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Gently Used Men's Coats to Donate to
Men Recently Released From Prison
Please bring gently used men's coats Sunday Nov.2 and drop off in parish hall. They will be taken to convention Nov. 8 for One Man's Treasure, a prison ministry dedicated to providing men who were just released from prison clothing to help them re-enter society and to have appropriate clothes for church and job interviews.
For more information contact Annette Jenkins at annette@onemanstr.org,
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10:30a.m. - November 2 ALL Souls' Day
Nov. 16, 23, 30
Mass with Father Nick (Service Bulletin
10:30a.m. - Morning Prayer - November 9
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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Today's Stewardship Pearl
For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 1:37
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The Liturgy of the Word
Readings
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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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MORSEL FOR MEDITATION
The man who claims to be a self-made man has relieved God of an embarrassing responsibility. He usually is a horrible example of unskilled labor.
-Unknown
"The cause of my irritation is not in this person but in me."
-Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
Christianity is unintelligible without enemies (2 Tim. 3:12). Indeed, the whole point of Christianity is to produce the right kind of enemies. We have been beguiled by our established status to forget that to be a Christian is to be made part of an army against armies. When Caesar becomes a member of the church the enemy becomes internalized. Our problem is no longer that the church is seen as a threat to the political order, but that now the battle is within.
-Stanley Hauerwas, Jesus Changes Everything: A New World
Made Possible (Walden, NY: Plough Publishing House, 2025), 128.
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NOVEMBER 2
COFFEE HOUR & FELLOWSHIP
Finger Foods
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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. 6, Thurs. - 8:00pm - Compline Service Via stpaulstx.org click on Facebook or Compline
Nov. 8 - EDOD Convention
Nov. 11, Tues - 6:00pm - School Board Meeting
Nov. 13, Thurs. - 8:00pm - Compline Service Via stpaulstx.org click on Facebook or Compline
Nov. 15, Sat.
- 8:00am - St. Joseph's Guild
- 9:00am - DOK Daughter's of the King
Nov. 18, Tues. 7:00pm - Vestry Meeting
Nov. 20, Thurs. - 8:00pm - Compline Service Via stpaulstx.org click on Facebook or Compline
Nov. 25, Tues - NO Ladies Nite Out
Nov. 27, Thurs. - 8:00pm - Compline Service Via stpaulstx.org click on Facebook or Compline
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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 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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Noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, November 22
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas
Join us in this fond farewell to Bishop George Sumner and Stephanie as we lovingly send them off into retirement with a global parish picnic.
Questions contact Cassie at croberts@edod.org.
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VISITATION SERMON to ST. JAMES, TEXARKANA
Stephanie and my recent trip to New Orleans and back, to see our son the brand new lawyer get sworn in by the Bar of the State of Louisiana. After the oath, a veteran lawyer encouraged the mostly young (by which I mean 30-ish) to follow their passion. You often hear something similar in commencement speech. By this he meant to pursue something you care about, which will push you forward even when you’re tired and don’t want to get on the morning street car. The words exhort the new lawyers not to get waylaid from what they think they should do by a shinier offer. Fair enough. But I do wonder where the expression ‘follow your passion’ comes from, and I do worry some about it: sometimes the things we are passionate aren’t worth it, or our passions are split, or they burn down to embers. So, to the confirmands, spoiler alert: my point of this sermon is, basically to agree, but to turn the expression in more directly Christian directions. . (continue reading)
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DIARY OF A THEOLOGIAN
Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin
THREE CONVERSATIONS
The morning runners were standing in the coffee shop, talking; I was theoretically writing in my journal but my attention was distracted. They were talking about “the city,” as in, “Are you going to the city a day early?” I thought: we’re in Dallas; what is this “city” they’re talking about? It being October, it turned out they were talking about the New York City marathon. My eyes couldn’t resist: I lifted my head to look at them. I had to see these god-like blessed humans for myself. You don’t just decide you’ll go run the NYC marathon: you have to apply and you have to have excellent running times to make the cut. Physical gods as they might have been, their conversation was young-professional practical: where to stay, what to see beforehand, whether they nabbed a good flight. (continue reading)
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