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Good Shepherd, Granbury seeking music director
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Granbury is seeking a part time Director of Music and Choir Master. There are many ways the position can be structured; duties will include selecting music, organizing, rehearsing and directing a new choir, and administrating several special music occasions throughout the year. Requirements include knowledge of and skill with mainline Protestant Christian hymnody, piano, choral conducting and church ethos. A degree in sacred music, familiarity with Episcopal churches and knowledge of computers…
Christmas Concert set for Dec. 13 at All Saints’
All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Fort Worth offers a Concert of Christmas Music on Sunday, December 13 from The program will feature harpist Yumiko Endo Schlaffer, Dallas Symphony violinist Andrew Schast, and All Saints’ organist and choirmaster Frederick Grimes playing with the All Saints’ Choir and a chamber orchestra. Admission is free with no tickets or reservations required, and a reception for everyone will follow the concert. For more information, call 817-732-1424 or visit www.asecfw.org.
Trinity to celebrate with Lutheran neighbors for Thanksgiving
Trinity Episcopal Church will join with five neighboring Lutheran churches for a Thanksgiving Eve Service this year. Trinity will join with five area Lutheran churches: Faith, Grace, St. Matthew’s, San Gabriel and Trinity Lutheran. Trinity will host the service, scheduled for Wednesday, November 25 at 7:00 pm. After the service, attendees will gather in the Parish Hall at Trinity for a pie potluck. If you would like to bring a pie, Trinity has a sign-up sheet. All are welcome!
Live webcasts of the presiding bishop’s vigil celebration and installation
The Installation of the Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry as the 27th presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church will be Sunday, November 1, 2015, with a vigil service on Saturday, October 31. Curry was elected and confirmed at the 78th General Convention on June 27 in Salt Lake City. According to the Canons of The Episcopal Church, he assumes this role on November 1. Saturday, October 31 All are invited to join a Vigil Celebration and Eucharist, sponsored by the Union…
Pre-school and kindergarten students bring stuffed animals for blessing
Several congregations celebrated the Feast of St. Francis by blessing animals of all kinds in the last couple of weeks. Pre-school and kindergarten students at St. Martin’s Episcopal School in Keller also brought their stuffed animals for a blessing. The students brought their animals to chapel, and the Rev. Scot McComas and school chaplain Corrie Cabes led them in giving thanks for the comfort the animals provide and then blessed each one. Some of the kindergartners showed and talked about their…
Bishop Mayer visits St. Luke’s, Stephenville
Bishop Scott Mayer visited St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Stephenville, on Sunday, October 4, 2015, The congregation is still celebrating the return of their red front doors, recently repaired and repainted after an attack by a vandal. Bishop Mayer celebrated and preached and confirmed Alice Arrington Newsome, Randi Barnes, MacKenze Brister, Reegan Brister, and Cade Norman. There was a luncheon afterward in the parish hall. Watch a video of the bishop’s sermon, “A story of separation and unity.” See more photos…
Suzi Robertson to be installed as Priest-in-Charge, Good Shepherd, Granbury
God willing, the Rt. Rev. J. Scott Mayer will install the Rev. Suzi Robertson as the priest in charge of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Granbury, Texas at 7 p.m. on October 6, 2015. Good Shepherd invites all to gather in faith and hope to celebrate the new mutual ministry of the people of their congregation and their new priest-in-charge. A reception will follow the service. This celebration is on the feast day of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. Episcopal clergy are invited to vest in cassock, surplice and red stole, and other clergy are…
Solemn Evensong October 4, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Fort Worth
Come to All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, to experience Solemn Evensong on Sunday, October 4 at 6:00 p.m. with the All Saints’ Choir, directed by Organist and Choirmaster Frederick Grimes. Music will include Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B minor by T. Tertius Noble and the motet, Save us O Lord by Thomas Matthews. Admission is free. All Saints’ Episcopal Church is located at 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth.
Fort Worth AME churches invite community to march and pray in solidarity
In memory of the nine people killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, two African Methodist Episcopal churches in the Fort Worth area have organized a solidarity march and memorial prayer service the evening of Thursday, June 25, 2015. Our bishops, the Rayford High and Scott Mayer, encourage you to act and in the wake of this tragedy and to respond to our neighbors’ invitation to stand together in support. Details…
Prayer for Prisons and Correctional Institutions
Lord Jesus, for our sake you were condemned as a criminal: Visit our jails and prisons with your pity and judgment. Remember all prisoners, and bring the guilty to repentance and amendment of life according to your will, and give them hope for their future. When any are held unjustly, bring them release; forgive us, and teach us to improve our justice. Remember those who work in these institutions; keep them humane and compassionate; and save them from becoming brutal or callous. And since what we do for…
Prayer for the Victims of Addiction
O blessed Lord, you ministered to all who came to you: Look with compassion upon all who through addiction have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of your unfailing mercy; remove from them the fears that beset them; strengthen them in the work of their recovery; and to those who care for them, give patient understanding and persevering love. Amen.
Prayer for One Who Has Died in Military or Public Safety Service
God the King of Glory, in whose hands are the living and the dead: We give you thanks for [N. and] all those who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant them your mercy and the light of your presence; and give us a sense of your will and purpose, that we may understand that the work you have begun in them will be perfected through Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, in whom all…
Prayer for those affected by the Nepal earthquake
Lord, who is our shepherd, We pray for the people of Nepal in this time of want. Guide those who grieve to still waters; restore their soul. Lead those who are searching to the right places. Comfort those who are trapped in the darkest valley of fear. May generosity and compassion overflow in response so that goodness and mercy may follow all who will live in the shadow of this earthquake. May they dwell in secure houses and know healing…
Bishop High visits St. Stephen’s, Hurst
The Rt. Rev. Rayford B.HIgh, Jr., visited St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hurst, on Sunday, April 12, 2015. Dennis Strach, Kathleen Strach and Barbara Rough reaffirmed their baptismal vows. After the Eucharist, the worship space was transformed into a parish hall. The congregation honored the Rev. Slaven Manning and his wife Linda with a barbecue lunch and reception. Bishop High presented Manning with a plaque from the parish expressing their thanks for the Manning’s ministry among them. The recently retired priest-in-charge,…
Church at home on a snowy Second Sunday of Lent
As the sun rises on this snowy morning of the Second Sunday of Lent, many of us in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth are homebound due to the ice and snow. But because our common prayers are what bind us together as Episcopalians, we can easily be together in Christ even when we are physically far apart. Bishop Rayford B. High, Jr., Canon Janet Waggoner, and the diocesan staff invite you to join us in Morning Prayer in your homes and…
Thaw out with beautiful music at All Saints’, Fort Worth
After dreary days of ice and snow, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, is offering a chance to venture out and hear some beautiful music. Solemn Evensong will be at 6 pm Sunday, March 1, 2015, with the All Saints’ Choir. Music will include Plainsong Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, as well as Psalm 8 sung by the All Saints’ Choir and the congregation.The choir will sing “How lovely is thy dwelling-place” from the Requiem of Johannes Brahms, and Ave verum…