Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
August 8, 2021 - 8am & 10:30am
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Tuesday, August 10 - 9am - 11am
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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"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him to Truth." --- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), cited in Josef Pieper, Drostan MacLaren, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas (Papamoa Press, 2019).
Anglican teaching. Although it is sometimes said in Anglican circles that Scripture, tradition and reason form a 'threefold cord' which restrains and directs the church, and although there are not lacking those who regard these three as having equal authority, yet official pronouncements continue to uphold the primary, the supreme authority of Scripture, while accepting the important place of tradition and reason in the elucidation of Scripture. Thus, the report on the Bible issued by the 1958 Lambeth Conference contained this heartening statement: 'The Church is not "over" the Holy Scriptures, but "under" them, in the sense that the process of canonization was not one whereby the Church conferred authority on the books but one whereby the Church acknowledged them to possess authority. And why? The books were recognized as giving the witness of the Apostles to the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of the Lord and the interpretation by the Apostles of these events. To that apostolic authority the Church must ever bow.' John R.W. Stott, The Authentic Jesus: The Certainty of Christ in a Skeptical World (Intervarsity Press, 1985), 89-90..
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Caspar David Friedrich,
The Cross on the Baltic
(Berlin: Charlottenburg Palace, c. 1815),
oil on canvas. Height: 45 cm (17.7 in); Width: 33.5 cm (13.1 in).
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Collect
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; 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
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Processional Hymn
Gospel Hymn
Offertory Hymns
H653
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Communion Hymns
Recessional Hymn
H473
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The flowers are given to the glory of God
by Jo and the Dodson family
in loving memory of Fred Dodson.
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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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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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It seems that when we walk, we are creating in our brains some sort of map of the world. One theory today is that the move to bipedalism – standing up on our own hind legs and starting to get around on them – was a key moment in human evolution. Whether that theory is correct is disputed (we are hardly the only bipedal creatures – some dinosaurs and all birds share this, with varying evolutionary results). But it surely is significant: we humans have been flying through the air (and now just beyond the air) for hardly a century; likewise with cars and trains. Compared with hundreds of thousands of years, a century is a mere rounding error.
So it makes sense to think of our “thinking” as deeply connected to walking. If we peel off the headphones and simply walk, what happens?
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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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