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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  
Here is the sermon for Sunday December 27th: Christmas 1, 2015  
This year the economy, the weather, the U.S. Postal Service, and sheer dumb luck conspired against the Cookie Walk. But, despite the odds stacked against it, St Stephen’s 26th Annual Cookie Walk was nonetheless a remarkable success. Parish Life Committee Treasurer, Cindy Baker, reported that takings on the day of the Cookie Walk itself totalled . . . → Read More: The Cookie Walk: a great success against the odds 
The Martyrdom of Thomas Becket O God, by whose grace and power thy holy Martyr Thomas triumphed over suffering, and despised death: Grant, we beseech thee, that enduring hardness, and waxing valiant in fight we may with him receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. . . . → Read More: Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury 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  Many people are hot under the collar over the ugly reaction by some in politics and the media to the public officials, including presidential candidates, who declared they would be offering prayers for the victims of the recent Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Their anger is perfectly justified. No matter one’s opinion about . . . → Read More: Pray for those who won’t pray for the San Bernadino victims 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. Highlights from the December 28th, 2015, meeting of the Parish Life Meeting: Cookie Walk – Final figures for the Cookie Walk will be available at the next meeting, as there are continuing sales of items. Many positive comments were received, especially on the selection of cookies and the helpful, friendly volunteers. Church decorating – All . . . → Read More: December Parish Life meeting recap (December 8th 2015) 
Video footage of students at some of the nation’s most highly regarded universities and colleges brow-beating and obscenely berating their professors and administrators was eerily reminiscent Chairman Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, youthful Red Guards—many of them students—rampaged through China purging schools, universities, government, industry, the military, and the Communist Party . . . → Read More: There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities 
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 |
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