Most merciful God, we humbly pray thee, that like as when thy blessed Abbot Sylvester was devoutly meditating over an open tomb on the vanity of this life, thou didst vouchsafe to call him thence unto the desert, and to adorn him with a life of wondrous merit: so thou wouldest enable us after his . . . → Read More: Saint Sylvester
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 As has been our custom, this will be the last issue of St. Stephen’s News until January 7th. It’s also a fitting time to say thank you to the stalwart gang that gathers every Thursday morning to prepare our newsletter for mailing: Donna Szper, Joyce Perlberg, Mar Bobst, and Jim Halbert. Judging from the . . . → Read More: Time off for good behavior  Most of the non–liturgical activities are on hiatus this week. There will be no Fellowship Breakfast at the Nautilus Diner on Tuesday, the 3s1t; no Bridge Group on Wednesday, the the 1st; and no Knitting Circle on Thursday, the 2nd. Services remain largely the same: Tuesday, December 31st, 11:15 PM: Said Holy Communion (New Year’s . . . → Read More: Holiday Hiatus  Here is the sermon for Sunday December 29th: St Stephen, 2013  Almighty God, who hast given us thy only–begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, . . . → Read More: The First Sunday after Christmas Day O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith even unto death, we may . . . → Read More: The Holy Innocents Here is the sermon for December 25th – Christmas Day: Christmastide, 2013 Merciful Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it, being illumined by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John, may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to life everlasting; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Grant, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first . . . → Read More: Saint Stephen ¶ This Collect is to be said daily throughout the Octave. Almighty God, who hast given us thy only–begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed . . . → Read More: The Nativity of Our Lord: Christmas Day |
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