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The First Sunday of Advent
November 30, 2025
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Unknown, Christ Pantocrator
(Mt. Sinai, Egypt: St. Catherine's Monastery, 6th century), encaustic.
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Sunday, November 30
During coffee hour a special 'Performance Chalk Art' presentation by St. Paul's member, local actor, speaker, singer, chalk artist, and author James Pence.
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10:30a.m. - November 30, December 7, 21, 28
Mass with Father Nick
10:30a.m. - December 14 - Morning Prayer
SUNDAY'S - 9:45am - 10:00am Unity Prayer for our parish, our priest, our city, and the diocese.
Sanctuary - All are welcome!
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ADVENT DEVOTIONAL
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Nov. 30 - Dec. 24 receive a a free 4-week devotional emailed to you daily during this upcoming season of Advent : (November 30 - December 24). Each Sunday's email will include a previously filmed video meditation and Q&A from Tim & Kathy Keller.. Let these devotionals help you focus on the hope, joy, peace, and love that God provides us through Christ's birth. Prepare your heart for Christmas!
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MORSEL FOR MEDITATION
Don't fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.
We often treat Jesus the way Saul treated David. We want him to slay giants and sing evil spirits away but we don't want him to be King.
-A.W. Tozer
The leisure of the monks is not the privilege of those who can afford to take the time; it is the virtue of those who give to everything they do the time it deserves to take.
-David Steindl-Rast
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
-Attributed to Martin Luther
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SUNDAY WORSHIP
10:30 a.m. Live Stream
Sunday Services
on Youtube and Facebook
Repeat of Sunday services can be seen on GEUS Channel 34
Wednesdays
8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
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Catechesis Group
9:30am to 10:15am Sundays
Fellowship Hall - Drop In!
This Christmas, we invite you to join Professor Dwight Lindley as he leads us through the mysterious world of Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, the Ghosts of Christmas, and Tiny Tim in our newest online course, “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.”
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Weekday Worship
& Bible Study
WEDNESDAYS
8:00 a.m.
Morning Prayer 1 located in the Side Chapel in the south transept of the church.
10:00 a.m.
Children's Chapel
10:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer II in the Church
Bible Study
6:00pm - Wednesday
Fellowship Hall
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EVENTS
Nov. 30, First Sunday of Advent and special Coffee Hour Performance Chalk Art by James Pence.
Dec. 4, Thurs. - 8:00pm - Compline Service Via stpaulstx.org click on Facebook or Compline
Dec. 9, Tues.— 6:00pm - School Board Meeting
Dec. 13, Sat. 2-4pm - Christmas Tea, everyone welcome. RSVP by Sunday, Dec. 7 to RitaWoods 903-521-3533 with number attending.
Dec. 16, Tues.—Vestry Meeting
Dec. 20, Sat.
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8:00am St Joseph's Guild
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9:00am DOK Daughter's of the King
| | 2025-2026 Events - Opportunities to join with other small Episcopal churches for ministry and mutual edification. Please consider participating. | | Episcopal Rural Churches play an important role in the fabric of the communities they serve. They are the outposts of the rural mission field for the Gospel. Often times these small missions and parishes struggle to remain viable having limited resources and small numbers. We are: | | |
Church of St. Dunstan - Mineola
St. Phillip's - Sulphur Springs
St. Mark's - Mt. Pleasant
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Iglesia De San Marcos - Mt. Pleasant
St. Francis - Winnsboro
St. William Laud - Pittsburg
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December 17 - 6pm Blue Christmas at St. Dunstan's, Mineola. Focused on those grieving the death of a loved one.
December 20 - 5pm La Posada at San Marcos, Mt. Pleasant. It will include a meal.
January 3 - 4pm Lessons and Carols at St. William Laud, Pittsburg.
January 21 - 5:30pm ALPHA Course St. Philip's Episcopal. Sulphur Springs.
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Prayers For The Church
The Daughters of the King - DOK are dedicated to supporting the prayer needs of St Paul's. They are available in the the Side Chapel in the south transept of the church every Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. worship service for private prayer.
You can also submit intentions in the prayer box in the narthex, or to add names to the prayer list, please contact the church office.
(Names will remain on prayer list for one month unless renewed)
Please pray for: Bob Lloyd, Edward Haines
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Thanksgiving A.D. 1620/1863/60-70
Thanksgiving 1620
Who were the Founding Fathers and Mothers? Refugees and immigrants, fleeing persecution (at the hands of the Anglicans no less!) And how did they survive that first Massachusetts winter? By the provision, of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance by the indigenous People they met, at Plymouth among other places. We now live in a political scene where the perspective of some might be described as ‘nativist’, but we would do well to recall our story, in a manner that leads to humility and self-knowledge. So the holiday can become a distant mirror on our time. (continue reading)
Diary of a Theologian
Remarks At The Sumner's Fiesta
I was touched to be asked to speak at the fiesta in which we in Dallas celebrated Bishop George Sumner and his wife, Stephanie Hodgkins. What I ventured was a little “Sumnerian” frame, a miniature of theology. It was a sunny and pleasant Saturday afternoon; it was November 22; we were gathered outside on the cathedral green. But November 22 is a sober day. It is the day that, 63 years ago, the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was killed; the assassination took place in Dallas. But there’s more. Seven hours earlier that same day Aldous Huxley, a then-famous skeptical agnostic, died of painful oral cancer. Then just an hour before the President was shot, C. S. Lewis collapsed in his bedroom, dying of end-stage kidney failure. (continue reading)
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