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Las lágrimas de San Pedro (The tears of Saint Peter), by El Greco (1541–1614) O God, who didst bestow upon thy blessed Apostle Saint Peter the keys of the kingdom in heaven, and didst appoint unto him the priesthood for the binding and the loosing of sin: Grant, we beseech thee, that by . . . → Read More: Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy . . . → Read More: The First Sunday in Lent The Saturday Family Eucharist for February 21st is cancelled: it’s simply too dangerous to travel the roads right now. Stay home and stay safe. In lieu of the service, consider reading Evening Prayer (page 21 in the BCP), or using the Family version of Evening Prayer (page 589 in the BCP). Winter . . . → Read More: Saturday Family Eucharist cancelled due to snow  This year’s Lenten Bible Study series takes place on Wednesdays in Lent (not including Ash Wednesday or Spy Wednesday): February 25th. and March 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th. This year’s topic is “Exploring The Torah”, led by Fr Guy Hawtin and Fr Mike Kerouac. Each session will be self-contained, so if you miss one . . . → Read More: Lenten Bible Study ¶ 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, that we, worthily . . . → Read More: Ash Wednesday  
Sorry to say so, but either the President could do with an intensive course in world history, or he was being deliberately disingenuous when, at the National Prayer Breakfast, he claimed that the Crusades and the Inquisition are somehow the moral equivalent of the Islamic State’s barbarism in Syria and Iraq. . . . → Read More: President Obama is quite wrong about the Crusades  
Here is the sermon for Sunday Feb 15th: Quinquagesima, 2015 
Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXVI No 6 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 is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine only Son Jesus . . . → Read More: Quinquagesima Sunday: the Sunday Next before Lent 
Saint Valentine baptizing Saint Lucilla by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (1510—1592). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Almighty God, by whose grace and power thy holy Martyr Valentine triumphed over suffering and despised death: Grant, we beseech the, that enduring hardness and waxing valiant in fight, we may with . . . → Read More: Saint Valentine |
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