MISSION WORSHIP AT GRACE Where Anglican You’ll find a variety of worship tradition engages styles at Grace Episcopal Church. the contemporary The early service on Sunday mornings offers the beautiful world, Grace Church traditional language of Rite I, opens its doors on in a contemplative setting. At 10:00am our choir and Madison’s Capitol organ fill the Nave with Square, inviting all to music and we use the contemporary join us in sharing the language of Rite II. love of Jesus Christ The congregation in worship and in joins the choir Behind the and organ to sing outreach to our hymns from the rich Red Doors neighbors and tradition of Anglican hymnody. On Wednesdays, you on the are welcome for an intimate, brief service during your Capitol Square: the world. lunch break. CARE & SUNDAY SERVICES 8:00am Holy Eucharist Rite I COMPASSION Spoken Word FOR THE Traditional Language COMMUNITY 10:00am Holy Eucharist Rite II & THE Choir & Organ WORLD Staffed Nursery HISTORY WEDNESDAY SERVICE 1839 16 founders establish Protestant Episcopal Parish 12:10pm Holy Eucharist Rite I 1846 Formally organized as Grace Church Spoken Word 1847 Ladies’ Benevolent Society deeds church property 1858 Construction completed, 1st service held Dec. 25 1887 1st of 12 treasured stained glass windows installed 1894 Vilas Guild Hall built 1899 Baptistery Window, designed by Tiffany 116 W. Washington Ave. 1979 Establishment of Food Pantry Madison, WI 53703 1985 Men’s homeless shelter comes to Grace [email protected] 1987 Installation of the new pipe organ & elevator (608) 255-5147 The Rev. Dr. D. Jonathan Grieser, Rector 2014 Giving Light, Giving Hope capital campaign gracechurchmadison.org gracechurchmadison.org 2016 Renovations completed ANGLICANISM OUR FAITH Fellowship Ministries • Youth Formation The roots of Grace Church Anglican faith is rooted and the Episcopal Church in and nourished by the • Bible Studies go all the way back to the Christian tradition. Holy • Adult Forum Speaker Series English Reformation of the Scripture is central to our • Grace Book Group sixteenth century. King Henry faith and practice, but we • Chancel Choir VIII broke away from the draw on the theological and • Young Adults Roman Catholic church when spiritual traditions of all of • Expanding Families Pope Clement VII refused to Christianity, East and West. • Altar Guild grant him an annulment of In the early centuries of his marriage with Catherine Christianity, intense battles • Rector’s Guild of Aragon. Through the were fought over the meaning of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, • Acolyte Ministry leadership of Archbishop of and the relationship of human and divine in Christ. Service to the Community Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, From these battles emerged the great creeds of the early • Porchlight Men’s Shelter the Church of England sought a middle way between church, especially the Nicene Creed, which defines the • First Monday Meals (Shelter guests the worship style of Roman Catholicism and the Christian faith, and which we recite every Sunday. are served dinner in the Cornelia austerity of the worship of the Calvinist tradition. But our faith is not simply a transmission of what is old. Vilas Guild Hall as they listen to live Cranmer was responsible for the translation of the We bring all of our questions to scripture and tradition— entertainment by local musicians.) liturgy into English. The Book of Common Prayer, first questions derived from our experience and from our • Tuesday Shelter Breakfasts published in 1549 and revised over the centuries to great scientific discoveries of the last half-millennium. • Meals on Wheels reflect the worship and cultures of people throughout the In conversation with scripture, tradition, and reason, we • Grace Presents (Free Saturday concert series.) world, continues to be the basis for our worship services. develop answers to these questions that are tentative but • ECW (Episcopal Church Women) faithful to both the past and present. When Henry’s daughter Elizabeth came to the throne in • A.A. Meetings 1558, the Elizabethan Settlement preserved the Church OUTREACH & MINISTRIES • Eucharistic Lay Visitors of England’s “middle way” between Catholicism and • Diocesan Haiti Project Protestantism. At the end of communion we pray, • More Just Community (Addressing racial inequity The colonists who came from England to Jamestown, “send us out in the world in Wisconsin.) and later to the other southern colonies, brought the to the work you have • United Thank Offering (UTO) Book of Common given us to do…” For Prayer with them. over 150 years, Grace With independence, Church has done just Anglicans in America that. We have hosted a needed bishops, their men’s homeless shelter own organization, and for over 30 years, and for almost 40 years, Madison-area a Book of Common families in need have been served by our Prayer that did not Food Pantry. Grace takes an active role include prayers for the in addressing social justice issues and king. The Protestant making a difference in Dane County and Episcopal Church of throughout the world. the United State was founded in 1789..