanfares "en chamade";
Rejoice, for we are treading
where Mrs. Gardner trod;
Let peals ring from the spire,
sing descants to high C —
Just don't let your elation
disrupt the liturgy.

(J. Thomas Sopko, 1994)

Easter Day