Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 6
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 O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy . . . → Read More: The First Sunday in Lent ¶ This Collect is to be said every day in Lent, after the Collect appointed for the day, until Palm Sunday. Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily . . . → Read More: Ash Wednesday  Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 5  Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems clear that America’s leading political and intellectual elite is growing increasingly naïve. How else can one explain their predilection for adopting unlikely—even bizarre—solutions to problems their grandparents solved easily and without fuss. Take teenage pregnancy, for example. Mayor Bloomberg of New York is tackling this serious problem by stepping . . . → Read More: Why fings ain’t wot they yoosed ter be O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus . . . → Read More: Quinquagesima Sunday: the Sunday Next before Lent St Stephen’s Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Sausage Supper takes place on February 12th. These famous suppers are not only gastronomic events, they are also real inflation fighters. The price has remained unchanged for 22 years. We challenge you to find anything in Baltimore with a comparable record! For a mere $5 per adult you can . . . → Read More: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on February 26th Vision of Cornelius the Centurion by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674). Walters Art Gallery 37.2492 O God, who by thy Spirit didst call Cornelius the Centurion to be the first Christian among the Gentiles: Grant to thy Church, we beseech thee, such a ready will to go where thou dost send and to . . . → Read More: Cornelius the Centurion Folks familiar with Church history usually claim the first English Prayer Book is the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI, which was authorized for use in 1549. True, this wonderful book is the ancestor of all the Books of Common Prayer in use in the world of Anglicanism today—albeit a very distant one in . . . → Read More: Questions about the BCP you never had the courage to ask ¶ The modern observance of this feast, together with that of Saint Timothy, is on January 26. O God, who by thine Apostle Saint Paul didst consecrate thy servant Titus a Bishop in the Church, that he might set in order things that were wanting: Give grace, we humbly beseech thee, to the Bishops and . . . → Read More: Saint Titus |
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