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Category Archives: Life Events
Sermon from the Funeral of Paul Schenck
PAUL EDGAR SCHENCK
(February 2, 1929-March 30, 2022)
Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent
April 2, 2022
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11a, 13; Psalm 23; Romans 14: 7-9; Saint John 14: 1-6
In nomine Jesu!
In the Book of Genesis we are told that “there were giants on the earth in those days;” who were “the mighty men of old, men of renown.” We don’t really know who they were then; nor what made them “men of renown.” But we do know – all of us know, even a late-comer like me knows — that we can apply that description to Paul Edgar Schenck now. By any measure, Paul was a giant of a man – a strong man, a family man, a faithful man, a patriotic man, a renaissance man, a churchman, Christ’s man, a renowned man. And Paul would tell us exactly what, or rather who made him that way. The Lord Jesus Christ, Paul would say. In fact, that is exactly what Paul is saying to all of us today with his choice of another Paul’s words to the Romans: “We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.” Paul lived his life, served his country, loved his wife, raised his family, conducted his career, followed his passions, served this church, and met his death confidently trusting that “whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” He chose for us to hear those words today because it was by those very words that he lived his life and met his death.
Epiphany Bilingual Service and More at Worship This Weekend (No Livestream)
Epiphany Bilingual Service and Observance with Incense: Saturday, January 8 at 6:00 p.m. in the nave
Epiphany Bulletin 1/8
Brief Order of Holy Communion: Sunday, January 9 at 8:30 a.m. in the nave
Holy Communion: Sunday, January 9 at 11:00 a.m. in the nave
Bulletin for 11 a.m. 1/9
Join us on Saturday, January 8, to bless the nave, our “church house”, with the blessing of the magi. At the end of the service, we will move to the narthex for the inscription of the lintel for the 2022 year. We will celebrate the occasion with king cake after worship. A printed prayer rite and chalk can be taken home to inscribe and bless one’s own house or door.
There will be no livestream this weekend.
Memorial Service for Allan John Dieter
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 25th, 10 o’clock am at Christ theKing Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Blvd, Houston, TX, 77005. If you are unable to join us, there will be a Livestream of the service which can be viewed here on our YouTube page.
Please share a fond memory about Allan on the Neptune Society site. In lieu of flowers, consider donating in Allan’s memory to the ACLU, Wartburg College, or Christ the King Lutheran Church.
Memorial Service for Harold Mathis
The memorial service for Harold Mathis will be held
this Saturday, September 25, at 2:00 p.m. at Christ the King Church.
Per Harold’s wishes, worshipers are asked to wear masks and social distance.
If you are unable to join us, there will be a Livestream of the service which can be viewed here on our YouTube page.