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News coverage of Ash Wednesday features Episcopalians
Ash Wednesday news coverage in the Fort Worth – Dallas area featured congregations of our diocese. Ellen Bryan of NBC Channel 5 News interviewed the Rev. Karen Calafat of St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth, about the burning of palms to make the ashes for Ash Wednesday and about Ash Wednesday in general. St. Luke’s offered Ashes to Go in front of the church across from Meadowbrook Elementary School and Meadowbrook Middle School. St. Alban’s, worshiping in Theatre…
Godly Play training offered
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, will host a Core Godly Play Training course March 3-5. Anyone interested in learning this Montessori-based method of facilitating children’s learning is invited to register. A Godly Play Foundation participation certificate will be awarded upon completion of Core training. What is Godly Play? The Godly Play Foundation’s website describes the method of teaching in this way: Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play approach helps them to explore their faith…
Invitation to a Holy Lent
As Ash Wednesday approaches, Bishop Scott Mayer invites us into a holy Lent. Lent is the liturgical season that begins with Ash Wednesday and continues for approximately 40 days before culminating in Easter Sunday. On Ash Wednesday, Episcopalians and other Christians join in the ancient ritual of having a cross of ash put on our foreheads as a reminder of our mortality. There are many ways to observe Lent, several of which are mentioned in the Prayer Book liturgy for…
How to make ashes for Ash Wednesday
It is the season of ashes. On Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, Episcopalians join other Christians around the world in participating in an ancient ritual. We have crosses of ash placed on our foreheads as an outward and visible sign of our mortality. Those ashes come from the burning of palms from Palm Sunday. Last year, those graceful green and blessed palms marked our remembrance of the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Now, dried and yellowed, the palms…
Join us for Ash Wednesday and Lent
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for approximately 40 days before culminating in Easter Sunday. Ash Wednesday is on February 10 this year. Lent traditionally has been a time of retreat, reflection, and repentance, a time to clear away the distractions of the world and to focus on our relationship with God and with one another. People often choose to give something up for Lent. But there are other ways of observing Lent. The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer,…
High, Hulsey named assisting bishops
The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer has announced that he, with the support of the Standing Committee, has asked the Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr. and the Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey to serve as assisting bishops in the diocese and they have accepted. An assisting bishop is a bishop appointed by the diocesan bishop to provide short-term assistance with episcopal duties in the diocese. As assisting bishops, High and Hulsey will work at the direction of Mayer,…
Crafton leads retreat on “The Courage to Grow Old”
“Everybody knows that getting old is not for sissies. You have to be tough to last as long as some of us have!” Barbara Crafton, Episcopal priest and author of The Courage to Grow Old, will share her wit and wisdom. Trinity Episcopal Church invites other Episcopalians who have some mileage, as well as those who care about them, to join Crafton for a retreat on Saturday, February 13. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 9 to 9:30 a.m.: Coffee and guest check-in 9:30 a.m.: Welcome and first address, “The…
More resources for Lent
We are delighted to share two additional Lenten resources. Praying in color for a personal devotion Praying in Color offers adults and children a way to mark the day-by-day journey of Lent daily praying & drawing with a calendar template. The author says, “It doesn’t involve making false promises to myself about sitting down for thirty minutes a day and praying/studying/meditating and then feeling guilty when I fail… I think of each mark or stroke of color as a wordless prayer.”…
Resources for Lent
Updated March 1, 2019 Lent begins with Ash Wednesday – this year on March 6, 2019. Several organizations offer materials for personal or group Lenten devotions; here are a few options to guide and enrich your reflection. The Way of Love This Lent, Bishop Scott Mayer has urged us to make use of the Rule of Life our presiding bishop, Michael Curry, has offered to us — the Way of Love. The Episcopal Church Center staff has developed a huge variety…
Bishop Mayer visits St. Alban’s, Theatre Arlington
The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer visited St. Alban’s, Theatre Arlington, on Sunday, January 17, 2016. Nathan Jeremy Bronner was baptised and Mallory Dale Basore was confirmed. This was Bishop Mayer’s first visit to St. Alban’s and there was a reception and a get-aquainted session with the bishop in the lobby of Theatre Arlington after the worship service. For more photos visit the diocesan Flickr Gallery. Dave Burrows of St. Alban’s contributed photos. Watch a video of the bishop’s sermon.…
Lisa Neilson and Lynne Waltman ordained deacons January 15
The Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer ordained Lisa Neilson and Lynne Waltman to the Sacred Order of Deacons on Friday, January 15, 2016, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller. The Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr., preached. Neilson, a cradle Episcopalian, was baptized and confirmed in the Diocese of Colorado. She was active in the Episcopal Campus Ministry at Syracuse University and served in a parish near the campus as a Lay Eucharistic Minister, lector, and clerk of the vestry. She and…
Bishop Scott Mayer on the Primates’ Meeting
The Rt. Rev. J Scott Mayer has issued a statement related to the actions of the recent Anglican Communion Primates’ Meeting: As you probably have heard, a majority of the 38 primates of the Anglican Communion meeting in Canterbury, England, asked that The Episcopal Church, for a period of three years, “no longer represent us on ecumenical and interfaith bodies, should not be appointed or elected to an internal standing committee and that while participating in the internal bodies of the…
“Claim the high calling of love and faith”
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church, has issued a video statement concerning the actions of the Anglican primates at their meeting in Canterbury, England. And so we must claim that high calling; claim the high calling of love and faith; love even for those with whom we disagree, and then continue, and that we will do, and we will do it together. Here is the text of Bishop Curry’s statement: Before I say…
Lisa Neilson and Lynne Waltman to be ordained deacons at St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Bishop Scott Mayer will ordain Lisa Neilson and Lynne Waltman as deacons at 7 pm on Friday, January 15, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, Keller. A reception will follow. Lisa Neilson Lisa Neilson graduated from Syracuse University and spent nine years on active duty as an Army officer, then worked for BNSF Railway for over nineteen years. She met her husband, Bob, while serving in the Army in Korea, and they have been married for 27 years. They have two adult children.…
Support the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
If you plan to make year-end contributions to your congregation and/or to the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, now is the perfect time. Deadlines For tax purposes, the deadline for 2015 gifts is Thursday, December 31. In-person – If you plan to deliver your gift in person, either to the diocesan office or to your church office, you may want to confirm what hours a staff member, clergy person or volunteer will be there to receive your gift. The diocesan office will…
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Christmas 2015 message
“As the words were spoken on that night when Jesus was born, peace, good will to all people, God bless you, God keep you,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry says in his Christmas 2015 message. December 22, 2015 Hello. Our original plan was for me to tape a Christmas message in front of the United Nations building in New York as a way of sending a message that this Jesus of Nazareth whom we follow came…