Loaves and fishes mosaic in Church of the Multiplication at Tabgna.

The floor mosaic near the altar shows a basket of loaves flanked by 2 Galilee mullet.

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

AUGUST CALENDAR

Giving

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

Several weeks ago, I asked you, the Saints of St. Paul’s, to send me questions about religious matters so that, when I was bereft of ideas, I would have a question from a Saint to answer.

The first and only question I have received so far is this:

“Does the term ‘repose of the soul’ have several layers of meaning or does it simply mean ‘rest in peace’?”

And here, with the help of AI and what is left of my brain, is the best answer that I can produce.

THE LONG ANSWER (but it could be FAR longer).

(click to continue)

Today’s Stewardship Pearl

The things which are impossible with men are

possible with God. -Luke 18:27

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:

Rhonda Lunney, Heather Green, Fr. Gordon, Julia Gibson Schwartz

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We want to thank everyone who has contributed to the piano to date, and let you know we are a 1/4 of the way to our goal of $13,000 which includes the price of the piano, moving and tuning.

This is the actual piano, a 7 foot 6 inch Semi-Concert Grand Piano Kawai KG-7D . Beautiful!

You can donate by check (payable to St. Paul's Episcopal Church put piano in memo), cash or follow instructions below using the QR Code.

THANK

YOU!

Aug. 11 6:00pm—7:00pm—Meet the Teacher night at SPES

St. Paul’s Episcopal School

Aug. 15 8:00am-Noon— St. Joseph’s Guild

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

Aug 16 Noon-2:00pm—Vestry Meeting

Aug. 27 6:00pm - Healing Service - St. Philip's Sulphur Springs,

1206 E. College Ave

Aug. 30, Potluck following service

Aug. 30, 2:00 - 3:00pm, Greenville Gardens

Aug. 30, 5:00-6:00pm - Part One of a 4 session series on Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Dallas, St. Matthew's Cathedral Get your copy and start reading the first “Part”: a great book awaits you. (Part One is “Books” 1-3, about 150 pages in many translations.)

Nov. 6-7, Diocesan Convention 2026

Visitation: St. Philip's Sudanese, Garland - Healing Prayer Service - Diary of a Theologian - Stanton Institute Registration Open - Ancient Vows Modern Life - Pen Pal Outreach - An Evening with the Clergy & N.T. Wright - Build A Legacy of Faith - Convention 2026 - Pray for Immigration Detainees

LORD HAVE MERCY, CHRIST HAVE MERCY by Canon Victor Austin

From time to time I plan to reflect on the implications of AI for theological anthropology, the Christian understanding of being human. The first puzzle-piece concerns AI’s capacity to eliminate jobs.

Among the jobs that (some say) AI will eliminate is the job of a coder, a person who writes code for computer programs. In businesses heretofore, a new coder hire would receive instructions to write a program (code) that does specified things. There would be a middle manager, overseeing the work of several programmers and seeing that everything in a particular project fit together to meet expectations. This obviously is a very complicated division of labor, often involving more lines of code than any one person could comprehend. In this complex situation, middle managers don’t write code themselves. Yet it is significant they could write any part of the code if necessary, since they were once coders themselves. (continue reading)