SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2014
FROM THE RECTOR
During the "Green Season" (also known as "Ordinary Time") of Sundays after Pentecost, the Prayer Book gives us permission to celebrate Saints Days when they fall on a Sunday. (During other liturgical seasons such as Lent and Eastertide, Saints Days falling on a Sunday are transferred to the first available weekday.) This Sunday, August 24, is the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, so we shall be commemorating him at the 10 am Mass -- wearing red vestments in observance of his martyrdom, and using the readings and prayers appointed for his feast day. (We shall use the normal propers of the Sunday (Proper 16, Year A) at the 8 am Mass.) How does a first-century Apostle such as Bartholomew speak to our world today? That is the question we shall be exploring this Sunday as we keep his feast. Please join us. -- Fr. John D. Alexander
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FROM THE RECTOR
During the "Green Season" (also known as "Ordinary Time") of Sundays after Pentecost, the Prayer Book gives us permission to celebrate Saints Days when they fall on a Sunday. (During other liturgical seasons such as Lent and Eastertide, Saints Days falling on a Sunday are transferred to the first available weekday.) This Sunday, August 24, is the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, so we shall be commemorating him at the 10 am Mass -- wearing red vestments in observance of his martyrdom, and using the readings and prayers appointed for his feast day. (We shall use the normal propers of the Sunday (Proper 16, Year A) at the 8 am Mass.) How does a first-century Apostle such as Bartholomew speak to our world today? That is the question we shall be exploring this Sunday as we keep his feast. Please join us. -- Fr. John D. Alexander
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Proper 16, Year A – 8 am Low Mass
Isaiah 5:1-6; Psalm 138; Romans 12:1-8;
Matthew 16:13-20
Saint Bartholomew the Apostle – 10 am Sung
Mass
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Guest Organist – Today we welcome to the organ Jeffrey Mills, who joins us again this morning.
Change in Weekday
Mass Schedule – Please note that after
Labor Day, the Monday service schedule will be changed to: Evening Prayer
at 5:30 pm, Low Mass at 6 pm. All other weekday services will remain at the
same times.
Flower
Memorial Opportunities – If you would like to order flowers for the High
Altar or the
statue of our Lady in memory of a loved one or in thanksgiving for blessings
received, the cost per vase for the High Altar is $80 (both
vases $160), and $65 for a vase at the Statue of our Lady. Please send a check to the
parish office for the amount, and let Cory MacLean know the intentions for
which the flowers are offered.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been requested
for:
Nicholas, Nancy, Will, Townsend, Norman, David, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Harrington, Davaughn, Hugh, Beverly, Angela, Rhoda, Henry, Thomas, James, Richard, Lynnd, Kathleen, and Richard.
The faithful
departed: Year’s mind: Thomas
Edward Goode (24 August 1991), Florence Thorpe (24 August 1994), Sheila Kathleen Beresford (26 August
1986), and Eleanor
Fayerweather (30 August 1992).
Birthdays
this week:
Florence Ferreira & Patricia Barnes (August 26th), Suzanne Flatley (August 28), Simon Newby (August 29)
Anglican and Diocesan
Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for The Anglican Church of Southern
Africa: The Most Rev’d Dr. Thabo Makgoba,
Archbishop of Capetown and Primate of Southern Africa; and in
the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for clergy widows of the Diocese:
Bernice Belt, Bambi Bolles, Linda Lemons, Courtney Malone, and Marilyn Sayles.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes -- MC R Armidon; SD R Rose: Thurifer
D Latimer; Crucifer D Callanan; Torches L Rejto, C Sylvia
Lector – J Steiny
Ushers – S Brazil, T Bledsoe
Coffee Hour – Huff/Callanan Family
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS &
MEETINGS
Saturday 30 August
Coffee
Hour Volunteer Brunch 10 am
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2 pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE
SCHEDULE
Sunday 24 August
Morning
Prayer 7:30 am
Low
Mass 8 am --
Sung
Mass 10 am --
Weekday Office and Mass
Lectionary: Proper 16, Year Two
Monday 25 August Louis, King of France, 1270 (W)
Angelus 12
noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Tuesday 26 August Dominic Barberi, Priest, Religious, Missionary, 1849 (W)
Morning
Prayer 8 am
Low
Mass 8:30 am
Wednesday
27 August
Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 (W)
Evening Prayer 5:30
pm
Low
Mass 6 pm
Thursday
28 August Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 (W)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Friday 29 August Beheading of John the Baptist (R)
Angelus 12
noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 30 August Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, 1912 (W)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am
Sunday 31 August TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER
PENTECOST (G)
Morning
Prayer 7:30 am
Low
Mass 8 am
Sung
Mass 10 am
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (August 31)
