Welcome to St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Pampa, Texas! We are delighted that you stopped by our site. We hope that your visit to our site will not only be a helpful resource of information but that it will also be a source of encouragement and inspiration as you explore our online resources and sample our audio clips of live worship music recorded each week at our 9:30 AM service.
Experience the beauty of the congregation of St. Matthew's in worship as you listen to the excerpts of music available in "The Sounds of St. Matthew's" section. And then experience the beauty of worship first hand by attending one of our Sunday morning worship services at 8:00 AM (no music or choir at early service) or 9:30 AM.
We have had some perfectly gorgeous spring mornings during this Eastertide. On the way to church last Sunday I found myself reciting a poem that I had memorized as an assignment in Mrs. Wigton’s 4th grade class.
This is the well-known snippet from Robert Browning’s Pippa Passes:
The year’s at the spring And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hillside’s dew-pearled. The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his heaven - All’s right with the world!
It might be easier to envision Browning’s dew-pearled, lark-winging spring morning in the English countryside than in the high plains of the Texas panhandle. But we have had enough life-giving rain to green things up pretty nicely this spring. We will continue to offer prayers for more rain! The beautiful singing of birds awakens me before the alarm clock goes off in the morning. Also my beloved barn swallows have returned to “summer” under the protec-tion of my patio.
