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The Sermon for Sunday May 17th – Ascension Sunday

the church in 2001

Here is the sermon for Sunday May 17th: Ascension Sunday, 2015

Parish income continues
 to grow

Calendar 2014 was a further year of income growth for St Stephen’s Anglican Church, with total income up by 1.0 percent from $374,402 in 2013 to $378,221.

Whilst our regular contributions were down 6% to $282,299, our Gifts and Non-recurring Donations, which includes our Endowment Fund, was up 69% from $19,694 in 2013 to . . . → Read More: Parish income continues
 to grow

Pictures from the 2015 Garden Party

Victoria watches Punch and Judy

We’ve got pictures from this year’s British Garden Party and Fête. It was a beautiful day, and it was a spectacular success. Check out these photos—we’ll let you know if we add to the album.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria watches Professor Horn’s Punch and Judy show at the Garden Party (along . . . → Read More: Pictures from the 2015 Garden Party

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 19

The Sunday after Ascension Day

Ascension woodcut

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 the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before, who . . . → Read More: The Sunday after Ascension Day

The Ascension Day

Jesus ascending to Heaven

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 thither . . . → Read More: The Ascension Day

Ascension Eve

The Ascension

O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men: Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where . . . → Read More: Ascension Eve

A marvellous day in
 the garden!

Garden Party maypole

Once again this year, the sun shone on St Stephen’s Garden Party, providing a bit of Britain to guests who enjoyed the authentic food, pub offerings, maypole, and a festive atmosphere as only the British can provide.

Our Master of Ceremonies, Bill Hawkins, kept events moving along. The procession was piped in by the John . . . → Read More: A marvellous day in
 the garden!

The Sermon for Sunday May 10th – Rogation Sunday

Fr Kerouac

Here is the sermon for Sunday May 10th: Rogation, 2015

This week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVI No 18