Hello faith family! Sunday is Palm Sunday – April 10, 2022, Year A, also called Passion Sunday because of the reading narrating the passion of Christ. Services are held in-person with precautions and online via our YouTube channel. 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.
Holy Week begins on Sunday and there will be worship opportunities every day of the week. All of these services will be held in-person, with precautions, and will be available on our YouTube channel. See the Worship Schedules below and Holy Week Schedule.
See the St. Thomas’s Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for news and events information for this week. Read about this month’s Novel Theology selection. Discussion is open and anyone may attend this Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Also, hear about a St. Thomas’s fundraiser for the Delaware Humane Association happening in May. And, I couldn’t be more excited about this month’s fundraiser for clean water for Ukraine!
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. (Intercessory Prayer booklet)
- Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).
This week’s Palm 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. – Youth Confirmation in the Undercroft.
- Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., Novel Theology meets in-person with precautions and via ZOOM to discuss “The Long Flight Home” by Alan Hlad.
- 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).
Holy Week Worship Schedule:
- Monday, April 11, 2022 at 5 p.m. (booklet)
- Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 5 p.m. (booklet)
- Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at noon
- Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 5 p.m., Evensong (booklet)
- Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 7 p.m. (booklet)
- Good Friday, April 15, 2022 at noon (booklet)
- Good Friday, April 15, 2022 at 7 p.m.
- Holy Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 8 p.m. (booklet)
- Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 8 a.m.
- Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:30 a.m.
Other Parish Events:
- Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. – lectionary bible study in the classroom.
- Monday, April 18, 2022 – Hope Dining Room volunteer outreach
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 worship, events or news, see our website, FaceBook, InstaGram, YouTube, or 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