Fifth Sunday in Lent
March 21st, 10:30am
The Faces of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption
(New York: powerHouse Books, 2005), black and white photograph. Permission for onetime use granted on March 2, 2021.
|
|
MANY HANDS NEEDED
Saturday, 20 March - 8:30AM - 12 Noon
We will be working outside. This last extreme cold/snow storm has blessed us with plenty of oak leaves and other items that need to be picked up and discarded or cleaned up.
Wear a floppy hat and bring gardening tools and leaf rakes. The workday is cancelled if it rains.
Please volunteer, your church needs you.
Contact the Jr. Warden, Frank E. McKee if you wish to volunteer
|
|
Easter Lily Donation-Dedication
We invite everyone wishing to submit a dedication for Easter Lilies to email: stpeventsepiscopal@gmail.com or text/call 903-268-0534 (Georgianna).
Include if it's in:"Memory, Celebration, Thanksgiving, etc." The Dedication and who it is From. If you wish to make a donation in any amount: http://stpaulstx.org/giving/
|
|
Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by with ugly and spiteful words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, revolting and godless, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don’t know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. Love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labor. For we must love not only occasionally, for a moment, but forever.
Fyoder Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov,
as quoted in The Gospel in Dostoyevsky
|
|
COLLECT
Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
The readings may be found here
|
|
Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymn
|
|
Communion Hymn
New music (music) A3#
Recessional Hymn
H# 473
|
|
Pray for the Church, the Body of Christ
Please pray for those on our prayer list this week:
|
|
Please Pray for those on
our prayer list this week:
Gail Rolston and Family,
Rita Woods and family, Jincy Jones, Beverly Gish,
Bob Lanier, Ken Gunter,
Dana Medford, Marcy Walsh, Paula Reeves, Mike Lavigne,
Dolores & Father Gordon,
Contact our church office to
add a name to our prayer list: 903-455-5030. Names remain
for one month unless
renewed or canceled.
|
|
We also pray for our Daughters of the King Ministry as they bring their strength and service together by praying for friends and for the people.
You may also add people to the list by filling out a DOK confidential prayer card and putting them in the blue box located in the Narthex.
|
|
|
PRAYER REQUESTS & BOX
The Daughters of the King support your prayer needs and wishes. Each Sunday a prayer team will be available to pray with you after the Worship Service in the choir area after the 10:30 service. If you would like additional information, please see a DOK member.
They also have a intercessory prayer box on the table in the Narthex to deposit prayer requests. Prayer request cards may be found in the pews and beside the box in the Narthex. Daughters pray daily. All prayers are confidential. Each person is prayed for one month. If you wish for continued prayers, please complete another request card or contact a Daughter.
You may call the church office (903-455-5030) and specify it is for the DOK intercessory prayer list. You can hand the card to a Daughter (she is always wearing her cross).
|
|
You can make your checks payable to "St. Paul's Episcopal Church" and mail them to:
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
8320 Jack Finney Blvd.
Greenville, TX 75402
|
|
|
Streaming:
Since we’re doing so much online our Google, YouTube, Facebook reviews are particularly important. Please take the time to give us a 5-star review! : https://g.page/r/CfEFxlXVrQvbEAg/review
-
Our Sunday services are available live at 10:25 am (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCmlrRFxbQF7CSAnFS8H9FA) and Facebook (https://facebook.com/stpaulsepiscopalgreenville). Our recorded Sunday service is broadcast on the GEUS community Channel (Channel 34) on Wednesdays at 8 am and 6 pm. Previously recorded services may be accessed anytime on our Facebook and YouTube pages. The recorded sermons may be found on our website as MP3s.
-
Remote Eucharist continues, and a few parishioners are helping me to distribute the Eucharist to parishioners’ homes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please let me know by email if you’d like to receive the Holy Sacrament remotely. The best way to contact me is fathernickfunk@gmail.com.
- The Parish office remains closed; however we continue to check voicemails and emails regularly.
-
The St. Paul’s Zoom Meeting may be found at https://zoom.us/j/9037772020. Our Meeting ID is: 903 777 2020. To call in, use one tap mobile: +13462487799,,9037772020# or to dial: +1 346 248 7799.
-
Morning Prayer on Wednesdays at 10:30 via a Zoom meeting, and upload it live if Zoom and Facebook work together (about 75% success rate).
|
|
Masks worn by all at worship. Please bring your own!
Only one entrance. Sanitizers
will be located there.
Worshippers/households
separated by 10 feet.
|
|
No tactile passing of the Peace
Indoor services will not have congregational singing.
Collection plate placed at
entrance to the Nave
Bread only communion distributed within Diocesan protocols.
Join us for coffee hour
|
|
|
What A Pleasure to See You
It had been months, and I had wondered about him. When you go out early on the trail, you get to know by sight the regulars. He was easily recognized: hunched over from (one surmised) an injury or disease along life’s way, yet persistent and cheerful, generally looking up and waving at passers by.
It seemed his daily walk began somewhere near my apartment, so I started saying “Good morning, neighbor,” as we passed each other. After a few weeks of that, he replied in a voice that was resonant and deep. I didn’t quite get it. I stopped and he repeated: “The name’s Dale” [I’ve changed it for this blog post]. Again, “The name’s Dale.” We shook hands and I told him mine.
He was better at remembering than I. He’d see me, wave, say, “Good morning, Victor.” But after some embarrassing days, I finally remembered. “Good to see you, Dale.”
And then Covid came, and he was gone. I didn’t know his last name, didn’t know where he lived, didn’t know if he had moved away, or was ill, or for that matter even alive. Click to continue reading
|
|
Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Podcasts
Daily podcast from the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas offers a reflection on scripture from the Old Testament Reading of the Daily Office Morning Prayer.
These podcasts can be found on our Facebook page
|
|
SUPPORT ST. PAUL'S WITH YOUR SHOPPING |
|
|
|
When you shop at smile.amazon.com |
|
|
|
|
|
|
