ICYMI: Deacon Dan Bursi reads “The Raven”

The Raven (Corvus Corax)

Here’s a brief excerpt of Deacon Dan Bursi reading “The Raven” after this evening’s Family Eucharist.

Deacon Dan Bursi reading Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’ Bursi The Raven

Set your clocks back tonight!

Fall Back

It’s the end of Daylight Saving Time! Not permanently, alas, but for the year. If you forget and show up to church early, you can use this opportunity to meet the parishioners who attend the previous service.

Raven it up for Halloween

Halloween is not the most cerebral of festivals, but, just for fun, The Rev. Dan Bursi, a talented thespian, is hoping to add a literary dimension to the celebration. Why not join him in the Cadwalader Room after the 5:00 PM Eucharist on All Hallows Eve, Saturday, 31 October, for a reading of Edgar . . . → Read More: Raven it up for Halloween

Some great cookie recipes
 for the 24th Cookie Walk

Cookie Walk Servers

It’s funny how the flight of time dims the memory! Members of the Parish Life Committee were recently trying to figure out how many years we had been holding the Cookie Walk at St Stephen’s. Most seemed to agree that this year’s event would be the 22nd.

Colby Hawks, however, was pretty sure it would . . . → Read More: Some great cookie recipes
 for the 24th Cookie Walk

The best kept musical
 secret in Baltimore

singers

People come from far and wide to hear St Stephen’s Choir of Men and Boys sing our monthly services of Evensong. Choral Evensong is the one of the great gifts the Anglican world has given the Church catholick, and it is cherished not only by Anglicans, but by music-lovers of many persuasions—including those with none . . . → Read More: The best kept musical
 secret in Baltimore

Halloween in Britain: It
 ain’t what it used to be

Medmenham Abbey

Today Halloween in Britain is celebrated almost as extravagantly as it is in America. Witches, ghosts, goblins, and carved pumpkins now abound on both sides of the Atlantic, but things were quite different when I was a child.

It was not really a time of celebration. In cities and towns, it passed virtually unnoticed. . . . → Read More: Halloween in Britain: It
 ain’t what it used to be

Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Saint Simon and Saint Jude

O Almighty God, who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the head corner–stone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their doctrine, that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. . . . → Read More: Saint Simon and Saint Jude

King Alfred, King of the West Saxons

King Alfred the Great

King Alfred the Great. From Wikimedia.

O God, who didst raise up King Alfred to serve and minister unto his people: Grant that we, and all our countrymen who bear office in the world, may think lightly of earthly place and honour, and seek rather to do the things that are pleasing . . . → Read More: King Alfred, King of the West Saxons

The Sermon for Sunday October 25th – Trinity XXI

Fr Kerouac

Here is the sermon for Sunday October 25th: Trinity 21, 2015

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 42