Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
August 1, 2021 - 8am & 10:30am
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Sunday, August 1:
12pm ECW General Meeting
We invite you to join us in parlor
or attend remotely via Zoom
All women of the church are members,
and encouraged to attend. Please join us!
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Saturday, August 21: St. Joseph’s Guild meets at 8am;
DOK meets at 9am; AED refresher at 9:30am
Saturday, August 28: St. Paul’s has reserved the Hunt County Paintball field for August 28th at 10:00 am. Members and friends will be welcome.
Sunday, August 29: Vestry will sponsor a Parish Potluck.
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“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”
Michael Horton, Christless Christianity:
The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
(Baker Publishing, 2008), 211.
The image of a sweet, gentle Savior, like the thought of an all-loving God, is wonderful, but it is only a small part of the picture. It insulates us from the real power of his touch. Christ comforts and heals, saves and forgives – we know that; but we must not forget that he judges too. If we truly love him, we will love everything in him; not only his compassion and mercy, but his sharpness too. It is his sharpness that prunes and purifies.
J. Heinrich Arnold,
Freedom from Sinful Thoughts
(Plough Publishing, 1997), 74.
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Anonymous,
Christ the Savior
“Bread of Life”
(Sumy, Ukraine: Savior’s Transfiguration Cathedral, c. 18th century), icon.
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Collect
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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The readings may be found here Track 1
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymns
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Communion Hymns
Recessional Hymn
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The MEMORIAL FUND OF St. Paul's Episcopal Church
GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE FOLLOWING GIFTS:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF BILL ROLSTON
by
JANET NELSON
&
JAMES & JEANNE ADAMS
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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:
Julia Gibson, Beverly Gish,
Bob Lanier, 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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The Outreach Committee invites you to donate to the children of St. Paul’s Episcopal School by using the link below:
In addition, your gifts of love may be made by check marked as restricted donations to “Angel Wishes” to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Thank you for your continued love and support of these precious children!
Debbie Shaffer
Vestry and School Board Member
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'Diary of a 2-year-old' by Dejah Roman, while written through the eyes of a toddler, sometime in our adult life we may find we also face similar frustrations and need a hug.
From the diary of a 2-year-old:
Today I woke up and wanted to get dressed by myself but was told “No, we don’t have time, let me do it.”
This made me sad.
I wanted to feed myself for breakfast but was told,
“No, you’re too messy, let me do it for you.”
This made me feel frustrated.
I wanted to walk to the car and get in on my own but was told, “No, we need to get going, we don’t have time. Let me do it.”
This made me cry.
I wanted to get out of the car on my own but was told “No, we don’t have time, let me do it.”
This made me want to run away.
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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
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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.
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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.
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I was about ten, in my doctor’s office, having been taken there directly from the playground where my arm had been broken. My adult surmise is that since it was a simple break my doctor was able to set it in his office. What I remember is they put gauze over my nose and mouth and told me to close my eyes and breathe. I remember seeing elephants. Then I was awake and found my arm was in a cast.
They had been dripping ether onto my mask, and I fell asleep from it. For those who were watching, time passed as normal. My mother was beside me, and told me later of nausea as I came out of it. Of that, too, I have no memory. For me, that was just missing time, a strip of some few minutes that had been snipped out of my life. I fell asleep, I woke up—and for me, there was nothing in between.
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OPEN DIOCESAN BUDGET MEETING FOR 2022
Thursday, August 5th at 7:00pm
The meeting will be held via Zoom. Those wishing to participate will be sent a copy of the preliminary budget along with the Zoom link & password (via email) prior to the meeting.
Please let us know if you'd like to attend!
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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.
Every day throughout the year we’ll be bringing you an audio
scripture reading from the Old and New Testament.
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