Passion Sunday
March 28th, 10:30am
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Robert Wilson, 14 Stations: Station 12, Jesus dies on the Cross
(Adams, MA: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000),
abstract sculpture. Photo by Leslie Lesley-Dils. Commissioned by the people of Oberammergau Germany to mark the 40th staging of the Passion Play.
In the 12th Station a pack of bright red eyeless wolves howl amidst a
lushly painted mountainscape mural.
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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/
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Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.
Elisabeth Elliot, Quest for Love
I pray that we may be found worthy to be cursed, censured, and ground down, and even put to death in the name of Jesus Christ, so long as Christ himself is not put to death in us. The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy.
Paulinus of Nola, Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola
What so many people today fail to realize is that forgiveness is a door to peace and happiness. Forgiving is not ignoring wrongdoing, but overcoming the evil inside us and in our world with love. To forgive is not just a command of Christ but the key to reconciling all that is broken in our lives and relationships. We get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.
Johann Christoph Arnold, Why Forgive?
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Liturgy of the Palms
The readings may be found here
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymn
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Communion Hymn
Recessional Hymn
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Pray for the Church, the Body of Christ
Please pray for those on our prayer list this week:
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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Streaming:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Passion Sunday
Black Sunday, Care Sunday, Carling Sunday,
Judica Sunday, Quiet Sunday, Silent Sunday
This usage harks back to the origins of the word. Although we associate the
English word passion with strong emotion, it in fact comes from the Latin
passio, which means "suffering." In past times the fifth Sunday in Lent was
known as Passion Sunday. This name came from one of the Bible readings
assigned to that day in Roman Catholic churches, which compared the animal sacrifices made by ancient Jewish priests with Jesus' sacrifice of his own life
(Hebrews 9:12-15).
This reading reminded the congregation of Jesus' sacrificial death, to be
commemorated the following week on Good Friday. Indeed, Passion Sunday
inaugurated a special season within Lent known as Passiontide. During
Passiontide, the last two weeks of Lent, church services turned towards the
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Masks worn by all at worship. Please bring your own!
Only one entrance. Sanitizers
will be located there.
Worshippers/households
separated by 10 feet.
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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
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Sping has sprung and our Fruitful Ministry is hard at work.
John Shasteen Emma Shasteen, David Stipe prepared the area next to Clardy Hall. Other members Abigail Stipe and Laura Funk.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed,
and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. Genesis 1:1
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What makes forgiveness an ethical issue? The Lord’s Prayer asserts the connection when we ask God to forgive us “as we forgive those who trespass against us.” In this prayer, Jesus claims God’s forgiveness of us is somehow connected with our forgiveness of others: “. . . as we forgive . . .” So forgiveness is to make a change in our behavior, in our human practices. But this assertion in the Lord’s Prayer does not explain the connection. What are the ethics of forgiveness? Click to continue reading
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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
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