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Weekly E-Newsletter
Week Ending
April 10, 2009 
Dear Parishioner  
St. Thomas the Apostle is an Episcopal Parish in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.  We are called by God to be a holy place where love is found, where all are named and where hearts are freed to change the world.
 
We wish you and your family a Most Blessed Easter!
In This Issue
Easter Vigil Desert
Easter Breakfsat
Easter Message
Upcoming Services
Easter Homily
Easter Sunday Lections
Save the Date
Mother Knows Best
Easter Vigil Desert Reception
Easter Vigil Desert Reception will be held after the great vigil Saturday evening, April 11.
 
Please stop by the kitchen before the service to drop off your favorite decadent goody.  
Gourmet Easter Breaskfast
 
Easter BrunchJoin us for our annual gourmet Easter morning Breakfast created by our own John Boughner.
 
It's a wonderful way to mingle with your fellow parishoners and celebrate the Risen Lord!
 
Just $10 - tickets are available at the Breakfast
Easter Message from Presiding Bishop
Presiding Bisho
The light returns and the days lengthen, even if it remains startlingly dark as we rise these days - daylight savings time is not always a blessing so early in the year! Christians, however, look for light even in the midst of darkness, for we know that darkness will not overcome it. The rising of the Son brings light into lives filled with grief, agony, and despair. Are you searching for the light of new life?
 
Easter recollects us and reorients us toward God's eternal light of truth and peace and love. The resurrection is the ultimate proclamation that nothing can separate us from that light, not despair or destruction or death. We see hints of that resurrection all around us once our eyes have learned to look, and we continue to hope for its fullness, for the blessing of a light so encompassing that there can be no darkness or separation. Lent has been a willingness to experience the darkness of our current separation and tune our yearning for that light. Carry that yearning into Eastertide, and beyond, that we and the world around us may know the blessing of the light of Christ.
 
The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church
Upcoming Services

10 April 2009 Good Friday

7:00 am      Meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

12:00 pm    Stations of the Cross

6:00 pm      Confessions

7:30 pm      Mass of the Pre-Sanctified & Veneration of the Cross

 

11 April 2009 Holy Saturday

7:30 pm      High Mass of the Vigil of the Most Holy Feast   

 

12 April 2009 Easter Day

7:30 am     Morning Prayer

8:00 am     Choral High Mass of the Most Holy Feast

10:00 am   Holy Rosary

10:30 am   Choral High Mass of the Most Holy Feast

4:30 pm     Evening Prayer

 

13 April 2009   Monday

7:30 am      Morning Prayer

8:00 am      Low Mass

6:30 pm      Evening Prayer

 

14 April 2009   Tuesday

7:30 am      Morning Prayer

8:00 am      Low Mass

6:00 pm      Confessions

6:30 pm      Evening Prayer

 

15 April 2009   Wednesday

7:30 am      Morning Prayer

8:00 am      Low Mass

6:00 pm      Confessions

6:30 pm      Evening Prayer

7:00 pm      Low Mass

 

16 April 2009 Thursday

7:30 am      Morning Prayer

8:00 am      Low Mass

6:30 pm      Evening Prayer

 

17 April 2009 Friday

7:30 am      Morning Prayer

8:00 am      Low Mass

6:30 pm      Evening Prayer
We hope to see you soon!
 
Blessings from
 
St. Thomas the Apostle
Easter Day Homily
Episcopal Church Welcomes You

"On that first Easter morning love and loss are embodied in Mary Magdalene and we meet her in the garden. In our darkest hour when Jesus comes to us and we may not even recognize Him, He will speak our name as He did to Mary." 
 
(By Associate Rector Rev. Mark D. Stuart who will be delivering the Homily)
 
Fr Stuart 
Easter Day (Resurrection Day)
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 25:6-9
 
Psalm 118:14-24
 
The First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 15:1-11
 
St. John 20:1-18
Save the Date
A town-hall meeting to review the Church's year-to-date budget and address other issues will be held on Sunday, May 3, 2009 after 10:30am Mass in the Parish Hall. 
Join us!
 
 
The annual ministry fair will be held after mass on Sunday, Mary 17, 2009.  This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about all of the ministries of St. Thomas and participate with those that interest or inspire you.
Join us!
 
Mother Knows Best
Interesting facts about
St. Thomas the Apostle
 
Doubt
The oldest item in the church is the sacristy bell. It is at least 18th century and comes from a church
in Italy that was destroyed in World War II. The bell was given by the priest of the Italian Church to one of the Italian partisans who tried to defend the Church from the Nazis. That man kept it many years and eventually gave it to Brad Hiltscher, a former parishioner who gave it to St. Thomas, so that once more it would have religious use.
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