Hello faith family! Sunday is the Last Sunday after Epiphany – February 27, 2022, Year A. Services are held in-person with precautions and online via our YouTube channel. See the Worship Schedule below. Please do not hesitate to contact the office or Fr. Howie with any questions or concerns about these options. We are listening to the experts and considering how to best keep our faith family safe during this pandemic.
See the St. Thomas’s Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for news and events information for this week. This Sunday, February 27, 2022, there is no Sunday morning adult education series – From a boatful, to billions: An absurdly short history of Christianity. You will find a brief introduction to Fr. Howie’s Lenten devotional, the Ash Wednesday and Lenten season worship schedule, a reminder of the Shrove Tuesday dessert party on March 1, 2022, and a plea from me for Crocus pictures from the Grove.
Worship this Week:
- Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person with precautions and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
- Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person with precautions and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
- Wednesday at noon – Intercessory Prayer with Holy Communion in-person with precautions. Here is the accompanying booklet.
- NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER on February 23, 2022.
- Wednesday, March 2, 2022, is Ash Wednesday with services at 7 a.m. (spoken), noon (spoken), and 7 p.m. with music.
- Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. Here is the accompanying booklet.
Sunday Schedule:
- Sundays at 8:00 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite I spoken, in-person with precautions and online at our YouTube channel (8:00 booklet).
- Sundays at 9 a.m. (except Feb. 27) – Adult Education in the parlor and live via Zoom (1/30-3/13/22): From a boatful, to billions: An absurdly short history of Christianity.
- Sundays at 9 a.m. – Youth Confirmation in the Undercroft.
- Sundays at 10:15 a.m. – Children’s Ministries in the Undercroft.
- Sundays at 10:30 a.m. – Holy Eucharist, Rite II with music, in-person with precautions and online at our YouTube channel (10:30 booklet).
- Beginning March 6, 2022, Sundays at 5:00 p.m. during Lent – Lenten service with Holy Eucharist
Other Parish Events:
- Monday, February 21, 2022 – Hope Dining Room outreach
- Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. – 2 Saints Readers March 2022 series on “Soul Stages” by Christopher Moore.
- Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
- Thursdays at 10 a.m. – St. Nicholas Parish invites you to Adult Education, live via Zoom (2/3-2/24/22): Christianity: the first 1500 years.
- Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. – Dessert PARTY on Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday.
- Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season worship schedule.
In this strange pandemic time, the church is aware that some of its members are struggling to make ends meet. If you are in this situation, please let the clergy know of your needs, pray for the church, and feel no guilt about your giving. But if you are able to give, options for giving include mailing a check to your church or online giving.
If you have anything to add to the Parish calendar or the Carpenter’s Helper newsletter, please email the office at StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com.
To see all events or news, visit our website, check FaceBook, or check out the posted events on the board next to the name tag station. Recent Newsletters, Sermons, or Announcements are also available.
Regardless of whether we are together in-person or virtually, we are connected by the Holy Spirit: Always together; never apart…maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644