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Secondhand Rose, Second time around

Our Secondhand Rose Sale last week was quite a success. We have raised a considerable amount of money for the Sunday School playground. On the other hand, our donors surpassed themselves in their generosity, and we still have a substantial amount of gently-used clothing and accessories for sale. So we’re going for Round . . . → Read More: Secondhand Rose, Second time around

It’s time to start thinking about Cookie Walk 2012

Here I am again. They won’t let me air my views on politics or religion or, in fact, anything controversial. All they do is pressgang me into writing commercials for Cookie Walk 2012. The Cookie Walk will be early this year. The event takes place on Saturday, December 1st from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. . . . → Read More: It’s time to start thinking about Cookie Walk 2012

Too many churches abdicate their duty towards our cities

The exponential growth of Islam here in America comes as a tremendous shock to the average middle class Christian. This, to be sure, has always been a tolerant country. But above all it has been a Christian country. How is it, they ask, that this alien creed has so rapidly taken root?

The answer would . . . → Read More: Too many churches abdicate their duty towards our cities

Sermon for Sunday October 21st – Trinity XX

Here is the sermon for Sunday October 21st: Trinity 20, 2012

This week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIII 41

The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity

O Almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Saint Luke

Almighty God, who didst inspire thy servant Saint Luke the Physician, to set forth in the Gospel the love and healing power of thy Son: Manifest in thy Church the like power and love, to the healing of our bodies and our souls; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

¶ Or . . . → Read More: Saint Luke

Saint Etheldreda

O God, who didst call thy servant Queen Etheldreda to an earthly throne that she might advance thy heavenly kingdom: Mercifully grant that we who commemorate her faith may be fruitful in good works, and attain to the crown of peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley

Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like thy servants Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, we may live in thy fear, die in thy favour, and rest in thy peace; for the sake of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the . . . → Read More: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley

Saint Teresa of Avila

Harken unto us, O God our Saviour, that as we rejoice in the festival of blessed Teresa, Thy virgin, so we may find food for the nourishment of our souls in her heavenly doctrine, and be instructed by the affection of pious devotion; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in . . . → Read More: Saint Teresa of Avila