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The Annual Parish Meeting, held after the 9:15 AM service on Sunday, December 30th, 2018, was short and to the point. You can watch an archived Facebook Live stream on my Facebook page. Highlights of the meeting include the Rector’s report on the state of the parish (including a review of the parish’s finances), . . . → Read More: Annual Parish Meeting: ICYMI  
Saint Sylvester overcomes the dragon of the Tarpeian Rock, by Battista da Vicenza (1375?–1438) 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 . . . → Read More: Saint Sylvester 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 . . . → Read More: The First Sunday after Christmas Day 
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 
The Massacre of the Innocents, from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1644). From Wikipedia. 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 . . . → Read More: The Holy Innocents 
The Ladies at Weigh Station No 1, Cookie Walk 2018 Merry Christmas to All! St Stephen’s Annual Parish Meeting will be held this Sunday, December 30th, following the 9:15 AM service. Attached is the Parish Life Treasurers Report, which will be available at the meeting. Since the report was compiled, additional . . . → Read More: Annual Parish Meeting 
Here are Fr Kerouac’s sermons for Advent 4 and Christmas Day. 
Saint John and the Poisoned Cup, by El Greco (1541–1614). From Wikipedia. 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 . . . → Read More: Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist 
Martyrdom of St Stephen 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 . . . → Read More: Saint Stephen 
¶ This Collect is to be said daily throughout the Octave. Nativity, by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–89). From Wikimedia. 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, . . . → Read More: The Nativity of Our Lord: Christmas Day |
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