St. Paul's Church
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The central act of worship at St. Paul's is the Mass, also called Holy Communion and the Eucharist. Our dedicated choir and team of altar servers work with the clergy to enhance the dignity and beauty of our worship. While the primary source for our worship is the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the service is supplemented with many ancient and traditional elements not fully explained in the Prayer Book. This page makes available a number of texts which may be helpful in explaining our forms of worship to those who are interested -
Sunday Mass at St. Paul's -
A "Guide for the Perplexed" is a detailed, step-by-step description of Mass as it is celebrated at St. Paul's every Sunday morning.
What we do in Church and Why -
These articles, originally produced by Canon E.U. Ruhlander for the Parish of All Saints, Janesville, Wisconsin, explains the history and significance of various elements of catholic worship.- Making the sign of the Cross
- Genuflecting and Bowing
- Lighting a candle
- Burning Incense
- Anointing with Oil
- Asking the prayers of the Saints
The Stations of the Cross -
This is the complete text of the form of the Stations used at St. Paul's on Friday evenings in Lent. See also, a brief history of Stations of the Cross
St. Paul's Stained Glass Windows -
The building has a fine set of stained glass windows, mostly by Hart Studios of Hillsdale, Michigan. The stained glass windows in the nave of St. Paul's tell stories from the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The story begins with the Nativity of Our Lord and ends with His Ascension into Heaven. All windows are unified by the insertion of a vine and branch theme to suggest that Our Lord is the Vine and we are the branches. All the windows also include a lily symbol in honor of St. Mary the Virgin.
