Bethesda Episcopal Church

Christmas Eve Eucharist and Carols
2024-12-24 16:00 (America/New_York) | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, welcome!
This sung Eucharist is a Rite I service, meaning that it uses the more traditional language of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This service includes lessons, prayers, congregational singing, a sermon, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to make their communion in The Episcopal Church.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
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Christmas Eve Sung Eucharist of the Nativity
2024-12-24 22:00 | NY

Christmas Day
2024-12-25 | NY
Christmas (in old English, Cristes maesse) is celebrated on Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, commemorating the Incarnation of the Word of God in the birth of Jesus Christ; it is also called The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christmas Day is one of the seven principal feasts. The Christmas season lasts twelve days, from Christmas Day until Jan. 5, the day before the Epiphany. The season includes Christmas Day, the First Sunday after Christmas Day, the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and may include the Second Sunday after Christmas Day. In many parishes, the main liturgical celebrations of Christmas take place on Christmas Eve.
Collect
Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been born again and made your children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit; through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the same Spirit be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings

Isaiah 9:2-7
Titus 2:11-14
Luke 2:1-14(15-20)
Psalm 96

Worship Services for Christmas Day

Christmas Day 9am
About the image
“The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel” by Duccio di Buoninsegna circa 1482 – 1485.
From the National Gallery of Art.

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Holy Communion (Said)
2024-12-25 09:00, 2024-12-29 09:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-01-05 08:00, 2025-01-12 08:00, 2025-01-19 08:00, 2025-01-26 08:00, 2025-02-02 08:00, 2025-02-09 08:00, 2025-02-23 08:00, 2025-03-02 08:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, welcome!
This said service of Holy Eucharist occurs most Sundays at 8am. It is a Rite I service, meaning that it uses the more traditional language of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This service includes lessons, prayers, a short sermon, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to make their communion in The Episcopal Church.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
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Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-01-05 10:00, 2025-01-12 10:00, 2025-01-19 10:00, 2025-01-26 10:00, 2025-02-02 10:00, 2025-02-09 10:00, 2025-02-23 10:00, 2025-03-02 10:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866

Annual Meeting 2025
2025-02-09 11:00 - 12:45 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
Bethesda’ s annual parish meeting will be held on Sunday, 9 February. The meeting will immediately follow the Sung Eucharist.

Winter Spirits - Choral Concert
2025-02-09 15:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
Come hear the Capital Region’s newest choral group: a small vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to the highest caliber performance of historic and majestic great works. After a successful premier this past summer, we are proud to offer “Winter Spirits.”
This concert traverses the centuries and features the Motet, Jesu, Meine Freude by J.S. Bach, and two works by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the English choral tradition: Mass in G and Serenade to Music.
Andrew Burger, Artistic Director Tickets $25, general seating www.excelsiorvocalensemble.org

Holy Eucharist (Rite I) - CANCELLED
2025-02-16 08:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
Cancelled due to weather
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, welcome!
This said service of Holy Eucharist occurs most Sundays at 8am. It is a Rite I service, meaning that it uses the more traditional language of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This service includes lessons, prayers, a short sermon, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to make their communion in The Episcopal Church.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
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Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon - CANCELLED
2025-02-16 10:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
Cancelled due to weather
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, welcome!
This sung Eucharist is a Rite I service, meaning that it uses the more traditional language of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This service includes lessons, prayers, congregational singing, a sermon, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to make their communion in The Episcopal Church.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
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Holy Communion (Said)
2025-02-20 12:10, 2025-02-27 12:10 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
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Ash Wednesday
2025-03-05 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent, a period of forty days (not including Sundays) that culminates in Holy Week with the remembrance of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. During the liturgy today, the words of the1979 Book of Common Prayer are read aloud, describing what this day is all about:
“Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful, were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith.
I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word. And, to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now kneel before the Lord, our maker and redeemer.”
Ashes are imposed on the foreheads of the Faithful as part of the reminder that though we be mortal, if we die in Christ, we shall be raised anew in Christ.
Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12

Psalm 103
2 Corinthians 5:20b–6:10

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Worship Services on Ash Wednesday

12:10pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes, 7pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes
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Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes
2025-03-05 12:10, 2025-03-05 19:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
This said service of Holy Communion follows the liturgy for Ash Wednesday laid out in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This service includes lessons, prayers, the imposition of ashes, a short sermon, and Holy Communion. All baptized Christians are welcome to make their communion in The Episcopal Church.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
Read more about Ash Wednesday.
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