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SUNDAY 31
July 2016
THIS
SUNDAY’S READINGS
Proper 13, Year C
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monthly
Requiem –
for the departed of this parish whose year’s mind falls during August will be
offered on Monday 1 August at 6 pm (preceded by Evening Prayer at 5:30 pm.) If
you have any names to add to the list of those remembered, please email Fr.
Alexander of Fr. Yost.
Summer Patronal Festival – On Sunday 7 August,
we will celebrate the feast of the Finding of the Relics of St. Stephen at both
Masses, which commemorates the
finding of the relics of Saint Stephen in the year 415 by the priest Lucian at
a place called Caphar-Gamala near Jerusalem. Churches dedicated to Saint
Stephen sometimes keep this feast as a patronal festival in addition to Saint
Stephen’s Day on December 26th.
Institution of Fr. Nathan
Humphrey as Rector of St. John’s, Newport – will take place on Sunday 14 August at 4 pm.
After several years as a diocesan mission with Fr. Humphrey as Vicar, St.
John’s has recently regained parish status and their Vestry has elected Fr.
Humphrey as Rector. This is an occasion for celebration. Bishop Knisely will
preside at the Institution Mass and the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, III,
former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, will preach. Please
note that this liturgy will also serve as our two parishes’ joint
celebration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August
15th). Parishioners and friends of S. Stephen’s are cordially invited to
attend.
Transfiguration – we will be celebrating the
Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ with a Sung Mass in the Lady
Chapel on Saturday 6 August at 11 am. This is part of our continuing series of
joint celebrations with St. John’s, Newport. The preacher will be Deacon Buck
Close. (Please note the time change from the normal Saturday schedule. Morning
Prayer will be said as usual at 9 am, but Mass is postponed to 11 am.)
FOR
YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers
have been requested for: Elizabeth, Townsend, Norman, John, Peter, Michael,
Michael, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Stephanie, Harrington, Kate, Richard,
Jerry, Joel, Sandra, Yolanda, Angela, Bobby, Sally, Loretto, Rhoda, Ned,
Michael, Henry, James, Weldon, Dianne, and Elizabeth.
Birthdays this week: Nancy Anderson Gingrich (July 31).
The faithful
departed: Year’s Mind: Anillo William
Esposito (31 July 1985), Esther Lahiff-Naylor (1 August 1989), and Theresa
Jarvis (4 August 2011).
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican
Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the Church of the
Province of South East Asia: The Most
Rev’d Bolly Lapok, Archbishop of South East Asia & Bishop of
Kuching;
and in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for our seminaries and for those who are preparing to serve God
as ordained ministers of the Church.
THE
SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes - MC R Armidon; 2nd Chalice R Noble; Thurifer J
Starks; Crucifer Z Painter; Torches L Rejto, DO Latimer
Lector – P Martin
Ushers – N Gingrich, S Brazil
Coffee Hour – A
Huff
THIS
WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL
EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Saturday 13 August
Epiphany Soup
Kitchen 2:30 pm
Blackburn-Loescher
Wedding 5 pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday 31 July
THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (G)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Sung Mass 10 am
Weekday Office and Mass Lectionary:
Proper 13, Year Two
Monday
1 August
Alphonsus Liguori, Teacher, 1787 (G or W)
Evening
Prayer 5:30 pm
Requiem
6 pm
Tuesday
2 August
Feria (G)
Angelus 12 noon
Low
Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday
3 August
FINDING OF THE RELICS OF SAINT STEPHEN, 415 (R)
Nicodemus, 1st century
Evening
Prayer 5:30 pm
Low
Mass 6 pm
Thursday
4 August
Jean-Baptiste
Vianney, Curé d’Ars, Spiritual Guide, 1859 (G or W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low
Mass 12:10 pm
Friday 5 August
Oswald, King of
Northumbria, Martyr, 642 (G or R)
Angelus 12 noon
Low
Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday
6 August
TRANSFIGURATION OF
OUR LORD
(W)
Morning
Prayer 9 am
Sung
Mass 11 am
Sunday 7 August
THE FINDING OF THE RELICS OF SAINT STEPHEN (R)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Sung Mass 10 am
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (August 7)
Finding of the Relics
of St. Stephen
Jeremiah
26:1-9, 12-15
Psalm 31:1-5
Acts
6:8-7:2a, 51c-60, 8:1-2
Matthew
23:34-39
