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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.

Saint Margaret (c. 1045 - 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Aetheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III, King of Scots, becoming his Queen consort. 

Margaret's biographer Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews, credits her with having a civilizing influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him stories from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to make the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland conform to those of Rome. She was considered an exemplar of the "just ruler", and influenced her husband and children, especially her youngest son, later David I, also to be just and holy rulers. She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate, and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ. She rose at midnight every night to attend church services. She invited the Benedictine order to establish a monastery at Dunfermline in Fife and established ferries at Queensferry and North Berwick to assist pilgrims journeying from south of the Forth Estuary to St. Andrews in Fife. A cave on the banks of the Tower Burn in Dunfermline was used by her as a place of devotion and prayer. St Margaret's Cave, now covered beneath a municipal car park, is open to the public.

According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonised by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.

Adapted from www.wikipedia.org

Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty since World War I.  Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the official end of World War I on that date in 1918; hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice ("at the 11th hour" refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11:00 a.m.)

PRELUDE  

Andante tranquilo

Felix Mendelssohn

Prelude in A 

Eugene Thayer

POSTLUDE

Paraphrase on Te Deum

Marcel Dupré

Marcel Dupré is of the great lineage of French organists having studied organ with Alexandre Guilmantand Louis Vierne, and fugue and composition with Charles-Marie Widor who he succeeded as organist at Saint Sulpice. He was known as a great teacher and a proficient writer with over 65 Opuses. In many ways Dupré may be viewed as a 'Paganini' of the organ - being a virtuoso of the highest order. The Paraphrase on the hymn tune TE DEUM [Thee, O God, we praise] is an adventure in short variations, opulent sound and challenging technique.

AIDS/USC Feeding

Choir Boutique / Sing-along

December 17 @ 10:30am

Semi-Annual Cleaning of Church (lunch provided)

December 18 @ 12:00pm

Our Lady of Walsingham Coffee Hour

December 18 @ 4:30pm

Advent Lessons & Carols