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Joyce Holmes Courtyard Garden Renovation

Joyce Holmes Courtyard Garden

Parishioner Fiodor (“Fedya”) Strikovski has done a wonderful job renovating the Joyce Holmes Courtyard Garden, installing a wonderful stone walk with border. Not only does the new stonework look wonderful, it has also solved some serious drainage problems in the courtyard (as evidenced by a couple of serious downpours after the work was finished. You . . . → Read More: Joyce Holmes Courtyard Garden Renovation

Podcasts!

Fr Michael Belt

St Stephen’s takes a step further into the internet age with our first podcast. The debut podcast is Fr Michael Belt’s sermon for Trinity V (5 July 2015). For your convenience, we’re including the link here, but you can find all future podcasts on the new Podcasts page in our Library.

http://www.ststeve.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-07-05_1100.mp3 . . . → Read More: Podcasts!

The Sermon for Sunday July 5th – Trinity V

the church in 2001

Here is the sermon for Sunday July 5th: Trinity 5, 2015

Afternoon Tea

Cup of Tea

The next Afternoon Tea is Thursday, August 6th, at 2:00 PM in Quimby Hall. If you have never before attended one of our Teas, you are in for a treat. We serve freshly cut sandwiches, savouries, cakes, cookies, and of course freshly baked scones, butter, strawberry jam with lashings of freshly whipped cream.

We . . . → Read More: Afternoon Tea

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 26

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity 

Trinity (celtic knot)

Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance, that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Independence Day

Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument 1986

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 righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Fourth of July fireworks behind the Washington Monument, . . . → Read More: Independence Day

July In-gathering for At Jacob’s Well

This Sunday is the first Sunday of the month, so we will be having our usual in-gathering of household items and non-perishable foodstuffs for At Jacob’s Well, a Baltimore charity which provides supportive housing for adults who are chronically mentally ill and experiencing homelessness, with the hope of ending their homelessness by creating . . . → Read More: July In-gathering for At Jacob’s Well

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Visitation of the BVM

¶ The modern observance of this feast is on May 31.

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 of her lowliness to follow the example of her devotion to . . . → Read More: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Saint Julius and Saint Aaron

Aerial view of Caerleon's Roman amphitheatre

Aerial view of Caerleon’s Roman amphitheatre, site of the martyrdom of Saint Julius and Saint Aaron. From Wikipedia.

Almighty god, by whose grace and power thy holy Martyrs Julius and Aaron triumphed over suffering, and despised death: Grant, we beseech thee, that enduring hardness, and waxing valiant in fight, we may with . . . → Read More: Saint Julius and Saint Aaron