Congregational Meeting

We had 36 for the service which included a Congregational meeting.This is an annual event where at the least elect new Vestry members to serve a 3 year term.

This was one of the most of the unusual Sundays at St. Peter’s, combining ancient liturgy of the 2nd/3rd century Christian experience with the congregation meeting. The liturgy were using comes from two ancient sources. Todays Eucharistic Prayer comes from the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome, written early in the second century, for the Eucharistic Prayer. The closing prayer is from the Didache, or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, believed to have been written in the late first century or early second century. This morphed into the Congregational Meeting which followed an agape meal or love feast used in certain religious meals among early Christians that seem to have been originally closely related to the Eucharist.