ONLINE PARISH NOTES
SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2015
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| Eustache Le Sueur (1615-1655), The Healing of Bartimaeus |
FROM THE RECTOR
This Sunday (October 25) the Fall Brunch will follow the 10 am Solemn High Mass: an opportunity for food and fellowship as well as kicking off our Stewardship program for 2016. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by calling Cory at 401-421-6702, ext. 1, or email office@sstephens.necoxmail.com. All are welcome. -- Fr. John D. Alexander
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Proper 25, Year B (RCL)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Saint
Simon and Saint Jude (October 28) – a major Holy Day of the Church year, will be kept
this Wednesday with Evening Prayer at 5:30 pm and Low Mass at 6.
Daylight
Saving Time – ends
next Sunday, November 1 at 2:00 am. Remember to set your clocks back one hour.
All
Souls Day – Requiem for the
Commemoration of all Faithful Departed will be Monday 2 November at 6 pm,
preceded by Evening Prayer in the Lady Chapel at 5:30 pm. If you would like the
names of departed loved ones read at the Mass, please legibly fill out the form
included in today’s Kalendar, and either give it to an usher or slip it through
the office door mail slot before you leave. The deadline for submissions is
Thursday, October 29th.
Steve’s Poetry Slam – On
Sunday 1 November at 3 pm, all are invited to attend the second meeting of
Steve’s Poetry Slam. All parishioners are welcome. Please bring two poems, one
to read and discuss and a second in reserve. If you have questions, please see
Tom Oakes.
Lecture-Recital – On Sunday 8 November at 4 pm,
in conjunction with the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists, we will host a lecture-recital entitled “The Improvisations of Gerre
Hancock”, featuring Peter Stoltzfus Berton, organist/choirmaster at St. John
the Evangelist in Newport, and former assistant to Hancock. This event is free.
All are welcome.
Goodwill
Industries – There is a clothing
collection box in the Great Hall for the next few weeks on behalf of Goodwill
Industries. One of their objectives is helping people in need to find
employment, and to that end, they are accepting donations of clothing suitable
for job interviews. If you have anything at home you can spare, please bring
it.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been
requested for: Nicholas,
Patricia, Nancy, Townsend, Norman, Elva, Ethel, Andrea, Michael, Mark, Sue,
Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Deborah, Peter, Harrington, Kate, Davaughn,
Bernice, Ellen-Jean, Richard, Maureen, Sandy, Donald, Stephen, Angela, Bobby,
Sally, Rhoda, Ned, Charles, Frederick, Henry, James, and Dianne.
The faithful
departed: Year’s mind: Clifton Milner Fidler (28 October
1983), and Heather A. Morgan (31 October 1997). Recently Departed:
William Joyce.
Anglican and Diocesan
Cycles of Prayer
– In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the Dioceses of Tohoku
(Japan): The Rt. Rev’d John Hiromichi Kato; and Tokyo (Japan): The Rt. Rev’d
Andrew Yoshimichi Ohata; and in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for fair and just elections in the United States and for
those who serve in elected positions in our government.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes - MC R Armidon SD D Latimer; Thurifer R
Noble; Crucifer J Rice; Torches Z Painter, V Johnson
Lector – M Johnson
Ushers – E Drew, T Oakes
Coffee Hour – S Newby, R Widmer
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 25 October
Fall Brunch 11:45 am
Sunday 1 November
Steve’s
Poetry Slam 3 pm
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS
HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Wednesday 28 October
Shakespeare
Society 7:30 pm
Saturday 31 October
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2
pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR &
SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday 18 October
TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY
AFTER PENTECOST (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer with EMBR
5:30 pm
Daily Office & Mass Lectionary: Proper 25, Year 1
Monday 26 October
Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 (W)
Cedd, Abbot, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Tuesday 27 October
Feria
(G)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Wednesday 28 October
SAINT SIMON AND SAINT
JUDE (R)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 29 October
James Hannington,
Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs, 1885 (R)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:30 am
Friday 30 October
Feria
(G)
Angelus 12 Noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 24 October
Feria
(G)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am
Sunday 1 November
ALL SAINTS DAY (W)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer with EMBR
5:30 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS
(November 1)
All Saints Day, Year B -
(Revised Common Lectionary)
