This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIII 44

Telling the Bees

(An old Gloucestershire superstition)

by the Rev’d G. E. Rees., first published in the Westminster Gazette (1917)

They dug no grave for our soldier lad, who fought and who died out there: Bugle and drum for him were dumb, and the padre said no prayer; The passing bell gave never a peal to warn that . . . → Read More: Telling the Bees

Saint Martin

O Lord Jesus Christ, who didst endue thy soldier Saint Martin with the spirit of sacrifice, and didst exalt him as Bishop to be a great defender of the Faith: Grant us grace to follow in his holy steps, that at the last we may be found clothed with righteousness, in the dwellings of peace; . . . → Read More: Saint Martin

The Twenty–Third Sunday after Trinity

O God, our refuge and strength, who art the author of all godliness: Be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy Church; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.