More podcasts!

We’ve added three new sermon podcasts. Actually, one isn’t a sermon, it’s Fr Hawtin’s traditional Children’s Story, which he tells—in lieu of a sermon—at the Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve. The other’s are Fr Kerouac’s sermon for Christmas Day, and his sermon for this past Sunday, Quinquagesima. They can all be found on our . . . → Read More: More podcasts!

Shrove Tuesday

Pancake

Lord, give us grace to inaugurate with holy fasting the defenses of Christian warfare, so that we who are to fight against spiritual wickedness, may be helped and strengthened by self-denial; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

¶ Or this:

O God of infinite mercy, grant that we who know thy compassion may . . . → Read More: Shrove Tuesday

Quinquagesima Sunday: the Sunday Next before Lent

Chi Rho mosaic

Chi Rho mosaic from Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery

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 . . . → Read More: Quinquagesima Sunday: the Sunday Next before Lent

The Sermon for Sunday February 4th – Sexagesima

Fr Hawtin

Here is the sermon for Sunday February 4th: Sexagesima, 2018

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXIX No 4

The Bible: A great profit comes throughout the land

Publishing house publicity departments never tire of trumpeting the fact that The Bible is world’s best selling book. But, truth to tell, it has been on the bestseller list ever since it first came out.

Next time you visit a bookshop, stroll over to the Religious Section and take look at the different editions of . . . → Read More: The Bible: A great profit comes throughout the land

Sexagesima Sunday: Second Sunday before Lent

Chi Rho mosaic

Chi Rho mosaic from Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery

O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do: Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

. . . → Read More: Sexagesima Sunday: Second Sunday before Lent

Saint Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden

Saint Anskar

We beseech thee, O Lord, to pour thy grace on all who go to other lands, publishing the word of salvation: That, following the patient labours of thy servant Anskar, who carried the message of thy Gospel beyond the sea, they may gather many believers into the fold of thy holy church; through the . . . → Read More: Saint Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden

Saint Blaise (Blase or Blasius)

Saint Blase

O Almighty God, who didst give to thy servant Blaise boldness to confess the Name of our Saviour Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world, and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us, and to suffer . . . → Read More: Saint Blaise (Blase or Blasius)

Saint Isaac the Great

Sahak Parthev Catholicos

Sahek Partev Catholicos (Pontiff Isaac the Parthian) by Francesco Maggiotto (1750-1805)

Be mindful, Lord, of thy holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, and bless it with shepherds who will lead it as St Isaac the Great led the ancient church in Armenia: causing an alphabet to be created, and the Holy Bible to be . . . → Read More: Saint Isaac the Great