Twenty-third Sunday After Pentecost October 31, 2021
8am & 10:30am
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To all who came out on Saturday and helped make our St. Paul's Episcopal School Fall Festival and 50th Anniversary Bash a success!
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Saturday, November 6th, Suzanne Taylor and I will attend the
Dallas Diocesan Convention as delegates. The Diocese has asked that each church select one of their ministries to support that day.
We have selected One Man's Treasure whose mission seeks to empower men recently released from prison who come to the Dallas and Fort Worth area by providing them with clothing and opportunities for networking.
If you would like to donate to this cause, please put your donation in the offering plate this Sunday dedicated to One Man's Treasure.
Thank you,
Jennifer Faunce
"I needed clothes and you clothed me,I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."
Matthew 25:36
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WEDNESDAYS
NO Morning Prayer November 3rd
Will resume November 10th
7-8pm - BIBLE STUDY
Join David and Lisa Gish and
Kids Bible Study: Rita Woods and Jacob Faunce
for Wednesday Evening Bible Study in Clardy Hall.
Pizza provided to feed the body; Word of God to feed the Soul
10am - Saturday, November 6th
ECW ballot meeting in Clardy Hall, breakfast provided
8am - Thursday, November 11th
All Veterans are welcome to attend a special Veterans' Day breakfast and short program put on by the students of
St. Paul's Episcopal School in Clardy Hall.
If you plan to come, please call or email the church office or call the school at (903)455-8775 so that we can we can be sure to prepare plenty of breakfast!
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude:
Three Meditations on the Christian Life
(Ave Maria Press, 2004), 38.
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in Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794).
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"The Clod and the Pebble" is a poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794). In the poem, a personified clod (a small clump of earth or clay) and pebble put forward two very different definitions of love. The clod, representing the more optimistic—and perhaps naive—perspective, views love as a kind of radical selflessness, in which giving and self-sacrifice are all-important. The pebble disagrees, declaring instead that love is in fact pure selfishness, something that only seeks to please itself. In the end, the poem leaves it up to the reader to make up their own mind about the true nature of love.
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Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; 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
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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:
Ken Gunter, Marie Hale,
Ginger Higgins, Elaine Bottone
Jimmy Herring and Family, Dana Medford, Robb Horn,
Father Gordon
Julia Gibson, Beverly Gish,
Bob Lanier, Marcy Walsh,
Mike Lavigne
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 ptting 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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More Than Costumes and Candy |
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October 31st, All Hallows' Eve, (Hallowe'en) the Church traditionally held a vigil when worshippers would prepare themselves with prayers and fasting prior to the feast days known as All Saints' Day, November 1st and All Souls' Day on November 2nd honoring the saints and praying for the souls of the recently departed.
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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 walked to the gym, and afterwards went to a coffee shop to recover and read. Then I walked home. When more than an hour after leaving the gym I got to the gate of my apartment complex and pulled out my keys from my gym shorts, I found: they were not my keys.
At once I got in my car and drove back to the gym. I thought of the worry—if not more—that someone had gone through. I was practicing speeches in my head, trying to explain how I had taken the wrong keys. I had “excuses”: they were similar to mine; I was stressed; and so forth. I realized that if the owner had incurred expenses I should pay them. I also realized that with a bit more thought, a bit more attentiveness to things outside of me, I might well have never picked up his keys.
When I arrived and told the desk clerk that I had left with someone else’s keys, the owner, who was nearby, jumped up with happy face and raised hands. “I knew someone would come back with them!” he said. I tried to say some of my prepared speech, but he heard nothing of it. He was glad just to have the keys.
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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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