Welcome, Guests! Thank you for joining us! Please fill out the

visitor card in your pew and drop it in the collection plate during

the Offertory or give it to one of the ministers as you leave.

Flowers: St. Thomas’ Orchids.

Fellowship: Hospitality Committee.

Cover: From the St. Thomas’ archives, Blessing of the Animals 2015.

Sunday, October 6: 2 pm Warm Valley Lodge service.

Tuesday, October 8: 10 am Bible Talk at Warm Valley Lodge.

Thursday, October 10: Ram Packs.

11 am Prayers for Tony Corline at the cemetery. It will be a short, simple service. Please tell anyone that you think would like to come.

2 pm Vestry meeting in the Coffee Room. Congregation members are always welcome and encouraged to attend.

3:30-4:30 pm Winter Market at the Bistro.

Saturday, October 12: 10 am - Noon Food Bank.

Sunday, October 13: 10 am Bishop’s Annual Visitation to St. Thomas’.

Loose plate offerings on Oct. 13th shall go

to the Bishop’s Discretionary Fund for the

support of emergencies and non-budgeted

ministries that arise during the year.

Please call Julia Royall if you have any information about the history of

our stained glass windows and / or the history of the donors. This will be

used for our Stained Glass Walking Tour brochure.

Please call the office if you would like to join the training for Lay

Eucharistic Ministers (LEMs).

Wanted: Choir members for the Thanksgiving, Advent and Christmas

services. Please contact Sue Bodar or Pamela Glasser.

Please sign up to provide Altar Flowers and to host Fellowship.

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church

9 S. 1st St., P.O. Box 735 Dubois, WY 82513

17 Pentecost, Proper 22, Year C

The Blessing of the Animals

October 6, 2019

“St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Dubois, Wyoming, seeks

to live out the Great Commandment of Jesus Christ

to love God and love neighbor as self.

We endeavor to do this

first by opening our hearts to God in worship,

and then, inspired by God's Holy Spirit,

to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ

in feeding the hungry, clothing the needy,

and helping all our neighbors in time of want and trouble."

Celebrant / Preacher: The Reverend Bob McNamara

Eucharistic Minister: Mary Ellen Honsaker Lector: Dorothy Remy

Acolyte: Kurt and Jerry Falco Music: Pamela Glasser

Altar Guild: Nancie Vion-Loisel, Lillie Lichtenwalner, Toni Finley,

Janice Peck. Cindie Watson, Sandy Lahr.

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church

Holy Eucharist Rite II

17 Pentecost, Proper 22, Year C

The Blessing of the Animals

October 6, 2019 10 a.m.

Welcome to our church. Please notice there are

age-appropriate soft toys and crayons in the back of the sanctuary.

Prelude

Introit Songbook 111 (sung twice) …... Surely, the presence

Processional Hymn 551 ............... Rise up ye saints of God!

Opening Acclamation ........................................ BCP p. 355

Collect for Purity

Gloria in excelsis ......................................... Hymnal S-280

(Collect and readings are found on your insert.)

Collect of the Day

First Reading ................................. Lamentations 1:1-6

Lamentations 3:19-26 ............................ Bulletin insert

Second Reading ................................ 2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sequence Hymn 691 .................... My faith looks up to thee

The Holy Gospel according to Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Nicene Creed ..................................................... BCP p. 358

Prayers of the People Form III .......................... BCP p. 387

Anglican Cycle of Prayer: Pray for the Church in Wales.

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Pray for 53rd Annual Diocesan

Convention.

Daily Prayers: Pray for those in our Armed Services.

(Please add your own intercessions and thanksgivings when invited.)

Concluding Collect

Confession and Absolution .................................. BCP p. 360

The Peace (We greet one another in the name of the Lord.)

(Those who have animals please come to the front.)

A Prayer read by Lay reader ....................... Bulletin insert

A Prayer read by Celebrant ......................... Bulletin insert

The Blessing of our Animals

(Those with animals please return to pews during the Offertory Hymn.)

Offertory Sentence

(Please be seated as the alms are being collected.)

Offertory Hymn 405 .......... All things bright and beautiful

Presentation Hymn (sung to tune of Hymn 400): Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise God, all creatures high and low, alleluia, alleluia!

Praise God in Jesus fully known:

Creator, Word, and Spirit One:

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Eucharistic Prayer A ........................................ BCP p. 361

Sanctus (sung) ............................................. Hymnal S-130

The Lord’s Prayer ............................................ BCP p. 364

The Breaking of the Bread ............................... BCP p. 364

(All who love the Lord are welcome at his table. You may be seated

until you come forward to receive. Gluten-free wafers are available.)

Communion Songbook pg. 25 .......................... El Shaddai

Songbook pg. 156 ................. O, adoramus te

Postcommunion Prayer .................................... BCP p. 365

Blessing

Announcements (Please see the back of the bulletin.)

Recessional Hymn 537 ........ Christ for the world we sing!

Dismissal ......................................................... BCP p. 366

Postlude

Please join us in the Coffee Room

after the service for refreshments and fellowship.