Join us on Saturday, May 19 at 6:30 pm for our Beyond the Pew – Craft Beer Tasting event. Bring your favorite craft beer with a complementary side dish. Call the parish office for more information: 214-352-0410.
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Join us Tuesday, May 15, as we wrap up our three-week Easter Book Study series Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott. In a world rife with conflict, Lamott invites us to seriously heed the scriptural imperative to “love mercy”. We will discover and discuss what mercy must look like in today’s world. Chicago Tribune Review- “Mercy is radical kindness,” Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It’s the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.” Full of Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality. Order your copy today on Amazon >
Remember the Golden Rule? Do unto others as they would do unto you. Dallas faith and government leaders want North Texans to live out the rule and have united for a #BeGolden campaign to remind people to be nice to each other, and in particular to be kind to refugees who are the most vulnerable. The year-long campaign is spearheaded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, but is an ecumenical venture comprised of leaders from a variety of religions, including Episcopal Diocese of Dallas Bishop George Sumner. The goal is to bring awareness to the plight of refugees in North Texas and to show grace to all people, including those who differ politically, ethnically, racially, and socio-economically. To learn how you can help, or for more information check out begoldenjourney.com.
Easter 3B, April 15, 2018 Acts 3:12-19, Psalm 4 1 John 3: 1-7, Luke 24: 36-48 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Joy A. Daley The year was 2009. An unemployed, plump, simple woman walked out onto the stage of one of those talent shows and explained that she wanted to be a professional singer, a little late to get started at age 48, and she certainly didn’t look the part. The judges were skeptical the audience was laughing at her. There was significant eye rolling among the viewers who though they were witnessing some sort of joke. Then Susan Boyle opened her mouth and began singing with passion, poise and beauty. You could see the judges’ faces open with wonder, humbled as they received her gift of song and the audience was transformed getting to their feet with gratitude and surprise in a way that they never would have…
Organist Benjamin Kolodziej will present an authentic screening of Buster Keaton’s 1928 feature-length silent film, Steamboat Bill, Jr. on Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30 pm in the church. This event is fun and appropriate for all ages. This film, one of the last of the silent era, is a comedic drama involving competing steamboat captains, family disappointments and falling in love, and was largely written and directed by Keaton, a master of comedic timing and deadpan expressions. One original reviewer understatedly characterized the film upon release as “perhaps the best comedy of the year so far,” while the New York Times called it a “sorry affair.” Nonetheless, for decades audiences increasingly have been drawn to this silent movie and it consistently ranks among the favorite and most entertaining silent films in history. To enhance the authentic feel of the evening, Benjamin Kolodziej will perform an original score written for organ…
Spring is here and it is a great time to join us in serving the homeless at THE GATHERING. Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 29. We will be serving with Christ Church from Oak Cliff, and we will leave the north parking lot at 12:15 pm. Please join us and experience this heart warming ministry. The people we serve are always so gracious and grateful. Questions? Contact Lisa Cain.
Easter2B, April 8, 2018 Acts 4: 32-35, Psalm 133 1 John 1: 1-2:2 John 20: 19-31 St. Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Leo Loyola I proposed to Melody on a December afternoon in a San Francisco courtyard. We had just met online six months earlier. But, we never actually met in person until a couple of days earlier. We were literally on our first date as I slipped an engagement ring on Melody’s finger. And, how long did it take for me to decide that she was the one? Would you believe less than a few seconds of first sight? Now I know what you are thinking…the romantics in the room are probably thinking, “How sweet. That Father Leo is such a romantic.” And, then there are the realists who are thinking, “Are you nuts?” For this second group, I hear you. If we met in through a more conventional…
Wednesday in Easter Week, April 4, 2018 Acts 3:1-10, Psalm 105:1-8, Luke 24:13-35 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Leo Loyola Downtown Memphis, April 4, 1968. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. collapsed onto the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel. It was a little after six. A sniper’s bullet had, moments earlier, zinged into the civil right leader’s neck. Ironically the downtown Memphis property was a safe haven for black travelers during the Jim Crow era. At that moment, a lone gunman ran from the bathroom window at a downtown Memphis boarding house and into the evening. Panicked associates pointed towards the direction of the shot. Don’t die, Martin, the world needs you right now! The night before held such promise. King spoke at a rally held at the Mason Temple Church in support of a sanitation workers’ strike. He gave his welcoming audience a poignant vision…
Easter Day, April 1, 2018 Acts 10: 34-43, Psalm 118 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 John 20: 1-18 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Joy A. Daley When we began Holy Week we, unlike the friends of Jesus knew what we are headed for. We hesitated of course not wanting to go there but in spite of our reservations some of us did take the journey encouraged that even in the midst of darkness there was a sliver of a chance, of possibilities to come, of hope for new beginnings that have brought us to this glorious morning. Today the dark intensity of the past week is finally opened up and light shines through. (It may be grey outside but) We are bright with the realization that he lives, he appears and reappears as we will see in the coming weeks, bringing new life all along the way even when like…
The Great Vigil of Easter, Year B, March 31, 2018 Romans 6:3-11, Psalm 114, Mark 16:1-8 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Leo Loyola What comes to mind when we think of Easter? Our sanctuary blanketed with white lilies and other spring flowers? The sight of our pews filled with everyone dressed in their Sunday best? Or perhaps the delightful sight of children outside, hunting for plastic Easter Eggs. Images such as these fill our hearts with nostalgia for Easters Past. But this was not the case for the three women spoken of in our Gospel reading (Mark 16:1-8). For Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome, this first Easter Sunday could be best described in two words: “terror and amazement”. It was Sunday morning. The sun had risen and the memory of Jesus’s death was still fresh in their minds. They were themselves witnesses (as the previous…
