Our new Pew Chairs and Kneelers arrived Tuesday morning from Sauder Manufacturing in Michigan. A team of volunteers, staff, and school students unloaded the chairs and kneelers from the truck, carried them into the church, placed them in rows and put the kneelers on. The chairs are built of solid birch wood, stained to blend…
Vacation Bible School 2018 is July 17-20! This summer’s Vacation Bible School will be July 17-20 from 9:15 to noon. Our topic will be The Big God Story! Adult Bible Study will be offered from 11:00am to noon with free babysitting for infants under two. Click here to register for VBS 2018! Vacation Bible…
by Giles Brightwell This coming Sunday is The Second Sunday after Easter. The hymns reflect the themes included in the readings: discipleship and God and Jesus as shepherd of the sheep. The first hymn, ‘The Lord’s my shepherd’ to the tune CRIMOND, is a well-known metrical version of Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd)…
CHRIST our Passover is sacrificed for us: * therefore let us keep the feast, Not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; * but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 7. CHRIST being raised from the dead dieth no more; * death hath no more dominion…
You’re Invited to Saint Thomas’ Boots and Bling Western Shindig! Saturday, April 7, 6 pm until 11 pm Tickets $60 each | Cash Bar | Sponsorships available Benefits CCSC: Christian Community Services Center Fajita Dinner Ride A Mechanical Bull Sample Craft Beers Wine Pull Music & Dancing Photo Booth Silent Auction Sponsorships Available! Click here…
As you will all know, we have now come to the end of the ‘gesimas, that pre-Lenten season that includes Sundays with what, to modern ears, sound like wonderfully exotic names from a dim and distant past: Septuagesima (70 or so days before Easter), Sexagesima (60 or so days before Easter) and Quinquagesima (50 days…
by Giles Brightwell. My mentor, colleague and friend, Dr James Lancelot, has just retired after 32 years’ service as Canon Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral in the northeast of England. James’s anniversary also coincides with my own, having completed my 32nd Christmas playing the organ in church. Early Days James started…
Here’s the latest on Saint Thomas’ on-going restoration and recovery from the damage done by Hurricane Harvey. As you know, we’ve engaged the architectural firm of Merriman Holt Powell (MHP) to assist us in developing a master plan for the entire campus for both church and school. In a separate, but related, project, they are…
I was not raised going to church on Sundays but I did go to Advent Episcopal Day School as a child and pre-teen. There, I was exposed to the Episcopal liturgy that would imprint me for the rest of my life. After time in the wilderness, in 2003, I came back to that liturgy and…
Supporting the Houston Ebony Opera Guild and Flood Relief at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church – Meyerland Buy 2 or more Adult or Senior Tickets in Advance and Save! Use Coupon Code HEOG-2A for Adult Tickets and HEOG-2S for Senior Tickets! Concert will be held at Benitez Chapel at Episcopal High School (directions below) Offer expires…