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Holy Week Schedule

By Upcoming Events

Invite folks you know to join us for any and all of our activities during Holy Week: Palm Sunday – March 25, Rite One Eucharist at 8 am and Rite Two Eucharist at 10 am Tuesday, March 27 – Passover Seder Meal at 7 pm Wednesday, March 28 – Holy Eucharist at 6:30 pm Thursday, March 29 – Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar at 7 pm (Incense) Good Friday – March 30, Services at 12 pm and 7 pm The Great Vigil of Easter – Saturday, March 31 at 8 pm (Incense) and Break the Fast Feast at 10 pm Easter Day – Holy Eucharist Sunday, April 1 at 10 am (No 8 am Service) NOTE: There will be no Bible Study Class during Holy Week. A more in-depth look at Holy Week at St. Thomas the Apostle by The Rev’d Joy A. Daley We have a gift…

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March 19, 2018

Passover Seder Meal

By Upcoming Events

For over 3,000 years the Passover Seder ceremony has been evolving. It has been mixed, in an unusual way, by the customs of many Jewish cultures and by the Law that epitomizes the Jewish experience. The ceremony is both ancient and modern, joyous and solemn, scholarly but easily understood, and is also a Feast that teaches a lesson. Everyone is welcome to participate in this annual meal on Tuesday of Holy week, March 27 at 7pm. See volunteer sign up sheet in the Narthex.

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March 9, 2018

Bishop George R. Sumner will be visiting

By Outreach

St. Thomas is proud to welcome Bishop George R. Sumner on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 18th, at our 10 a.m. Eucharist. Please note that his designation for plate offerings that morning will go to Gateway of Grace. Learn more about the organization > MISSION Assimilating and empowering refugees to become productive members of society through mobilizing the Church and Christ-centered relationships. VISION To see the practical and spiritual needs of refugees in our communities met through compassionate, meaningful, Christ-centered relationships with the local Church. WHAT WE BELIEVE We believe in God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. For our salvation, he came down from heaven and was crucified, died, and rose on the third day. He ascended into heaven and will come back to judge the living and the dead. We believe that the Church is…

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March 9, 2018

Lenten Study for St Thomas Book Club

By Christian Formation

Join us for our three-week Lenten Study on Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint. If you are: • dealing with serious burnout with church; • angry about the finger-wagging and divisiveness of so-called Christians; and/or • desperately seeking for a taste of God’s truth, hope and grace in the brokenness of this world. We began March 6 seeking to strip this faith down to its bare bones as we rediscover a God who loves the righteous as much as God loves the alcoholics, depressives, misfits, and cynics. The next meeting is on Tuesday, March 20th, at 10 am in the south room. Order Pastrix on Amazon >

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March 9, 2018

Lent 1B Sermon

By Rector's Corner, Sermons

Lent IB, February 18, 2018 Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25, 1 Peter 3:18-22, Mark 1: 9-15 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Joy A. Daley I wonder if you were like me as you sat before the television this week, deciding what channel to turn to, the one with Olympic events or the one that gave you all the details about this week’s shooting. Both experiences are a part of our lives The dichotomy of what we see is the world we live in. The story of lost children turning into violent adults who out of rage and hopelessness take the lives of others, the horrible grief of suffering families and slaughtered children. And then with the touch of a button I change the channel and I am greeted by smiling faces the story of the ice dancing couple who had so many problems now with joy on their faces as…

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February 18, 2018

Advent 1B – Love Means You Never Have to Say You’re Sorry?

By Rector's Corner, Sermons

Advent 1B, December 3, 2017 Isaiah 64:1-9, Psalm 80 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13: 24-37 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Joy A. Daley “Love Means You Never Have to Say You’re Sorry?” On the Saturday after Thanksgiving I was taking a bike ride in my neighborhood trying to work off some of the pie I had eaten on Thursday. I wasn’t riding very fast. All of a sudden in the distance but not too far ahead I heard one of those old fashioned ice cream trucks playing a song. Now usually they play some peppy kid’s song like Pop goes the Weasel But the song that was playing that day was familiar but I couldn’t place it . What was it? Then as I was peddling along it came to me. It was the theme from the movie, Love Story. It seemed strange to hear a song from a…

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December 7, 2017

Sermon Proper 28A

By Rector's Corner, Sermons

Proper 28A, November 19, 2017 Judges 4: 1-7, Psalm 123 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11 Matthew 25: 14-30 St Thomas the Apostle The Rev’d Joy A. Daley There are many ways that members of the church go about spreading the love of God rather than holding on to it for ourselves. This morning I’d like to tell you about how one group has done this in a particular area over the past couple of years. Several years ago someone made a gift to the church in the amount of $42,000 and it was designated for outreach. That’s a big chunk of money that you don’t want to be careless about. So there’s a group in our parish known as the outreach committee and what they do is to discern carefully about such things. First   they take the risk of stepping up to be on the committee, using their knowledge and wisdom…

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December 6, 2017

“Lord, make us instruments of your peace.”

By Outreach, Rector's Corner

There are consistent reminders of the brokenness of our world and the need for the grace and peace of Christ to heal. As we pray for those hurt by violence of any kind may we also pray that we may be instruments of peace. ~ Joy † A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis (insert p. 833 BCP) Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that…

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June 16, 2017

Thoughts on Manchester – Rev’d Joy Daley

By Rector's Corner

Thoughts on Manchester –Joy Daley It has been said that after people die that survivors must adjust to a “new normal” in which we acknowledge that the world has changed and we learn to live with loss. In some ways I believe that this is wisdom that we need to take to heart. I do have a fear, however, that we can come to accept the violence that erupts repeatedly in unexpected places as the “new normal.” This can lead us to minimize what happens in our world and the degree of loss that so many of our brothers and sisters suffer. In our humanity it becomes difficult to take in one more devastating event. Compassion fatigue may lead to a desire to just turn away. Our desires are not all of who we are though, so we take another look and realize that we are all in this together….

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May 25, 2017