Memorial Service for Georgetta Eggleston replaces Friday Healing Eucharist

Instead of the Friday Healing Eucharist, normally scheduled for 10:30 AM, St Stephen’s will be holding a Memorial Service for Georgetta Eggleston this Friday, August 19th, at 11:00 AM.

Georgetta Eggleston (Died August 4, 2011)

On August 4, 2011, Georgetta U. Eggleston, beloved wife of the late Joseph William Eggleston, Jr.; loving mother of Drake . . . → Read More: Memorial Service for Georgetta Eggleston replaces Friday Healing Eucharist

Joking aside, Germany can teach us a lesson

From this week’s newsletter.

A German joke, the old saying goes, is no laughing matter. But like so many old sayings, it’s simply a load of baloney. German jokes are usually a hoot—not least because the rules of German grammar make it an ideal language in which to deliver punch lines.

The notion . . . → Read More: Joking aside, Germany can teach us a lesson

A salty tale from Austria

The Rector’s article in this week’s newsletter is a bit on the dense side for my taste. It needs a German joke or two to enliven it—like the one I heard from my Austrian cousin Eugen Adler:

Three Bavarians are drinking in a beer hall when a Prussian, uninvited, sits at their table. The . . . → Read More: A salty tale from Austria

Sermon for August 14th Trinity VIII

Here is the Sermon for Sunday August 14th : Trinity 8, 2011

This week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter : St. Stephen’s News XXII 32

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity

O God, whose never–failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth: We humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.