ONLINE PARISH NOTES
Sunday 24 January 2016
Sunday 24 January 2016
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| Christ Reads in the Synagogue, Caldarusani Monastery, Romania |
FROM THE RECTOR
-- Fr. John D. Alexander
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
Nehemiah 8: 1-3, 5-6, 8-10
Psalm 19
1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a
Luke 4:14-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle (January 25) – a major feast of the Church year, will be kept on Monday with Evening Prayer at 5:30 pm, followed by Low Mass at 6 pm.
Nominations Committee – The slate of nominees for election at the Annual Parish Meeting on January 24, 2016 is as follows: three vestry members for four-year terms (expire Annual Meeting of 2020): Patricia Barnes, Bruce Lennihan, and Frank Pisaturo; one vestry member for a two-year term (expires Annual Meeting of 2018): Danielle Latimer; two Diocesan Convention Delegates (one-year term): Richard Noble and Frank Pisaturo; two Diocesan Convention Alternates (one-year term): Cathy Bledsoe and Modu Johnson; Junior Warden (three-year term): Susan Brazil; Clerk of the Vestry (one-year term): Phoebe Pettingell; and Treasurer (one-year term): Ransom Widmer.
Episcopal Ministry at Brown & RISD (EMBR) – Sunday evening prayer with EMBR resumes next Sunday evening (January 31) at 5:30 pm.
Solemn Mass & Procession for Candlemas – On Tuesday 2 February at 6 pm we will celebrate the feast of The Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple (also known as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Candlemas), with Solemn Mass and Procession. This will be a joint celebration with Saint John’s, Newport; Fr. Nathan Humphrey will be the preacher. Please mark this important occasion on your calendars and plan on attending.
Lent is Coming – and that means that our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Ash Wednesday are not far off. Our annual pancake supper will be on Tuesday 9 February from 5:30 – 7 pm. Ash Wednesday services on February 10: Morning Prayer & Blessing of the Ashes at 8 am, with Sung Mass at 6 pm.
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, Nicholas, Robert, Patricia, Nancy, Townsend, Norman, Elva, Ethel, Andrea, Michael, Mark, Sue, Michael, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Deborah, Peter, Harrington, Kate, Davaughn, Bernice, Rob, Ellen-Jean, Robert, Richard, Maureen, Sandy, Stephen, Michael, Thom, Angela, Bobby, Laura, Sally, Rhoda, Ned, Charles, Frederick, Henry, James, and Dianne.
Nominations Committee – The slate of nominees for election at the Annual Parish Meeting on January 24, 2016 is as follows: three vestry members for four-year terms (expire Annual Meeting of 2020): Patricia Barnes, Bruce Lennihan, and Frank Pisaturo; one vestry member for a two-year term (expires Annual Meeting of 2018): Danielle Latimer; two Diocesan Convention Delegates (one-year term): Richard Noble and Frank Pisaturo; two Diocesan Convention Alternates (one-year term): Cathy Bledsoe and Modu Johnson; Junior Warden (three-year term): Susan Brazil; Clerk of the Vestry (one-year term): Phoebe Pettingell; and Treasurer (one-year term): Ransom Widmer.
Episcopal Ministry at Brown & RISD (EMBR) – Sunday evening prayer with EMBR resumes next Sunday evening (January 31) at 5:30 pm.
Solemn Mass & Procession for Candlemas – On Tuesday 2 February at 6 pm we will celebrate the feast of The Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple (also known as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Candlemas), with Solemn Mass and Procession. This will be a joint celebration with Saint John’s, Newport; Fr. Nathan Humphrey will be the preacher. Please mark this important occasion on your calendars and plan on attending.
Lent is Coming – and that means that our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Ash Wednesday are not far off. Our annual pancake supper will be on Tuesday 9 February from 5:30 – 7 pm. Ash Wednesday services on February 10: Morning Prayer & Blessing of the Ashes at 8 am, with Sung Mass at 6 pm.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, Nicholas, Robert, Patricia, Nancy, Townsend, Norman, Elva, Ethel, Andrea, Michael, Mark, Sue, Michael, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Deborah, Peter, Harrington, Kate, Davaughn, Bernice, Rob, Ellen-Jean, Robert, Richard, Maureen, Sandy, Stephen, Michael, Thom, Angela, Bobby, Laura, Sally, Rhoda, Ned, Charles, Frederick, Henry, James, and Dianne.
Birthdays this week – Thomas Bledsoe (January 30).
The faithful departed: Year’s mind: Claire B. Bentley (25 January 1984), L’Marie Blunt (25 January 1994), Sterling C. Poitier (28 January 1996), Florence Matilda Colvin (30 January 1994), Anna Waterman Jackson McCoy (30 January 1985), and Ronald Parks Conner, Priest (30 January 2011).
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil: The Most Rev’d Francisco De Assis Da Silva, Primate of Brazil & Bishop of South-Western Brazil; and in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the leadership and people of St. Paul’s, North Kingstown; St. Paul’s, Pawtucket; and St. Paul’s, Portsmouth.
Acolytes - MC W Dilworth; SD R Noble; Thurifer R Armidon; Crucifer D Latimer; Torches K Rejto, L Rejto
Lector – T Oakes
Ushers – R Viti, J Chamberlain
Coffee Hour – 178th Annual Meeting
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 24 January
178th Annual Meeting (following the 10 am Mass)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Saturday 30 January
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2 pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday 24 January
THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Daily Office & Mass Lectionary for Epiphany III, Year Two
Monday 25 January
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE (W)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Tuesday 26 January
Timothy and Titus [and Silas], Companions of Saint Paul (R)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Wednesday 27 January
Feria (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 28 January
Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor, 1274 (W)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Friday 29 January
Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer, 1430 (W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 30 January
Charles, King and Martyr, 1649 (R)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am
Sunday 31 January
THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer with EMBR* 5:30 pm
*EMBR=Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (January 31)
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm 71: 1-6
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Luke 4:21-30
The faithful departed: Year’s mind: Claire B. Bentley (25 January 1984), L’Marie Blunt (25 January 1994), Sterling C. Poitier (28 January 1996), Florence Matilda Colvin (30 January 1994), Anna Waterman Jackson McCoy (30 January 1985), and Ronald Parks Conner, Priest (30 January 2011).
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil: The Most Rev’d Francisco De Assis Da Silva, Primate of Brazil & Bishop of South-Western Brazil; and in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the leadership and people of St. Paul’s, North Kingstown; St. Paul’s, Pawtucket; and St. Paul’s, Portsmouth.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes - MC W Dilworth; SD R Noble; Thurifer R Armidon; Crucifer D Latimer; Torches K Rejto, L Rejto
Lector – T Oakes
Ushers – R Viti, J Chamberlain
Coffee Hour – 178th Annual Meeting
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 24 January
178th Annual Meeting (following the 10 am Mass)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Saturday 30 January
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2 pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday 24 January
THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Daily Office & Mass Lectionary for Epiphany III, Year Two
Monday 25 January
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE (W)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Tuesday 26 January
Timothy and Titus [and Silas], Companions of Saint Paul (R)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Wednesday 27 January
Feria (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 28 January
Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor, 1274 (W)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Friday 29 January
Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer, 1430 (W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 30 January
Charles, King and Martyr, 1649 (R)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am
Sunday 31 January
THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer with EMBR* 5:30 pm
*EMBR=Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (January 31)
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm 71: 1-6
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Luke 4:21-30
