Celebrating God's Blessings, Honoring Those Who Served, From The Zucchetto - Stewardship Pearls - Prayers - Events

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

July 5, 2026

LITURGY

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 - Wed. 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

BULLETIN

JULY CALENDAR

Giving

From The Zucchetto - a.k.a. Zucchini by the PiC

Happy Birthday America!

As I write this Zucchetto article, we are returning to East Texas after a brief trip to New Orleans. As I am sure, most of you know I claim NOLA as my hometown, even though I wasn't born here (my birthplace was a Naval base in Virginia).

This weekend we are celebrating the birthday of our homeland - the United States of America. And although not all of us were born here, we claim this as our home - like I have adopted New Orleans.

The founders of this great country were mostly Christians and Jews and the bedrock principles were based on love and obedience to God our Father.

As we celebrate here at St. Paul's on Sunday, our music and our service remind us of the bounty and grace that God has bestowed on us. An addition to our service will be the Pledge of Allegiance. Did you know that the phrase "One Nation, Under God" was added to the Pledge by President Eisenhower in 1954? After experiencing the horrors of World War II and the secular trend of the post-war era, he (and the country) felt it necessary to remind the nation of this concept that had been held so dearly by our founding fathers.

So let's tip our hats to the flag and to this nation that God has so graciously bestowed on us to preserve and protect. God Bless America and may God bless us too!

In His service,

Gary+

Today’s Stewardship Pearl

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it! -Psalm 118:27

Prayers For the Church

The Daughters of the King are dedicated to supporting the prayer needs of St. Paul’s. They are available in the Chapel in the west corner of sanctuary 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. To add names to the prayer list, please contact the church office. Names will remain on the prayer list for one month unless otherwise renewed. Please pray for:

Elena Matthews, Fr. Gordon, Julia Gibson Schwartz

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July 5 - Honoring those who served

July 11, 3:00pm—Windy Hill Birthday Party for Rosa!

July 18, 8:00am—Noon—St. Joseph’s Guild

9:00am—Noon DOK Daughter’s of the King

July 19, Noon-2:00pm—Vestry Meeting

July 26, 2:00 –3:00pm—Greenville Gardens

Visitation: St. John's in Dallas - Diary of a Theologian - - Upcoming Ordination Services - Convention 2026 - Pray for Immigration Detainees

The Sin of Moses by Canon Victor Austin

A good book keeps surprising the reader. You go back ten years later and it’s as if the book has changed; it’s now better and more interesting than your memory. Of course, this change is because you the reader have changed. Re-reading a bad or just not-so-good a book, we find the book diminished, maybe just dull. But a good book keeps growing; you find new things in it every time you read it.

The Bible is, if nothing else, a good book, and some say it is the Good Book. Last week, reading along as prescribed in Morning Prayer, I discovered the Bible had more in it than I remembered. In fact, I found I had a serious misconception about one of the most important details in the Old Testament, the sin that Moses committed and on account of which he was not allowed to enter the promised land. I thought, How many times have I read this? And nonetheless, I had never noticed an important detail (and had made up a different detail)! (continue reading)