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Forget Dom Gregory Dix, typos shaped our liturgy

The trouble with being a two-finger typist is that one tends to make rather more typing errors than are tolerated at secretarial school. These typographical mistakes of mine drive some people crazy. I know because they’ve told me so. But try as I might, I seem quite incapable of preventing them.

It is, however, comforting . . . → Read More: Forget Dom Gregory Dix, typos shaped our liturgy

Saint Benedict

Almighty and everlasting God, whose precepts are the wisdom of a loving Father: Enable us, after the teaching and example of thy servant Saint Benedict, to walk as one family in the excellent paths of obedience, that thy blessing may prosper the works of our hands, and thine ears be open unto our prayers; through . . . → Read More: Saint Benedict

Pictures from Shrove Tuesday and St Patrick’s Day Suppers

Happy Riley takes great delight in preparing blueberry pancakes at St Stephen’s 2013 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper.

Hardly a month goes by without at least one special event (meaning a chance to eat, but Evensong is worth coming to, even without the grand receptions that follow), and St Stephen’s has had two in . . . → Read More: Pictures from Shrove Tuesday and St Patrick’s Day Suppers

Sermon for Sunday March 17th – Passion Sunday

Here is the Sermon for Sunday March 17th: Lent 5 Passion, 2013

This week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter : St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 10

Saint Patrick

St Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland, shown with the shamrock he used to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity

O God, who in thy providence didst choose thy servant Patrick to be the Apostle of the Irish people, that he might cause the light of the Gospel to shine in the world: Grant . . . → Read More: Saint Patrick

The Fifth Sunday in Lent: Passion Sunday

We beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people; that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Sermon for Sunday March 10th – Lent IV

Here is the sermon for Sunday March 3rd, by Fr Mike Kerouac, Lent 4, 2013.

Women’s Club Lunch

This month the Ladies Who Lunch will be meeting at the Szechuan House (in the shopping center at the corner of York Rd. and Seminary Ave.) at 12 noon on Wednesday, March 20th. Why not join us for a convivial get-together over a delicious meal? Good food and good fellowship—what more could you want? To . . . → Read More: Women’s Club Lunch

Two saints of the Church that converted the Brits

March is the month in which we celebrate the feast of two of the greatest Celtic saints—St David of Wales on March 1st and St Patrick of Ireland on March 17th.

According to the ancient chroniclers, the great Celtic Church was established in Britain in AD 37 or 38—some five years or so before . . . → Read More: Two saints of the Church that converted the Brits