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Readings for Sunday

Are you interested in learning more about the lectionary readings for this week's worship services? If so, click on the small picture below for all of the readings for the upcoming Sunday along with scripture backgrounds and reflections. The readings are updated weekly, so please check back often.
Preparing for Sunday

Summer Worship

Beginning Sunday, June 6, we will begin our summer worship schedule for June through August. The Sunday morning services of 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. will continue as throughout the year; however, we will suspend the 5:30 p.m. Inclusive Language liturgy with communion during the summer days. We will resume our regular Sunday schedule of three worship services again on September 6.

Weekly Services

Sunday:
8:00 AM  Holy Eucharist I
10:30 AM  Holy Eucharist II
5:30 PM  Inclusive Language Liturgy
 
Wednesday:
12:10 PM  Holy Eucharist I   

Monday through Friday:
5:15 PM  Evening Prayer

Address / Telephone

276 South College Ave.
Newark, Delaware 19711-5235

Phone: 302-368-4644
Fax: 302-366-0272 

Parish Photos

Groovin' in The Grove Photos
 
July 10th
"A String and a Prayer" - A Bluegrass Jam
 
July 17th
"Proximity Effect" - A Night of Rock & Roll
Photos of the Evening
 
July 24th
"David Stein" - Indie/Rock
Photos of the Evening
 

Emmaus House

Donations Needed

Dear Fellow Parishioners,
 
Emmaus House needs paper dinner napkins, paper towels, bath tissue, and facial tissue.Your donations are always greatly appreciated and may be left in or on the container in the Great Hall. Thank you for your generosity! All donations may be placed in the blue container in the Great Hall.  On behalf of the residents and staff, thank you!

Karen Krauss

 

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Coming Events

Inquirers' Class
July 31, 2010 (9:00 am)

Delaware 12-Step Meditation and Recovery
July 31, 2010 (7:30 pm)
Meets in the Undercroft

Holy Eucharist I
August 01, 2010 (8:00 am)

Children's Sunday School
August 01, 2010 (9:30 am)
Godly Play

The Creche (Child Cate to age 3)
August 01, 2010 (9:30 am)
Will be in the Pre-School building behind the church

Adult Christian Education
August 01, 2010 (9:45 am)
Will meet in the Parlor

Toddler Fold
August 01, 2010 (10:15 am)

Holy Eucharist II
August 01, 2010 (10:30 am)

Youth Group - With Lunch
August 01, 2010 (12:00 pm)

Yoga YES
August 02, 2010 (5:30 pm)

Scottish Dancers
August 02, 2010 (7:30 pm)
will meeting in the Great Hall.

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Though the comforts of a church building are important, it is the people coming together within its walls who define the parish. St. Thomas affords all hearts & minds a safe and loving home in which all may explore their relationship with God and this beautiful world.

      … love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your soul…

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Weekly Rumination PDF Print
Written by The Rev. Paul Gennett Jr.   
Thursday, 29 July 2010
THE SEASON OF PENTECOST
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WELL I’LL BE DARNED!

Fr. Paul“WELL I’LL BE DARNED!” This continues to be my response, over some thirty years, when I read the Bible. Whether from the Daily Office readings, or the One Year Bible Online, or in preparation for Tuesday or Wednesday bible study groups, a story, a character, or a word leads me to look into another book of the Bible, and that connects me to another story, which then … Like a delicately woven altar linen, or the seamless performance of a symphony or sports team, the Bible leads and connects us in body, mind, and spirit into his-story, her-story, God’s story to us, for us, now.

And it does not stop there! I move from the story on paper or computer to try and  live the Word in my life now. St. Paul’s life experience that he writes in the Letter to the Romans, “For I do not do what I want … I do not do the good I want … Wretched man that I am” – yep, I have been there and done, or not done, that! St. Peter’s confession, “You are the Christ, the Messiah” – yep, I probably do not do this as much as I could in my life. So, how can I live MY story better? Who wtihin my community of faith can I covenant to walk together with the Word through our life?

The response I still often hear, “I don’t read the Bible because …” and fill in the blank. I don’t have  the time … it doesn’t relate to tbe world today … I think my mother sold it when I went to college … and on. I suspect we would not want to hear our surgeon say, just before we go under anesthesia, “Oh, by the way, I missed the class on this particular surgery in medical school. It just didn’t make sense to me or relate to what I wanted to do. We’ll figure it out as we go along. Sleep well!” A person of faith who does not know OUR story is much like the surgeon -- something not so good will probably happen, or worse yet nothing will happen at all! Until you “walk the walk” it is hard to “talk the talk” of faith.

Consider joining one of the ongoing bible study groups at St. Thomas’s on Tuesday mornings at 7:00 a.m., or Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Read the Daily Office selections each day, and you can find them in the Forward Day by Day, which offers a daily meditation on the readings – the next quarterly edition is available in the church now. Go to www.oneyearbibleonline.com to sign up for this FREE daily offering from the Bible delivered to your computer every morning. Go to St. Thomas’s website and click the “Preparing for Worship” icon, and you can read and pray the lessons
for the upcoming Sunday.

I hold deeply the collect we pray on the next to last Sunday in the Season of Pentecost – “Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ ;” I invite you to pray these words often that they may lead to deepening your faith through YOUR STORY of the Bible.

In peace always, your servant in Christ,
Paul+
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