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Saint Michael and All Angels

O Everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order: Mercifully grant that, as thy holy Angels always do thee service in heaven, so, by thy appointment, they may succour and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 38

The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 

Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

How we came to be the way that we are

St Stephen’s was founded by the Baltimore branch of the Prayer Book Society in 1982. It was a typically dogged Maryland response to an edict by the Episcopal Diocese banning the use of the 1928 edition of the Prayer Book and mandating by fiat the new book of 1979.

The new book was not entirely . . . → Read More: How we came to be the way that we are

Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Westminster

O Lord and Father, our King and God, by whose grace the Church was enriched by the great learning and eloquent preaching of thy servant Lancelot Andrewes, but even more by his example of biblical and liturgical prayer: Conform our lives, like his, we beseech thee, to the image of Christ, that our hearts may . . . → Read More: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Westminster

St Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow

O God, whose blessed Son became poor that we through his poverty might be rich: Deliver us, we pray thee, from an inordinate love of this world, that inspired by the devotion of thy servant Sergius of Moscow, we may serve thee with singleness of heart, and attain to the riches of the age to . . . → Read More: St Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow

The Sermon for Sunday September 21st – Trinity XIV

Fr Hawtin

Here is the sermon for Sunday September 21st: Trinity 14, 2014

The Sermon for the 20th Anniversary of St. Stephen’s Rededication Service – Saturday September 20th

Fr Kerouac

Here is the Sermon for the Rededication Service held on Saturday September 20th: 20th Anniversary

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 37

Saint Matthew

O Almighty God, who by thy blessed Son didst call Matthew from the receipt of custom to be an Apostle and Evangelist: Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires, and inordinate love of riches, and to follow the same thy Son Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one . . . → Read More: Saint Matthew