A quiet midweek liturgy which often includes the Commemoration of Saints’ Days as well as Prayers for Healing (Laying on of hands and anointing with oil).
The 10:30 AM Eucharist is High Mass, with choir, chant, hymns, incense and modern language. On major feasts and other special days we enhance our worship with increased ceremonial, festal vestments and special music such as brass and strings.
In the best spirit of the Catholic tradition, our worship strives to be dignified and yet relaxed while offering the variety and the majesty afforded by the Book of Common Prayer.
The 8:00 AM Eucharist is Rite I, a Low Mass, in traditional language with no sung music or incense.
In the best spirit of the Catholic tradition, our worship strives to be dignified and yet relaxed while offering the variety and majesty afforded by the Book of Common Prayer.
Choir prepares to celebrate our beautiful liturgy through music on Thursday evenings this Winter beginning January. Contact the church office or a choir member on Sunday if you are interested in more information to join the choir. This a great opportunity to worship in fellowship with others.
A quiet midweek liturgy which often includes the Commemoration of Saints’ Days as well as Prayers for Healing (Laying on of hands and anointing with oil).
St. Paul’s Book Club is an informal gathering of people who enjoy reading fiction—parishioners, friends, anyone who wishes to read, attend, and join the discussion of issues raised in the novels. Above all we value well-written works. Each year’s reading list is comprised of recent novels along with an occasional twentieth-century classic. Book selections each year include texts that make us travel in time and in space.
When we meet, our purpose is to reflect on the world and the characters we have come to know, not to offer “literary criticism” or a “book review.”
Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm.
For further information, contact Rilda Baker: email (drrildabaker@gmail.com).
The 10:30 AM Eucharist is High Mass, with choir, chant, hymns, incense and modern language. On major feasts and other special days we enhance our worship with increased ceremonial, festal vestments and special music such as brass and strings.
In the best spirit of the Catholic tradition, our worship strives to be dignified and yet relaxed while offering the variety and the majesty afforded by the Book of Common Prayer.
The 8:00 AM Eucharist is Rite I, a Low Mass, in traditional language with no sung music or incense.
In the best spirit of the Catholic tradition, our worship strives to be dignified and yet relaxed while offering the variety and majesty afforded by the Book of Common Prayer.
Every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month following the 1st Tuesday of the month, the Our Lord's Table Food Ministry serves as a San Antonio Food Bank partner food pantry for 150+ neighborhood families in great need.
Parishioners and community volunteers are encouraged to join us any Distribution Saturday, please arrive about thirty minutes prior to doors opening (around 8:30am). There are several ways to help from assisting with checking families in, helping with loading groceries into family boxes or helping them load their vehicles, or delivering packaged boxes for our home-bound clients. We are Hunger Fighting Partners!
Pray the Anglican Rosary: What Does It Mean?
by David Allen White
A small but dedicated group of your fellow parishioners meets by the Lady Shrine in the back of the church at 9:30 AM on the first Saturday of the month to pray the Rosary. What is that about?
The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for them. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five Joyful Mysteries, five Luminous Mysteries, five Sorrowful Mysteries, and five Glorious Mysteries.
The word Rosary comes from a Latin word meaning Crown of roses or Garland of roses. The name refers to the string of beads that the suppliant uses to count the prayers (the beads were originally made from crushed rose petals) and to the devotion that is recited. The devotion was standardized in the 16th century, though it is much older, and is probably most associated with Roman Catholicism because of the references to Mary’s part in the history of our salvation, but properly understood, it is used also by many Catholic-minded Anglicans.
The prayers of the Rosary often involve the use of Picture texts similar to Lectio Divina, which assist meditation. Those of us who use this devotion are happy to welcome newcomers and to offer assistance and instruction in the praying of the Rosary.
Choir prepares to celebrate our beautiful liturgy through music on Thursday evenings this Winter beginning January. Contact the church office or a choir member on Sunday if you are interested in more information to join the choir. This a great opportunity to worship in fellowship with others.
The Meditation Group meets on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. We make space and time with and for each other, join in focused discussion around our current reading selection, and meditate during our hour together.
A quiet midweek liturgy which often includes the Commemoration of Saints’ Days as well as Prayers for Healing (Laying on of hands and anointing with oil).
Join us weekly in the Library at 10:45am for our dive deeper into the readings for the upcoming Sunday.
Followed Midday Midweek Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Healing/Unction which you are invited to join as well.
St. Paul’s Book Club is an informal gathering of people who enjoy reading fiction—parishioners, friends, anyone who wishes to read, attend, and join the discussion of issues raised in the novels. Above all we value well-written works. Each year’s reading list is comprised of recent novels along with an occasional twentieth-century classic. Book selections each year include texts that make us travel in time and in space.
When we meet, our purpose is to reflect on the world and the characters we have come to know, not to offer “literary criticism” or a “book review.”
Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm.
For further information, contact Rilda Baker: email (drrildabaker@gmail.com).
Godly Play is Montessori based religious education. Godly Play focuses on Story and Creative Play to guide children in their understanding of Christian tradition and to help children express in Christian language their own experience of God's presence.
Godly Play is offered on Sunday during the Formation Hour of 9:15 am to 10:15 am. Children aged four through eight meet meet downstairs in the Godly Play space across from Fr. Brad's office, while those aged nine through twelve upstairs in the Tree House.
For more information, contact Susan Keyes at susanbkeyes@gmail.com.
Godly Play is Montessori based religious education. Godly Play focuses on Story and Creative Play to guide children in their understanding of Christian tradition and to help children express in Christian language their own experience of God's presence.
Godly Play is offered on Sunday during the Formation Hour of 9:15 am to 10:15 am. Children aged four through eight meet meet downstairs in the Godly Play space across from Fr. Brad's office, while those aged nine through twelve upstairs in the Tree House.
For more information, contact Susan Keyes at susanbkeyes@gmail.com.
Casting On--several St. Paul's parishioners are forming a knitting and crochet group. We have a LOT of yarn to work with as well as needles and could pair beginners with more experienced knitters and crocheters. Knitting is good for you! Repetitive gestures in knitting and crocheting can bring on a calm state, like with yoga or meditation. Saying a little prayer to comfort the future recipient of a blanket knits love into our work (some churches have a "prayer shawl" ministry). Our purpose is to make items that could be donated to several different causes: baby blankets for preemies and/or babies baptized at St. Paul's, shawls for nursing homes or the like, and shawls or throws for LGBT young runaways, and new projects as needed. Let's meet on the first Saturday of the month at 10 am. Knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome! Contact Chris Finley at 210-485-9077 or dcfinley53@yahoo.com if you are interested in joining as some months the time and gathering spot change.
Pray the Anglican Rosary: What Does It Mean?
by David Allen White
A small but dedicated group of your fellow parishioners meets by the Lady Shrine in the back of the church at 9:30 AM on the first Saturday of the month to pray the Rosary. What is that about?
The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for them. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five Joyful Mysteries, five Luminous Mysteries, five Sorrowful Mysteries, and five Glorious Mysteries.
The word Rosary comes from a Latin word meaning Crown of roses or Garland of roses. The name refers to the string of beads that the suppliant uses to count the prayers (the beads were originally made from crushed rose petals) and to the devotion that is recited. The devotion was standardized in the 16th century, though it is much older, and is probably most associated with Roman Catholicism because of the references to Mary’s part in the history of our salvation, but properly understood, it is used also by many Catholic-minded Anglicans.
The prayers of the Rosary often involve the use of Picture texts similar to Lectio Divina, which assist meditation. Those of us who use this devotion are happy to welcome newcomers and to offer assistance and instruction in the praying of the Rosary.
Choir prepares to celebrate our beautiful liturgy through music on Thursday evenings this Winter beginning January. Contact the church office or a choir member on Sunday if you are interested in more information to join the choir. This a great opportunity to worship in fellowship with others.
The Meditation Group meets on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. We make space and time with and for each other, join in focused discussion around our current reading selection, and meditate during our hour together.
A quiet midweek liturgy which often includes the Commemoration of Saints’ Days as well as Prayers for Healing (Laying on of hands and anointing with oil).
Join us weekly in the Library at 10:45am for our dive deeper into the readings for the upcoming Sunday.
Followed Midday Midweek Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Healing/Unction which you are invited to join as well.
Choir prepares to celebrate our beautiful liturgy through music on Thursday evenings this Winter beginning January. Contact the church office or a choir member on Sunday if you are interested in more information to join the choir. This a great opportunity to worship in fellowship with others.
A quiet midweek liturgy which often includes the Commemoration of Saints’ Days as well as Prayers for Healing (Laying on of hands and anointing with oil).
Join us weekly in the Library at 10:45am for our dive deeper into the readings for the upcoming Sunday.
Followed Midday Midweek Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Healing/Unction which you are invited to join as well.
Godly Play is Montessori based religious education. Godly Play focuses on Story and Creative Play to guide children in their understanding of Christian tradition and to help children express in Christian language their own experience of God's presence.
Godly Play is offered on Sunday during the Formation Hour of 9:15 am to 10:15 am. Children aged four through eight meet meet downstairs in the Godly Play space across from Fr. Brad's office, while those aged nine through twelve upstairs in the Tree House.
For more information, contact Susan Keyes at susanbkeyes@gmail.com.
Choir prepares to celebrate our beautiful liturgy through music on Thursday evenings this Winter beginning January. Contact the church office or a choir member on Sunday if you are interested in more information to join the choir. This a great opportunity to worship in fellowship with others.
The Meditation Group meets on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. We make space and time with and for each other, join in focused discussion around our current reading selection, and meditate during our hour together.
