No Bridge Club on Thursdays

If you were planning on showing up for Bridge Club this Thursday evening, you’ll have to change your plans. With the end of football season, the Bridge Club has resumed meeting at its usual time, viz., at 2:30 PM on Sunday afternoons. This meeting time will continue until the resumption of football in the fall.

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Sacked and pillaged by the dreaded Ninja mice

Thanks to the cold weather, the rectory has again been inundated with a plague of mice of dimensions unmatched since Moses was slugging it out with Pharaoh. The miserable little critters get into everything. Flour, rice, cookies, chips, bread, potatoes—you name it, they’ll eat it.

As the weeks have passed, they have become bolder and . . . → Read More: Sacked and pillaged by the dreaded Ninja mice

The Sermon for Sunday February 24th – Lent II

Here is the sermon for Sunday February 24th: Lent 2, 2013

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 7

Saint Matthias

O Almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the twelve Apostles: Grant that thy Church, being alway preserved from false Apostles, may be ordered and guided by faithful and true pastors; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Second Sunday in Lent

Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ . . . → Read More: The Second Sunday in Lent

Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch

O God, who didst bestow upon thy blessed Apostle Saint Peter the keys of the kingdom in heaven, and didst appoint unto him the priesthood for the binding and the loosing of sin: Grant, we beseech thee, that by the help of his intercession we may be delivered from the bonds of all our iniquities; . . . → Read More: Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch

An appeal for At Jacob’s Well

The first Sunday of each month is set aside as a time to remember the needs of the men and women served by At Jacob’s Well, an organization that has been housing Baltimore’s homeless mentally ill for over 25 years. Unfortunately the amount collected at our monthly in-giving has dwindled somewhat of late.

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The folks who slyly and subtly distort history

THE philosopher George Santayana famously observed: “Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” They are words so wise they should be tattooed on the forehead of every aspiring politician.

And it would certainly do no harm to tattoo them on the foreheads of every journalist, opinion maker, and movie . . . → Read More: The folks who slyly and subtly distort history

The Sermon for Sunday February 17th – Lent I

Here is the sermon for Sunday February 17th :Lent 1, 2013