Hello 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:
- 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 (1/30-3/3/22): 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).
Other parish events:
- Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. – Poets’ Corner
- 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 worship with Holy Eucharist at 7 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m.
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