Online Worship at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Join us for worship this Tuesday, December 24, for The Nativity of our Lord with The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Celebrant and The Rev. Dr. Philip DeVaul, Preacher.This worship service is also available as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, December 22, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us on Wednesday, December 22, for The Longest Night, led by the Rev. Joyce Keeshin with special music by Jerika Hayes. This gentle contemplative service is for those seeking comfort. This worship service is available here and through our Online Worship podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple podcast, Stitcher, and Spotify or simply ask your smart speaker to play the podcast "The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Online Worship."

On Christmas Eve in 1918, Eric Milner-White, Dean of King's College, Cambridge, offered a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols to the city of Cambridge. The service has since become a worldwide holiday tradition. The success of the Christmas Eve service prompted Milner-White to craft a service of Advent Lessons and Carols for the first Sunday of Advent in 1934. Our own service is adapted from this form, and it calls to mind through word and song the joyful expectation of Advent. The Lessons and Carols service was for many years a staple at Church of the Redeemer, and we hope, as we return to this beautiful service, that it will become once again an annual tradition for our entire parish and for the city of Cincinnati. Listen in during the week before Christmas and meditate on a series of carols, hymns, readings, and the seven great "O" Antiphons, one of the great Medieval inheritances of the Church. O come, Emmanuel!

Join us for worship this Sunday, December 15, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, December 8, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, December 1, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, November 17, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Baptism with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, November 17, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Baptism with The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, November 10, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Celebrant and The Rev. Joanna Leiserson, Preacher.This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, November 3, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, October 27, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Melanie Slane, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, October 13, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Herschel Wade, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, October 6, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Melanie Slane, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

"So are there other Republicans at the church?" he asked me. And I laughed. I laughed because it was a great question, asked directly, and without a hint of irony or cynicism. My breakfast companion was sitting across from me at a local diner when he asked this question. He is getting to know Church of the Redeemer, but he's been an Episcopalian for his whole life - maybe longer. And as a Republican, he knows the drill. There are, for the record, plenty of Republicans at Redeemer, and in the Episcopal Church. 39% of Episcopalians, to be precise, identify as Republican. Not a small number. But compared to, say evangelical Christians, 56% of which identify as Republican, Episcopal culture simply feels a little more politically liberal. Plus, Cincinnati is a Democratic leaning city in a Republican leaning state. So that skews our congregation's numbers a bit as well. I laughed because, it was a lovely, vulnerable question. We live in such a heated and politically divided time. And I won't even bemoan that. I think it makes sense that things are heated and divided. I don't like it. But I think I get it. To many people - myself included - it feels as if the soul of our country is currently on the line, and how we navigate these next few years will be profoundly decisive. At the same time, we are getting more and more accustomed to living in self-selected bubbles based on common interest or affinity. So if he's getting to know Redeemer, he wants to know if it's a bubble. And that is a vulnerable question, because he's sitting there over his eggs benedict asking, "Is there a place for me?" It takes courage to wonder that aloud, and it filled my heart with love. I laughed, because, and I told him this immediately, not two minutes earlier, another Republican parishioner had just texted me to congratulate me on my 8th anniversary of ministry at Redeemer. "See?" I joked, "Republicans!"

Join us for worship this Sunday, September 29, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Joyce Keeshin, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, September 22, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and The Rev. Melanie Slane, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, September 15, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Celebrant and The Rev. Philip DeVaul Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, August 8, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Melanie Slane Celebrant and The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade, Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/

Join us for worship this Sunday, September 1, for Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music. with The Rev. Philip DeVaul, Celebrant and Preacher. This worship service is also available live at 9:00 am on Sunday, and as a video following that at https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/online-worship/