Bethesda Episcopal Church

Holy Communion (Said)
2025-04-10 12:10, 2025-04-03 12:10, 2025-03-27 12:10, 2025-03-20 12:10, 2025-03-13 12:10, 2025-03-06 12:10 (America/New_York) | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866
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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 Are the deadly sins, or capital vices, merely outdated concepts unfit for our modern world?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
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
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.
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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
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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Lent Study (Session 2 of 4): The Seven Deadly Sins
2025-03-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Bethesda Episcopal Church, 26 Washington St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866

Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-03-16 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)
2025-03-16 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 Second Sunday in Lent
2025-03-16
This is the second of five Sundays in Lent before Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. Today in Luke’s gospel, we have one of the many accounts of Jesus rebuking the Pharisees. He foretells his arrival into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (as well as his second coming at a time unknown), with the words, “And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'”
Collect
O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from thy ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of thy Word, Jesus Christ thy Son; who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
Psalm: 27
Philippians 3:17–4:1
Luke 13:31-35

Worship Services for the Second Sunday in Lent

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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Christ Among the Pharisees (1660-1670), Jacob Jordaens
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Lent Study (Session 1 of 4): The Seven Deadly Sins
2025-03-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Christ Episcopal Church, 15 West High Street, Ballston Spa, NY, 12020, United States

Sung Eucharist (Rite I) and Sermon
2025-03-09 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)
2025-03-09 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 First Sunday in Lent
2025-03-09
Lent is a penitential season which began on Ash Wednesday and culminates in Holy Week. This first Sunday in Lent is always marked by a reading of the account of the temptation of Christ in the desert.
Collect
Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted of Satan: Make speed to help thy servants who are assaulted by manifold temptations; and, as thou knowest their several infirmities, let each one find thee mighty to save; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Appointed Readings

Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13

Worship Services for the First Sunday in Lent

Sunday 8am, Sunday 10am
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Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness (1886-1894), James Tissot
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Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes
2025-03-05 19:00, 2025-03-05 12:10 | 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.
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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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