St Hilda's Anglican Church North Perth

Worship at St Hilda's

Every Sunday

8am Eucharist (said)

9.45 Eucharist (sung)

Our 8.00am Sunday service lasts about 50 minutes and is a quiet meditative worship . It is followed by tea/coffee and toast in the parish hall.

Our 9.45am Sunday service lasts about an hour and a quarter and includes community singing and the involvement of our children. We sing songs and hymns from a wide variety of sources, supported by expert organ music or electric piano or guitar and our small but enthusiastic choir.

At both services we provide a weekly service booklet with all parts of the service you need to follow it easily, based on A Prayer Book for Australia 2nd Order.

As a church we express our faith through different styles and approaches to worship - sometimes within the same service. We love the ancient, the modern and the post-modern. So, for instance you might find old liturgies next to new music, old hymns next to contemporary reflection.

Both our Sunday morning worship services are EUCHARIST liturgies because we believe in the centrality of taking the bread and the wine as Jesus told us to. The basic pattern of Anglican Eucharistic worship is four-fold:

(1) Gathering:

We come together as God's people, to become the church gathered.

(2) Ministry of the Word:

We hear stories from our religious tradition. Normally we have four readings. A Hebrew Scripture; a Psalm; a New Testament reading, and a Gospel reading. Following this is a sermon (about a 15 minute address) from the Rector that endeavours to relate them to our current experience of life in twenty-first century Perth. We then pray as a community.

(3) Ministry of the Sacrament:

As a community we celebrate our life in Jesus Christ by partaking in the bread and the wine. St Hilda's is an open community at which all who seek Christ's grace are freely offered the bread and the wine.

(4) Sending Out of God's People:

We are blessed and encouraged, equipped by God's Spirit to face our lives once again as God's people: the church scattered.