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Summer Red Cross Blood Drive

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We’re going into the height of the summer season, and, as always, there is a critical need for blood donations. You can save a life with a single pint donation. With an increasing number of people who are ineligible to donate blood, now would be a good time to bring a friend, and get them . . . → Read More: Summer Red Cross Blood Drive

Root around in your yards to beautify the churchyard

The strip of grass along the entrance driveway has been cleared by Scott Taylor and his crew of volunteers. Now we are seeking perennial plants from home gardens to put in that space. Suggestions for plant donations are Stella D’Oro lily or other day lily, dusty miller, corabells, columbine, and any other deer resistant plants. . . . → Read More: Root around in your yards to beautify the churchyard

Independence Day

Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument 1986

Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument, 1986. Photo by SSgt Lono Kollars, USAF. From Wikimedia.

O Eternal God, through whose mighty power our fathers won their liberties of old: Grant, we beseech thee, that we and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain these liberties in . . . → Read More: Independence Day

Why not join us to sit back, relax and have a ball (of wool)?

Are the cares of the world weighing on your shoulders? Do you lay awake all night worrying about the kids, the grandkids, the outcome of the election? Are you swallowing antacid pills by the handfull? Or do you not give a hoot what the neighbors think and you don’t have a worry in the world? . . . → Read More: Why not join us to sit back, relax and have a ball (of wool)?

Altar Flowers — Trinity III, 2017

Altar Flowers, Trinity III, 2017

Altar Flowers, Trinity III, 2017

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Visitation of the BVM

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mosaic from the Clyde Adoration Chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

Father in heaven, by whose grace the virgin mother of thine incarnate Son was blessed in bearing him, but still more blessed in keeping thy word: Grant us who honour the exaltation . . . → Read More: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Sermon for Sunday July 2nd – Trinity III

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Here is the sermon for Sunday July 3rd: Trinity 3, 2017

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXVIII No 25

Time to put the backwoods back into public education

More than any previous generation, we are told, Americans aged 18 and under are thoroughly detached from traditional Christian concepts. By and large they do not believe Jesus Christ is the unique savior of mankind. They do not read the Bible as God’s word. And they do not accept the idea of moral absolutes.

“Futurists” . . . → Read More: Time to put the backwoods back into public education

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mosaic from the Clyde Adoration Chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

Father in heaven, by whose grace the virgin mother of thine incarnate Son was blessed in bearing him, but still more blessed in keeping thy word: Grant us who honour the exaltation . . . → Read More: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary