ST. PAUL'S

EPISCOPAL CHURCH

GREENVILLE, TX

The Twelth Sunday after Pentecost

August 11, 2024

Fritz Eichenberg, Christ of the Breadlines (1953), wood engraving.

Aug. 18, Sun. 10:00am —Please join us to discuss being an Acolyte! If you are in Junior High School or older, we would love to have you join us to ask questions about this important ministry. Please come find out what it’s all about and how you can serve! Also, if you are already serving in this ministry. please come for refresher training. 

Acolyte Prayer - Be present to me, Lord Jesus and grant that I may faithfully and loyally serve you in love and that my service as acolyte today may be offered in your name to God’s glory. Amen.

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MORSEL FOR MEDITATION

Screwtape (a senior demon) said, “A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”

C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can even prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness

Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1863



Sunday's: 9:30-10:15am

Adult Catechesis in the Christian Church

Fellowship Hall. Join Laura Funk on the adventure as we learn church history, the creeds, councils, and confessions, the major theological debates, heroes, doctrines, lots of fun stuff in our long, long history as followers of Jesus Christ as the world wide church. Thousands of years of hundreds of major and minor characters, councils, state rulers, infighting, struggles, compromises, theology, structure, political maneuvering, grace, and truth.

Grow in your knowledge, exercise your mind, learn together on this grand adventure of faith in following our Lord Jesus Christ.-----

"Coffee on the burner. No homework. Just come and stay a while."

RITE 2 WORSHIP BOOKLET

The Liturgy of the Word

• 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
• Psalm 130
• Ephesians 4:25-5:2
• John 6:35, 41-51

BULLETIN

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

Wednesdays

8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

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Altar flowers are given to the greater glory of God

by Jo Dodson and in celebration of their son Christopher’s birthday

and Jo and Fred’s anniversary.

Thank you on behalf of the children and teachers of St. Paul’s Episcopal School for your generous donation of school supplies! You can still bring supplies this Sunday, August 11.

Please contact the following sponsors for further details or questions: Debbie Shaffer, President of SPES, any Outreach Committee member, or any ECW member.

Click to View School Supplies

Tickets & Sponsorships

Individual - $25

1 Table of 8 - $300

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Sponsorship Levels

St. Paul's Young Adult Fellowship

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stpaulstx

Follow on Facebook for info on time and location. We focus on deep dives into scripture, discovering enriching pathways through God's Word and fellowship with one another.

The group studies one book at a time and meets on a weekly basis whenever possible at a rotating set of locations. In order to get involved, shoot us a message!

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FROM THE SEARCH COMMITTEE

The Bishop Search Committee has scheduled several Listening Sessions to hear from you. These will be important discussions as we gather to prayerfully consider the issues and share what each of us sees as the needs of the diocese.

8/27 Priests, Church of the Incarnation, 10am - 12pm

8/27 Priests, Church of the Incarnation, 2pm - 4pm

8/29 Deacons, St. Matthew's Cathedral, 10am - 12pm

8/29 Diocesan Staff, St. Matthew's Cathedral, 2pm - 4pm

9/3 Lay People, St. Philip's Sulphur Springs 6pm - 8pm

9/5 Lay People, St. Ann's Desoto 6pm - 8pm

9/7 Lay People, St. Philip's Frisco, 10am - 12pm

9/7 Lay People, St. James Dallas, 2pm - 4pm

9/10 ZOOM ONLY Session for those who are unable to attend in-person sessions, 6pm – 8pm

To read full article click on "Around The Diocese"

and it is after the Bishop's Blog.

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AROUND THE DIOCESE

Discipleship Conference - Sept. 24-26

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School of Healing Prayer Level 1 - Class starts: Aug. 16

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Bishop's Blog: Metropolitan Dream Center Prayer Breakfast

Diary of a Theologian: About That Wall, Canon Victor Austin