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“St Dunstan praying before Christ”, from the Glastonbury Classbook (10th century). The kneeling monk in the lower right is believed to be a self-portrait by Dunstan, who was a famous illustrator. From Wikipedia. Almighty God, who didst raise up Saint Dunstan to restore the discipline of the Church and to be a . . . → Read More: Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury  
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We have begun posting the minutes of the monthly Vestry meetings. You can find them on the Vestry meeting minutes page. We’ll post a note here when new sets of minutes are posted. Detail of a miniature of a hermit at work on a manuscript, from the Estoire del Saint Graal, France . . . → Read More: Vestry meeting minutes  
Here is the sermon for Sunday May 13th: Ascension, 2018 
Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXIX No 18 
The Ascension, by Giotto di Bondone (1266/7–1337). From Wikiart. O God, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven: We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto . . . → Read More: The Sunday after Ascension Day 
Joan at the Coronation of Charles VII, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780—1867). From Wikipedia. O God, who didst endue thy servant Saint Joan with singular courage to withstand her enemies in the evil day: Grant us grace that, enduring hardness and waxing valiant in fight, we may with her receive the crown of . . . → Read More: Saint Joan of Arc 
Ascension by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) ¶ This Collect is to be said daily throughout the Octave. Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only–begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart and mind . . . → Read More: The Ascension Day 
St Augustine Reading the Epistle of St Paul (Conversion of Augustine of Hippo [Tolle Lege]), by Benozzo Gozzoli. Fresco in an Aspidal Chapel, Sant’Agostino, San Gimignano. Renew in thy Church, we pray, O Lord, that spirit with which thou hast endowed thy Bishop Saint Augustine; that, filled with the same spirit, we may . . . → Read More: The Conversion of Saint Augustine 
Gregory the Theologian (Gregory of Nazianzus), by Andrei Rublev (1360s–late 1420s). From Wikipedia. O God, who hast enlightened thy Church by the teaching of thy servant Gregory Nazianzus: Enrich it evermore, we beseech thee, with thy heavenly grace, and raise up faithful witnesses, who by their life and doctrine may set forth . . . → Read More: Saint Gregory of Nazianzus |
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