Worship at St. Mark’s
Old prayers. Real life.
Our Worship
Episcopal worship brings together Scripture, prayer, music, preaching, silence, and sacrament.
Some of the words we pray are very old. Christians have carried them through generations of births and deaths, good years and hard ones, certainty and doubt, war and peace. We don’t have to invent worship from scratch every Sunday.
We bring our own lives into those prayers: our families and work, joys and worries, failures and hopes. And together we turn them toward God.
We join our voices to generations of Christians who have prayed before us, trusting that Christ meets us here and now.
Sunday Worship
Sunday • 10:00 AM
400 South Main Street, Newark, New York
We worship every Sunday at 10:00 AM. Our services normally last about an hour.
During our clergy transition, Sundays may be Holy Eucharist, when a priest is with us, or Morning Prayer, led by members of the congregation.
Both are full services of Christian worship. The calendar will tell you what we’re praying this Sunday.
HOLY EUCHARIST
Holy Communion
At the Eucharist, we gather around two things Christians have gathered around from the beginning: God’s Word and Christ’s table.
We hear Scripture, pray for the Church and the world, confess our sins and receive God’s forgiveness, share Christ’s peace, and bring bread and wine to the altar.
Then we remember Jesus’ Last Supper and do what he told his disciples to do:
“Do this in remembrance of me.”
For Episcopalians, Communion is more than remembering something that happened long ago. We believe Christ is truly present and gives himself to us in the bread and wine.
All baptized Christians, regardless of denomination, are welcome to receive Communion at St. Mark’s. You may also come forward for a blessing or remain in your seat.
MORNING PRAYER
Morning Prayer
Morning Prayer is one of the great treasures of Anglican Christianity.
We hear Scripture, sing, confess our faith, pray for the Church and the world, and offer our lives to God together. Because Morning Prayer does not require a priest, trained laypeople can lead the congregation.
But Morning Prayer isn’t simply what we do when a priest isn’t available. It belongs to an ancient Christian pattern of prayer that has shaped Anglican life for centuries.
At St. Mark’s, it gives us another way to do something Christians have always done:
pray together.
WHY WORSHIP?
Why do we worship?
We don’t worship because God needs an audience. We worship because we need God.
Sunday interrupts the rest of the week.
For a little while, we stop working, buying, worrying, scrolling, producing, arguing, and trying to prove ourselves. We gather with other people and remember that none of those things gets the final word about who we are.
We hear again the story of God’s love for the world. We confess where we’ve gone wrong. We receive forgiveness. We pray for people beyond ourselves. We give thanks. We receive Christ. And then we are sent back into ordinary life to love and serve our neighbors.
Worship doesn’t take us out of the world. It helps form us to live differently within it.
Come and See.
You don’t need to understand Episcopal worship before experiencing it.
Come through the doors. Take a bulletin. Find a seat. Listen, sing, pray, or simply take it in.
Sunday · 10:00 AM
400 South Main Street, Newark