This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s Newsletter : St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 9

The Sermon for Sunday March 3rd – St David & Lent III

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

Come to the Parish Life Committee Meeting on March 12th

It’s hard to believe but the Garden Party is fast upon us. In fact, the “big event” is a mere eight weeks after this next meeting. It’s time to kick the planning into high gear.

Already booked are the pipe band and Camerata Musica, and this year we will once again have the Maypole dance . . . → Read More: Come to the Parish Life Committee Meeting on March 12th

There’s a whiff of change in the air

It’s been said that the only thing constant in this world is change. The truth of that adage certainly isn’t obvious in the Anglican Church.

In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Consider that our hymnal was published over 70 years ago, and the edition of the Book of Common Prayer that forms the heart . . . → Read More: There’s a whiff of change in the air

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 8

Sacked and pillaged by the dreaded Ninja mice

Thanks to the cold weather, the rectory has again been inundated with a plague of mice of dimensions unmatched since Moses was slugging it out with Pharaoh. The miserable little critters get into everything. Flour, rice, cookies, chips, bread, potatoes—you name it, they’ll eat it.

As the weeks have passed, they have become bolder and . . . → Read More: Sacked and pillaged by the dreaded Ninja mice

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 7

An appeal for At Jacob’s Well

The first Sunday of each month is set aside as a time to remember the needs of the men and women served by At Jacob’s Well, an organization that has been housing Baltimore’s homeless mentally ill for over 25 years. Unfortunately the amount collected at our monthly in-giving has dwindled somewhat of late.

. . . → Read More: An appeal for At Jacob’s Well

The folks who slyly and subtly distort history

THE philosopher George Santayana famously observed: “Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” They are words so wise they should be tattooed on the forehead of every aspiring politician.

And it would certainly do no harm to tattoo them on the foreheads of every journalist, opinion maker, and movie . . . → Read More: The folks who slyly and subtly distort history

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 6