PARISH NOTES
Sunday 5 February 2017
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| Holman Hunt, Light of the World (Manchester Version), 1851-1856 |
FROM THE RECTOR
"You are the salt of the earth ... You are the light of the world." In the section of Sermon on the Mount included in this Sunday's Gospel, our Lord speaks these words to remind his disciples of their high calling. How might God be calling us as the Church to be salt and light today?
-- Fr. John D. Alexander
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Epiphany 5, Year A
THIS SUNDAY'S MUSIC
(at the 10 am Mass)
Messe pour le Port Royal -- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Oratio Patris Condren: O Jesu Vivens in Maria -- Ned Rorem
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Monthly Requiem – for the departed of this parish whose year’s mind falls during February will be offered tomorrow, Monday 6 February 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 or Fr. Yost.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – Our annual pancake supper will be Tuesday 28 February from 5:30 – 7 pm in our Great Hall. Tickets are available at the door. Please let us know if you plan to attend by calling the parish office at 401-421-6702, ext. 1 or via email. All are welcome. Come enjoy a final culinary indulgence before Lent, and join in the burning of last year’s palms to make new ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday Services (March 1) – Morning Prayer & Blessing of the Ashes will be celebrated at 8 am in the Lady Chapel. (You may receive ashes at this service.) Sung Mass will be celebrated with the Imposition of Ashes at 6 pm in the main church.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been requested for: Avis, Virginia, Martha, Donald, Townsend, Norman, John, Shannah, Peter, Sister Carolyn, Michael, Richard, Mark, Michael, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Stephanie, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, John, Ed, Virginia, Shane, Jan, Richard, Jerry, Joel, Sandra, Emily, Beverly, Yolanda, Angela, Bobby, Katherine, Sally, Carlos, Loretto, Rhoda, Ned, Michael, James, Michael, Peter, and Weldon.
Birthdays this week: Sharon Lloyd Clark (9 February) and Christopher Butler (10 February).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Mary L. Starks (5 February 1999), Paul David Ross (6 February 1996), Mildred Dunlop (8 February 1987), Madeline Nason (9 February 1985), and Madeline Thatcher Howes (10 February 1986). Recently Departed: Kathleen Anderson, Robert J. C. Brown, Priest, Kenneth Okkers, Priest, and Deacon Timothy Rice.
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the Church of Lomega (Loryko, Sudan): The Rt. Rev’d Paul Yugusuk; and in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, please pray for our seminaries and our schools for deacons as they prepare our postulants and candidates for Holy Orders.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes – MC W Dilworth; SD Z Painter; Thurifer R Noble; Crucifer D Malo; Torches L Rejto, E Benziger
Lector – M Johnson
Ushers – S Newby, S Brazil
Coffee Hour – Society of Mary
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Saturday 11 February
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday 5 February
THE FIFTH 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
Daily Office & Mass Lectionary for the Week of Epiphany 5 (Year One)
Monday 6 February
The Martyrs of Japan, 1597 (R)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Requiem Mass 6 pm (Black)
Tuesday 7 February
Cornelius the Centurion, 1st century 1888 (G or W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday 8 February
Jerome Emiliani, Priest, Founder of the Somaschi Fathers, 1537 (G or W)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 9 February
Feria (G)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Friday 10 February
Scholastica, Abbess, c. 543 (G or W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 11 February
Our Lady of Lourdes (G or Blue)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am
Sunday 12 February
THE SIXTH 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 (12 February)
Epiphany 6, Year A
