Join us for Celebration worship services, in-person and online, every Sunday at 10 a.m.

Celebration Worship Service, February 2nd, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Celebration is back in the sanctuary! Masks are optional, but encouraged. You also may watch the service on a live stream at home. Please use this option if you aren’t feeling well. To learn more about these choices, please visit mpcfamily.org/celebrate. In order to keep everyone healthy & safe, we will:

  • encourage masking when indoors
  • run the furnace filtration system for ventilation, doors and windows open only when necessary

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In celebration this week:

  • Marcia Roy will play a prelude, “The Life of the Blessed”, by Michael Praetorius
  • Rev. Ben Daniel will welcome everyone to Celebration
  • Jean Gregory will lead us in a Call to Celebration (by Louise Gough, adapted from her Candlemas prayer)
  • the opening hymn will be “Mary and Joseph Came to the Temple”
  • next Jean will lead us in a Prayer for Peace (an Irish prayer on St. Brigid’s Day)
  • then it’s Time with Children
  • Invitations are next
  • the MPC Choir, led by Kim Rankin, will sing “O lux beatissima”, by Howard Helvey
  • Jean will read from the scriptures, Luke 2:22-40
  • Katie Kilby will offer a sermon
  • the Hymn of Response will be “Jesus the Light of the World”
  • then the offering plates will be passed, while Kim plays “The King of Love My Shepherd Is”, an Irish melody, arr. Dan Forrest
  • Communion is next
  • the closing hymn will be “Christ, Whose Glory fills the Skies”
  • we will recite the Charge
  • there will be a benediction
  • followed by a postlude from Marcia, “Lauda Anima”, arr. John Goss


The Charge (say together) Go out into the world in peace. Have courage; hold on to what is good. Return no one evil for evil. Strengthen the faint-hearted, support the weak, and help the suffering. Honor all people. Care for Creation. Love and serve God, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Celebration live stream recordings

Every week, we post a live stream recording to YouTube. You can view information about those live stream recordings and access a link to the playlist on our Celebration Recordings page.