Our Bells will be Ringing – Our Prayers Ascending
John Thomas Buchanan has organized a group to ring our church bell three times a day beginning this Friday. The bells will call us to prayer at 8:00 a.m., noon,…
Finding Our Holy Spaces
Author: Sharron Carnes, Senior Warden Like many families, we had made plans months ago to go on a spring break skiing trip. Although we were well aware of the corona virus,…
Sunday Services Continue Live on Facebook
We will be live-streaming our 10:30 a.m. service on Sunday on Facebook. This will be a service of Morning Prayer and can be found in the Book of Common Prayer…
A Word from Fr. Mike
It was just a week ago that I sent you my first e-news about COVID-19. Much has changed in that time and continues to change. The routines and rhythms of…
3/17/2020 Update on Covid-19
March 17, 2020 Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: Since I last wrote you concerning COVID-19 President Trump has issued some new guidelines, and last night the…
SPEC’s Response to COVID-19
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: By now you are acutely aware of the novel coronavirus and its associated illness COVID-19. This is a respiratory illness that…
Have you seen our new website?
Our New Website Is Up! We have completed our work on our branding strategy and now our newly branded website is up and running. This new website includes additional updated…
NEW Logo for the Diocese of West Texas
It looks like we weren't the only ones working on a rebranding in 2019. At the recent council of the DWTX, Emily Kittrell, Diocesan Director of Marketing and Communications, unveiled the…
ChoRuss is Coming Back to St. Philip’s
We are pleased to announce that the wonderful Ensemble “ChoRuss” will be back in Uvalde in May to entertain and delight us once again. Last year we weren’t sure what…
Diocesan Council 2020 Updates
Rebecca Taylor's words on her first DWTX Council: With the beautiful Corpus Christi shoreline as our backdrop, hundreds of delegates from the Diocese of West Texas met last week to…
Read The Rev. Dr. Michael K. Marsh’s Sermons
AN EPISCOPAL PRIEST’S SERMONS, PRAYERS, AND REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, BECOMING HUMAN, AND DISCOVERING OUR DIVINITY
Interrupting the Silence
- All Shall Be Well – A Sermon On Psalm 23 And COVID-19"All shall be well. All shall be well. Every manner of thing shall be well." I hope you will hold on to what those words say. Let them bind you to faith, hope, and love, and connect you to one another. The theme of those words - all shall be well - is the thread […]
- The First Sunday Of COVID-19 – A Reflection On Exodus 17:1-7It was The Third Sunday in Lent. We had planned to celebrate the Holy Eucharist beginning with the penitential order. It ended up being a different kind of Sunday; not your usual Third Sunday in Lent. We omitted the penitential order and began the liturgy with a prayer concerning COVID-19. There was no water in […]
- A Prayer Concerning COVID-19God the Father, your will for all people is health and salvation;We praise you and thank you, O Lord. God the Son, you came that we might have life, and might have it more abundantly;We praise you and thank you, O Lord. God the Holy Spirit, you make our bodies the temple of your presence;We […]
- The Perfect Question For Ash Wednesday – An Ash Wednesday SermonAsh Wednesday – Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” That’s the last line of Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day.” I had never thought of my life as wild and precious until I read her question. I love the invitation, freedom, and […]