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The Sermon for Sunday February 18th – Lent I

Fr Hawtin

Here is the sermon for Sunday February 18th: Lent 1, 2018

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXIX No 6

The Sermon for Sunday February 11th – Quinquagesima

Fr Kerouac

Here is the sermon for Sunday February 11th:Quinquagesima, 2018

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXIX No 5

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

¶ This Collect is to be said every day in Lent, after the Collect appointed for the day, until Palm Sunday.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, . . . → Read More: Ash Wednesday

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

new church tower with weathercock-bw

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