Christ Church Cambridge

The Music Program at Christ Church Cambridge is about community, outreach, education and pastoral care; but most of all, it is about worship of the Almighty.

Liturgical music embraces the arts to lift the senses and to illuminate the themes of the Lectionary through Scripture and poetry rendered to enhance meaning and to help embed them in our memory. It encourages, and nurtures, a community that listens responsively, increasing active participation through emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual engagement.

In addition to continual congregational participation, the Music Program at Christ Church consists of the Youth Choir, the Adult Choir, the Evensong Choir, the Handbell Choir, the Music Committee and various organ committees. In all, more than 100 volunteers serve in this regular capacity.

The Concert Series is intended both as a community bond and as a channel for reaching people who may not have visited Christ Church previously.

Music in worship is an integral part of prayer, a way of expressing thanks or lamentation, asking forgiveness; it is a source of familiarity and enjoyment, a participatory, accessible means of reaching people at a basic spiritual level transcending language. It is an ideal tool for all people to praise God.

"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord: and to sing praises unto thy Name, O most Highest."

- Psalm 92:1