Hello faith family! Sunday is the First Sunday in Lent – March 6, 2022, Year A. Services are held in-person with precautions and online via our YouTube channel. See the Worship Schedule below. This is the first week of the additional 5 p.m. Sunday service, which this week will be a service of penance and reconciliation. This service is in-person only. 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 find a prayer for peace, an invitation to a new ministry, and some thought-provoking poetry musings from our sexon, Kenneth. Kenneth’s choice of poem for the Helper is so appropriate for this week, as we will be enjoying the Gospel reading in both Spanish and English, and this poet is published in both languages. He also grabbed a book of post-Soviet Ukrainian poetry from the library, “From Three Worlds: New Writing from Ukraine“. It is not only a collection of some of Ukraine’s most talented writers, but is also a medium for Ukrainian literature to rewrite the Soviet palimpsest that has systematically repressed and excluded Ukrainian voices.
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. (booklet)
- Thursday at 7 p.m. – Compline Evening Prayer, live via Zoom. (booklet).
- Beginning March 6, 2022, Sundays at 5:00 p.m. during Lent – Lenten service with Holy Eucharist, in-person with precautions.
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. – Adult Education in the parlor and live via Zoom: From a boatful, to billions: An absurdly short history of Christianity. (1/30-3/13/22)
- 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).
- Sundays at 5:00 p.m. during Lent – Lenten service with Holy Eucharist
Other Parish Events:
- 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.
- Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., Novel Theology will meet to discuss “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant. ALL are Welcome to join in the discussion.
- Sunday, March 27, 2022 – Annual Parish Meeting in the Great Hall following the 10:30 a.m. worship service.
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