25 Feb 2022

Ash Wednesday and Lent 2022 worship schedule

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In addition to our regularly scheduled Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., and Wednesday noon worship services, here are Lenten opportunities.

  • Dessert PARTY on Shrove Tuesday, LIVE on Zoom at 7 p.m.  You will receive an email invitation the day of.  In the meantime, check out the Facebook event page to get excited!
  • Draw nearer to Jesus during this Lenten season with a daily devotional by Fr Howie: Kenotikon.  Each morning in Lent, you can expect an email at 6 a.m. with a daily reflection. These are designed to be done one entry each day, however we all know that when we are building our relationship with God, there is no wrong way.
  • Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022: three services of Holy Eucharist and imposition of ashes at 7 a.m., (spoken), noon (spoken), and 7 p.m. with music.
  • Beginning March 6, 2022, Sundays at 5:00 p.m. during Lent – Sunday evening worship service with Holy Eucharist, in-person only with precautions.
    • A service of penitence and reconciliation. 
    • A service of readings and music with projected images (“Son et Lumiere”). 
    • A contemplative service with candles and the music of Taize. 
    • A service of prayer with some of the interactive stations of the Cross. 
    • A guided meditation through the Durufle Requiem. 

24 Feb 2022

Worship and weekly news – February 24, 2022

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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:

Other Parish Events:

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

19 Feb 2022

Shrove Tuesday dessert party on March 1, 2022

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Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday is right around the corner!  While we cannot get together for our traditional pancake dinner and games, we cannot let this celebration pass by without some fellowship.  So, this year, we will be gathering via Zoom for a DESSERT PARTY on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at 7 p.m. Mark your calendar!

Part of the fun of this celebration is the preparation; let’s get excited!!! Here is a link to its Facebook event.  Please let us know you will be joining in the fun, and feel free to share this invitation with anyone who could use some community.

I found a copy of “The Feast is Ready”, the 5th edition of the St. Thomas’s Parish recipe book and it includes recipes from our congregation dating back to the 1920s.  I’ll be listing some of these recipes on the Facebook event page.  Please share some of your own!  What will you be preparing for our gathering?  Let me know if you are interested in providing a video tutorial of your recipe: do we have any Jeff Smiths or Gina Neelys out there?

And, finally, if you are just not into making a dessert – WE STILL WANT TO SEE YOU!!  Join us with a glass of water, and we will be glad to see your smiling face.  And, if you really enjoy preparing sweets and would like to share, post it in the Facebook event, and I’ll bet that someone out there would be ecstatic to receive your gift.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this FUN event.  I will be emailing out the Zoom link on the day of the party.  Friends are WELCOME: please let me know if there are additional email addresses to add to the invitation, or you are free to forward the link to your contacts.  HOORAY FOR FELLOWSHIP!

17 Feb 2022

Hope Dining Room volunteers for February 21, 2022

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Dear Families of St. Thomas’s and St. Nicholas,

Monday, February 21, 2022 is our opportunity to serve at Hope Dining Room. We will be making 60 meals for anyone who is hungry.  We begin cooking at 10 a.m. at Kingswood Methodist Church on Marrows Road in Brookside Park. We are finished cleaning up by noon and we always have fun.

Now is your opportunity to have fun in February! Please use the following Sign Up Genius for items we need. 
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4daca72aaaff2-hope19

You may bring your items to St. Thomas’s, on Tuesday through Thursday from 9 to noon. Or, bring them on Sunday, when you come to church. If you are stuck at home and have items to donate, email or call me and I will pick them up at your house.

Many Blessings to ALL of you,
Madeline Johnson    mad1240@comcast.net

17 Feb 2022

Worship and news – February 17, 2022

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Seventh Sunday after EpiphanyHello faith family! Sunday is the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany – February 20, 2022, Year A. 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.

See the St. Thomas’s Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for news and events information for this week. You will see a reminder about our Sunday morning adult education series – From a boatful, to billions: An absurdly short history of Christianity, an invitation to Poet’s Corner, and a bit about the upcoming 2 Saints Readers book for discussion.  If you need any assistance connecting with the Sunday adult ed class or 2 Saints Readers, please do not hesitate to reach out to the office.

An email invitation for the upcoming Dessert PARTY on Shrove Tuesday was emailed this week.  Have you marked your calendar? March 1, 2022, at 7 p.m. via Zoom.  You will receive an email invitation the day of.  For more info, visit the Facebook event page, or contact the office.

The day after the Dessert PARTY on Shrove Tuesday is Ash Wednesday. There will be three services with Holy Eucharist: 7 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m. We will enjoy music at the 7 p.m. service and the others will be spoken. Then, during the season of Lent, there will be an additional service on Sundays at 5 p.m. More details will be coming next week via email, as well as, compiled in the Carpenter’s Helper and posted on our web site.

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. 
    • The following Wednesday, March 2, 2022, is Ash Wednesday with services at 7 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m.
  • Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. Here is the accompanying booklet.

Sunday Schedule:

Other parish events:

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. See our Giving information.

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.

I look forward to worshiping together on Sunday!

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

16 Feb 2022

Blue Hen Bounty food pantry welcomes donations

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Blue Hen BountyBlue Hen Bounty (BHB) food pantry appreciate all of you for helping fill our pantry! Here is a list of items that BHB is always accepting. feel free to drop these items off during our weekly hours. We thank you in advance.

Blue Hen Bounty, a food pantry that provides supplemental nutrition to  University of Delaware students who are food insecure and cannot provide ample nutrition for themselves. Food insecure students are invited to come to the Blue Hen Bounty food closet by going to the Parish Office at St. Thomas’s Parish, 276 S. College Ave., Newark, Delaware 19711.

16 Feb 2022

2 Saints Readers upcoming March 2022 series

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2 Saints Readers, our St. Nicholas and St. Thomas’s joint reading group, invite you to join in the discussion.

What would it be like to live the second half of your life with real enthusiasm?

Soul Stages is written for people who want affirmation that the second half of life presents different challenges and opportunities than the first but is no less fulfilling. Readers will be able to see transitions as opportunities for spiritual and emotional growth, rather than as problems to be solved.

CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERLIN MOORE has more than forty years’ experience ministering in The Episcopal Church. A nationally recognized conference leader, he is the author of What I REALLY Want to Do, Opening the Clergy Parachute, and Solitude: A Neglected Path to God. He has written for many denominational, Christian, and secular publications, and won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Religious Broadcasting.

Chris is fascinated by what makes us who we are. Why are we drawn to certain paths and not others? What makes us choose the work we do? Why are certain experiences life-giving for us? Where do we find our “bliss”? How can we find joy, purpose and passion in the second half of life? These questions guide his life and his writing.

Chris and his wife live near Philadelphia.

Tuesdays at 10 a.m. March 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2022 via Zoom. Contact the office for your invitation.

16 Feb 2022

Poets’ Corner this Saturday, February 19, 2022

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Poets' CornerALL are Welcome to enjoy the poetry of Amish Trivedi this Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 4:30 p.m.

Amish is the author of three books of poetry, most recently “FuturePanic” which was out in November of 2021. He has an MFA from Brown, a PhD from Illinois State, and is currently a post doctoral researcher in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. He is in progress on his first scholarly book “A Wing in a Crumbling Mansion”, on the field of poetry’s relationship to academia.

Masks are required. Free will offerings appreciated.

Co-sponsored by St. Thomas’s Parish and the University of Delaware English Department.

11 Feb 2022

Worship services for week of February 13, 2022

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Sixth Sunday after EpiphanyHello faith family! Sunday is the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – February 13, 2022, Year A. 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.

Worship this week:

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. See our Giving information.

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.

I look forward to worshiping together on Sunday!

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644

11 Feb 2022

Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for February 13, 2022

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Good morning faith family. See St. Thomas’s Carpenter’s Helper newsletter for news and events information for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – February 13, 2022, Year A. You will also see a reminder about our Sunday morning adult education series – From a boatful, to billions: An absurdly short history of Christianity, a reminder and invitation to Novel Theology this Sunday, and information about a cool contest open to our high school students. If you need any assistance connecting with the Sunday adult education class or Novel Theology, please do not hesitate to reach out to the office.

Some of our worship events are as follows. We encourage you to worship in whatever way is comfortable for you: in-person or on YouTube.  Thank you to everyone involved in making these decisions; these are heavy questions and the decisions are made prayerfully and carefully.

Other events follow:

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. See our Giving information.

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.

Kind Regards,
Cana Hartman, Parish Administrator
StThomassOffice@googlegroups.com or (302) 368-4644