How we came to be the way that we are

St Stephen’s was founded by the Baltimore branch of the Prayer Book Society in 1982. It was a typically dogged Maryland response to an edict by the Episcopal Diocese banning the use of the 1928 edition of the Prayer Book and mandating by fiat the new book of 1979.

The new book was not entirely . . . → Read More: How we came to be the way that we are

Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Westminster

O Lord and Father, our King and God, by whose grace the Church was enriched by the great learning and eloquent preaching of thy servant Lancelot Andrewes, but even more by his example of biblical and liturgical prayer: Conform our lives, like his, we beseech thee, to the image of Christ, that our hearts may . . . → Read More: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Westminster

St Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow

O God, whose blessed Son became poor that we through his poverty might be rich: Deliver us, we pray thee, from an inordinate love of this world, that inspired by the devotion of thy servant Sergius of Moscow, we may serve thee with singleness of heart, and attain to the riches of the age to . . . → Read More: St Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow