Bethesda Episcopal Church

Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-04-27 10:00 (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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-04-27 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.
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Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-04-20 10:00 | 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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-04-20 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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Easter Day (The Sunday of the Resurrection)
2025-04-20 | NY
Easter Day, also called the Sunday of the Resurrection, is the prototype for all Sundays of the Christian year. Indeed, every Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection, as it calls to remember that first Easter Morn, which changed the world forever. Come and join those in our parish who gather together on this morn in praise of the one who died and rose again that we may have life, and have it abundantly.
Collect: O God, who for our redemption didst give thine only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection hast delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through the same thy Son Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 65:17-25
1 Corinthians 15:19-26 or Acts 10:34-43
John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12

Worship Schedule for Easter Day

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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The Empty Tomb, Mikhail Nesterov (1889)
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Liturgy for Good Friday
2025-04-18 12:10 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
This solemn service commemorates the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross. Read more about Good Friday here.
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A portion of the central panel of The Elevation of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens (1610-11)
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Good Friday
2025-04-18 | NY
On Good Friday, the Church commemorates the suffering of Jesus on the Cross, and his death. This event brings us into the heart of the Christian Gospel: when given a choice between God and themselves, the powers of this world choose themselves. If the Cross was the last word, it would mean the death of God. But stay tuned. God has the first and last word, and through him, death is defeated once and for all. For Christians, therefore, the Cross is a symbol of the death of death.
Collect: Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Isaiah 52:13–53:12, or Genesis 22:1-18, or Wisdom 2:1, 12-24
Psalm 22:1-21, or 40:1-14, or 69:1-23
Hebrews 10:1-25
John 18:1-19:37 or 19:1-37

Worship Schedule for Good Friday

April 18, 12 noon
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A portion of the central panel of The Elevation of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens (1610-11)
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Maundy Thursday Liturgy
2025-04-17 19:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, welcome!
This service commemorates the institution of Holy Communion in the life of the Church. We invite all baptized Christians to make their Communion. If you aren’t baptized, we invite you to come forward to receive a blessing. Simply cross your arms over your chest to indicate you would like to receive a blessing.
If you aren’t yet baptized but are considering it, let us know! Contact us and we’ll be happy to talk about it.
Please note: The church remains open until 10pm for private prayer.
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Maundy Thursday
2025-04-17 | NY
On Maundy Thursday, the Church commemorates the Last Supper that Jesus ate with his disciples before his passion and death. In the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, attention is given to the words of Our Lord on this very night, as recorded in John 14 and 15:

The Lord Jesus, after he had supped with his disciples and had washed their feet, said to them: Do you know what I, your Lord and Master, have done to you? I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done.
Peace is my last gift to you, my own peace I now leave with you; peace which the world cannot give, I give to you.
I give you a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.
By this shall the world know that you are my disciples: That you have love for one another.

Collect: Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Exodus 12:1-14a
Psalm 78:14-20, 23-25
1 Corinthians 11:23-32
John 13:1-15 or Luke 22:14-30

Worship Schedule for Maundy Thursday

April 17, 7pm (Note the church remains open until 10pm for private prayer.)
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The Last Supper, Ugolino de Siena (c. 1325-30)
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Stations of the Cross
2025-04-16 19:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we welcome you to Bethesda Episcopal Church.

Join us this evening for Stations of the Cross — a service of scripture readings, silence and prayers which prepares us to receive Christ Crucified into our hearts.
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A portion of Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (c. 1516), Rafael (1483-1520)
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Holy Communion (Said)
2025-04-15 12:10, 2025-04-10 12:10, 2025-04-03 12:10, 2025-03-27 12:10 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
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Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-04-13 10:00 | 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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-04-13 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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Palm Sunday (The Sunday of the Passion)
2025-04-13 | NY
The priest, when blessing the palms on Palm Sunday, is directed by the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (page 271) to say, “It is right to praise you, Almighty God, for the acts of love by which you have redeemed us through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. On this day he entered the holy city of Jerusalem in triumph, and was proclaimed as King of kings by those who spread their garments and branches of palm along his way. Let these branches be for us signs of his victory, and grant that we who bear them in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life; who lives and reigns in glory with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.”
That “way that leads to eternal life” will take Jesus through persecution, brutality, trial, conviction, abandonment, and death on a cross before he comes out the other side, victorious, on Easter Morn. Let there be no confusion, then, regarding the reason Palm Sunday is also called The Sunday of the Passion.
Collect: Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
Appointed Readings:
Liturgy of the Palms:

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
Luke 19-28-40

Liturgy of the Word:

Psalm 31:9-16
Isaiah 50-4-9a
Philippians 2:5-11
Luke 23:1-49

Worship Schedule for Palm Sunday

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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Jesus enters Jerusalem, relief in stone on the west facade, Orvieto Cathedral, Italy (c. 1310-31)
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Lent Study (Session 4 of 4): The Seven Deadly Sins
2025-04-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
What are the seven deadly sins? Are the deadly sins, or capital vices, merely outdated concepts unfit for our modern world? Or are they still relevant for today’s spirituality? In addition to exploring the deadly sins’ historical development and spiritual purpose, this study will also examine the life-giving virtues that point us to Jesus Christ, the virtuous medicine that heals any sinful ailment. Classes will be held on the following Wednesday evenings: 12th March; 19th March; 2nd April; and 9th April. On 12 March, we will meet at Christ Church, Ballston Spa.
To register, please contact the parish office.

Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-04-06 10:00 | 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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-04-06 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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The Fifth Sunday in Lent
2025-04-06 | NY
In the reading from the Gospel of John for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Jesus goes to Bethany, home of his friends: Mary and Martha, and their brother Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. It is here, John tells us, the Jesus is prepared by Mary for what comes next. All of the forces are gathering, and John makes it perfectly clear that Jesus knows it.
Collect: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men: Grant unto thy people that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely therebe fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Isaiah43:16-21
Psalm 126
Philippians 3:4b-14
John 12:1-8

Worship for the Fifth Sunday in Lent

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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A portion of Mary and Martha, Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670)
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Spring Cleaning
2025-04-05 09:00 - 12:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
A Spring Cleaning to prepare the church for Holy Week-Easter is planned for Saturday 5th April at 9am. The more, the merrier…!
If you have any time to spare, feel free to drop in and lend a hand.

Lent Study (Session 3 of 4): The Seven Deadly Sins
2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Christ Episcopal Church, 15 West High Street, Ballston Spa, NY, 12020, United States

Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-03-30 10:00 | 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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-03-30 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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The Fourth Sunday in Lent: Laetare Sunday
2025-03-30 | NY
This is the fourth of five Sundays in Lent before Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. This Sunday is called Laetare Sunday, which literally means “rejoice. Why rejoice? In the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the Gospel of Luke, the father tells us where joy is found: “For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!”
Laetare Sunday serves as a reminder that in the midst of this long penitential season of Lent — even unto the midst of our own self-inflicted, wayward suffering — Christ came not to condemn, but to save, if only we turn to him.
Collect: Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which giveth life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Joshua 5:9-12
Psalm 32
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Worship for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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A portion of Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1661-69), Rembrandt
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Stations of the Cross
2025-03-26 19:00 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we welcome you to Bethesda Episcopal Church.

Join us this evening for Stations of the Cross — a service of scripture readings, silence and prayers which prepares us to receive Christ Crucified into our hearts. It is repeated on Wednesday, April 16 at 7pm.
Read more about Lent at Bethesda.
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A portion of Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (c. 1516), Rafael (1483-1520)
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Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-03-23 10:00 | 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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Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
2025-03-23 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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The Third Sunday in Lent
2025-03-23 | NY
This is the third of five Sundays in Lent before Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. In today’s Old Testament Lesson from the Book of Exodus, we have the story of Moses, God, and the burning bush. The Lord says to Moses, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people.”
Collect: Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings:

Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 63: 1-8
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Luke 13:1-9

Worship Services for the Third Sunday in Lent

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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Moses before the Burning Bush, Domenico Fetti (c. 1589 – 1623)
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