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More Newsletters and Sermons

Our Library continues to grow. The archives now contain Sermons for 2010, and Newsletters for 2010 and 2009.

A Collect for Aid against All Gullibility

O God, who seest the wise man and the simple, the clever man and the fool: Grant us to believe upon thy Holy Word with the faith of children, yet grant us also the wisdom to discern the folly of false prophets; and save us from false shepherds who would lead thy faithful flock astray. . . . → Read More: A Collect for Aid against All Gullibility

A Collect for the Rapture

O Lord, All-Knowing and Unknowable God, whose Son hath warned that he shall return like a thief in the night, and that no man on earth, nor any angel in heaven, knoweth the time of his coming, but only thee: Save us from arrogancy and pride, and from vain presumption; for not every man that . . . → Read More: A Collect for the Rapture

Sermon for June 5th The Sunday after The Ascension

Here is the sermon for the Sunday after The Ascension: Ascension, 2011

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is the newsletter for June 7th: St. Stephen’s News XXII 22

The Sunday after Ascension Day

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 liveth . . . → Read More: The Sunday after Ascension Day

New Additions to the Library

The latest addition to our Library is a Rite for the Consecration of Holy Oils, specifically the Oil for the Sick, the Oil for the Catechumens, and the Balsam and Oil for the Chrism. There isn’t a standard rite for any Anglican jurisdiction, and so we offer the form used at St Stephen’s. The . . . → Read More: New Additions to the Library

The Remarkable Story of St Stephen’s Altar

St Stephen’s is blessed with a truly fine altar, an example of the best of 19th-century woodworking. Read about it’s origins in a shipbuilders’ church in Sparrows Point, and how it came to St Stephen’s through the efforts of one of our founding members, in the latest monograph to be added to our Library.

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The Ascension Day

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 ascend, and with him continually dwell, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. . . . → Read More: The Ascension Day

Ascension Eve

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 true . . . → Read More: Ascension Eve