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The Sermon for Sunday June 18th – Trinity I

Fr Hawtin

Here is the sermon for Sunday June 18th: Trinity 1, 2017

This Week’s Newsletter

new church tower with weathercock-bw

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXVIII No 23

Summers with matches, a ball of string & a slingshot

Summers were endlessly sunny when I was a boy—at least that’s the way I remember them. Actually, that’s arrant nonsense. I grew up in southern England where rain is virtually a permanent climatic condition. But I’ve probably wiped the rainy days from my memory because we boys always spent our summers outside.

I’m sure if . . . → Read More: Summers with matches, a ball of string & a slingshot

The First Sunday after Trinity

Trinity (celtic knot)

O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and . . . → Read More: The First Sunday after Trinity

Corpus Christi

Jenaro Pérez Villaamil The Corpus Christi Procession inside Seville Catedral

O Lord Jesus Christ, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion: Grant us, we beseech thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption; who livest and reignest with the Father and the . . . → Read More: Corpus Christi

Saint Basil, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia and Doctor

St Basil of Caesarea

mosaic of St Basil of Caesarea (St Basil the Great), in the Cathedral of St Sophia, Kiev (11th century). From Wikimedia

Almighty God, whose precepts are the wisdom of a loving Father: Enable us, after the teaching and example of thy servant Saint Basil, to walk as one family in the excellent . . . → Read More: Saint Basil, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia and Doctor

Marginalizing Christianity carries a very high price

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned …”

—W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

Washington and the capitals of Europe are currently awash with scandals—both real and imagined. Revelations, for example, that the former . . . → Read More: Marginalizing Christianity carries a very high price

Altar Flowers — Trinity 2017

Altar Flowers 2017-06-11 Trinity

Altar Flowers, Trinity 2017

The Sermon for Sunday June 11th – Trinity Sunday

Fr Kerouac

Here is the sermon for Sunday June 11th: Trinity Sunday, 2017

This Week’s Newsletter

new church tower with weathercock-bw

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXVIII No 22