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Weekly E-pistle
Second Sunday of Advent
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N. Kovács Mária, John the Baptist statue in Old Lake (Tata, Hungary: 1989), bronze sculpture. |
COLLECT: Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
READINGS:
Malachi 3:1-4
Philippians 1:3-11
Luke 3:1-6
Canticle 16
Processional Hymn
On Jordan’s bank the Baptists cry
(Winchester New) H# 72
Gospel Hymn
Hark the glad sound! The Savior comes (Richmond) H#76
Offertory Hymn
Savior of the nations, come! (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland) H#54
Communion Hymn
Seek Ye First (A3#139)
Bind Us Together (A3#118)
Recessional Hymn
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord (Woodlands) H#438 (Lyrics)
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Morsel for Meditation
He assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the Temple; he drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; he cured diseases by any means that came handy, with a shocking casualness in the matter of other people’s pigs and property; he showed no proper deference for wealth or social position; when confronted with neat dialectical traps, he displayed a paradoxical humor that affronted serious-minded people, and he retorted by asking disagreeably searching questions that could not be answered by rule of thumb. He was emphatically not a dull man in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either. But he had “a daily beauty in his life that made us ugly,” and officialdom felt that the established order of things would be more secure without him. So they did away with God in the name of peace and quietness.
Dorothy Sayers:
The Gospel in Dorothy Sayers
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Pray for the Church,
the Body of Christ
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Please pray for those on our prayer list this week:
Marie and Ken Gunter, Ginger Higgins, Bob Lanier, Jimmy Herring and Family, Dana Medford, Elaine Bottone, Father Gordon, Julia Gibson, Beverly Gish,
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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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 an 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).
| Thank you Laura Funk for preparing the cross for Advent |
The Second Week of Advent reminds us that living an upright
life alone is not enough. We must submit ourselves in humility
to the will of God.
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6:00pm Dinner
6:30 - 7:30pm
DVD & Discussion
Hosts: Elizabeth Porter, Frank McKee,
Marie Aughtry
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WEDNESDAYS
10:30am Morning Prayer click for streaming instructions.
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NO BIBLE STUDY
Will Resume Jan.
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SAT. DEC. 4TH
11am - 1pm
ECW Ornament Exchange
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SUN. DEC. 12th 12:30 - ECW Baby Card Shower & Diaper Drive for
Raffa Clinic
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WED. DEC. 15th 6:30pm - School Christmas Pageant.
Needed: Material/ fabric for costumes
• shiny white/gold, light blue, creams, browns • Ropes for belts - shiny gold, blue, purple for wise men • Felt
Click if you can help
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SAT. DEC. 18th
8:00am - St. Joseph’s Guild
9:00am – DOK
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SUN. DEC. 19th
Greening of Church
ECW Shut-in Basket Delivery
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FRI. DEC. 24th
Christmas EVe
7pm (in-person & streamed)
10:30pm - Carols
(in-person only)
11pm Midnight Mass
(in-person only)
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SAT. DEC. 25th
No Christmas
Day Services
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Coffee Hour Christmas Competition
Each Week we will have a different theme, and everyone is invited to contribute! Each week we will take a vote, and the winner will received a coffee at the Texan Theater cafe!
Dec. 5th - Trifles: a dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake, can be soaked with wine or spirits (such as brandy or rum) and topped with layers of preserves, custard, and cream.
Dec 12: Chili; Dec 19: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Christmas Breads
| Congratulations to David Clegg winner of last week's 'Dips and Chips' challenge with his Queso recipe. |
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
Sunday services are available live 10:25am YOUTUBE and FACEBOOK
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STEWARDSHIP
You can make your checks payable to
"St. Paul's Episcopal Church" and mail to:
St. Paul's
Episcopal Church
8320 Jack Finney Blvd.
Greenville, TX 75402
You can also make your donations at http://stpaulstx.org/giving/ to make a donation using your credit or debit card via PayPal or Tithe.ly.
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Giving for Jesus
Living for Jesus
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Advent Devotional - Sign up at https://mailchi.mp/gospelinlife/advent
for a free devotional emailed to you daily during Advent Each Sunday's email will include a video medi-tation and Q&A from Tim & Kathy Keller.
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We are called by God in many ways in our time, but a number of these ways come back to rediscovering the being-with side of the life given to us by God. To encourage this rediscovery, this series will be considering ‘Communion’ from a number of angles. I hope you will read it in conjunction with the missionary epistles from our own Fr. Trent Pettit, whose calling to serve in the Province of Egypt also opens our eyes to that ‘mutual responsibility and interdependence in the Body of Christ.’
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Lessons and Carols
Dec.12, Sunday - 5pm
St. John's Episcopal, 848 Harter Rd, Dallas. The children's and adult choirs and instrumentalists present festive music of Advent and Christmas as the nativity story is read by members of the community. Reception follows
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