The Prayers of the People

The Peace

The Collection of Gifts and Offerings

Your financial gifts support the Brothers’ life and our ministry to many, here at our Monastery in Cambridge and at our rural Monastery, Emery House, in West Newbury, and others whom we reach electronically and in our travels on mission.

Presider Behold what you are.

People May we become what we receive.

A Note about Holy Communion

Following Diocesan guidelines, please refrain from intinction (dipping the Bread into the Chalice). If you wish to abstain from receiving from the Chalice, remember that the Church catholic has always taught that the fullness of the Sacrament is received even when only one form is received.

If you require a Gluten-Free host, please indicate to the Brother administering Bread at Holy Communion if that is your preference.

Post-Communion Hymn Savior, like a shepherd lead us Hymnal 708

Prayer after Communion

Presider God of steadfast love, People watch over the Church redeemed by the blood of your Son. May we who share in these holy mysteries come safely to your eternal kingdom, where there is one flock and one shepherd. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ the risen Lord. Amen.

Easter Blessing and Dismissal

Br. Geoffrey Tristram, Presider

Br. Jonathan Maury, Preacher

Br. Jim Woodrum, Acolyte

Mr. James Woodman, Monastery Organist

The Monastery as Sanctuary

We want our Monastery to be a sanctuary for our guests and for the Brothers. Please silence your electronic devices. We also ask you not to photograph, video, or record services in the Chapel, or to photograph other guests or Brothers without their express permission.

Welcome

We are delighted to welcome you to the Monastery today, either in-person or online. If you are a visitor, or new to the Monastery or Community, please take a moment to introduce yourself to one of the Brothers following the Eucharist. If you are joining us online, drop us a note telling us where you are joining us from.

Retreat Day

The community will take its retreat day in May on Wednesday, 3 May. We will not pray Compline on Tuesday, 2 May, or Morning Prayer or Compline on Wednesday, 3 May. Our retreat and fast day in July will be on Wednesday, 5 July.

St. John’s Day

We will be celebrating our annual patronal festival, the Feast of St. John, the Beloved Disciple, on Saturday, 6 May at 11:00 AM. Our preacher for St. John’s Day this year is The Reverend Cathy George. Cathy has served as a parish priest in this Diocese and as both the Assistant Dean of Yale Divinity School and the Associate Dean of Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal seminary at Yale. We are delighted to be able to welcome her to the Monastery as our preacher this year. Following the service there will be our annual garden party and luncheon. All are welcome. Please invite someone who doesn’t yet know the monastery to join you.

Bishop Visitor

The Right Reverend A. Robert Hirschfeld, the Bishop Visitor of the Community, will be making his annual visitation the week of 9–12 May. Bishop Hirschfeld will preach and preside at the Eucharist on Tuesday, 9 May at 5:30 PM. This service will be both in-person and livestreamed.

Boston Calling

Boston Calling will take place the weekend of 26–28 May. As a result, the chapel will close after Evening Prayer on Thursday, 25 May. We will open for the Sunday Eucharist on 28 May, and close again following the Eucharist. We will reopen for Morning Prayer on Tuesday, 30 May. Except for the Sunday Eucharist we will not livestream our services during this time.