PARISH NOTES

Sunday 30 April 2017

Christ on the Road to Emmaus
Miniature Manuscript Illumination, Vita Christi, Florence, ca. 1320
The Morgan Library, New York

FROM THE RECTOR

This Sunday's Gospel of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus offers a paradigm of the Christian experience of the Risen Christ in the Holy Eucharist. The mysterious stranger accompanies the disciples on the road, explaining the Scriptures. Then his identity is revealed to them in the Breaking of the Bread. At Mass every Sunday and weekday we follow a parallel journey: exploring how the Scriptures illuminate God's saving action in Christ, and then meeting the Risen Christ himself in the Blessed Sacrament. For this we gather, Sunday by Sunday: a gift so great we only cheat ourselves by staying away. -- Fr. John D. Alexander

THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS

Third Sunday of Easter, Year A
Acts 2:14a,36-41
Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17
1 Peter 1:17-23
Luke 24:13-35

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Society of Mary Annual Mass and Meeting – will take place at All Saints’ Church, Ashmont (Boston), this Saturday 6 May at 11 a.m. The preacher is Fr. F. Washington (Tony) Jarvis. Suggested donation for lunch is $10. For more details, please visit the Society of Mary American Region website at www.somamerica.org. (If anyone is interested in carpooling from S. Stephen’s, please contact Fr. Alexander or Phoebe Pettingell. We will be leaving at approximately 9:30 a.m.)

Commemoration of May Departed – Those on the parish Year’s Mind list whose anniversaries fall during May will be prayed for at the Mass tomorrow evening, Monday 1 May at 6 pm. If you have names of departed family or friends to be remembered, please send them to Fr. Alexander at rector@sstephens.necoxmail.com and come join us if you can.

Dwyer Organ Recital – Next Sunday 7 May at 5:30 pm, Mark Dwyer, Organist & Choirmaster of Church of the Advent in Boston, will perform an organ recital featuring works of J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel, Dietrich Buxtehude, George Thalben-Ball, César Franck, and C. Villiers Stanford. A reception follows in our Great Hall. Please join us for this special musical event. All are welcome.

Confirmations at St. John’s, Newport – We are pleased to announce that Bishop Knisely will be present at our two parishes’ joint celebration of the Feast of the Visitation (6:30 p.m. on Wednesday 31 May) and will be available to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation and/or receive members of other Communions into the Episcopal Church. If you would like to be confirmed or received at this service, please let Fr. Alexander or Fr. Yost know right away so that we can make the necessary preparations.

FOR YOUR PRAYERS

Prayers have been requested for: Townsend, Norman, John, Shannah, Carolyn, Peter, Mark, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Gus, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, Katherine, Sally, John, Ed, Virginia, Kirsten, Beverly, Deborah, Yolanda, Angela, Bobby, Carlos, Rhoda, Ned, William, and James.

Birthdays this week: Robyn Geogan Noble (3 May).

The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Jane Ann Stiles (30 April 1956), Charles N. Williams, Sr. (3 May 1999), John Herbert Allen (5 May 1991), Robert Hale Ives Goddard (6 May 2003), and Edna Rawlings (6 May 2014); Recently Departed: the Rev’d Charles Thayer.

Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, please pray for the Church of Nandyal (South India): The Rt. Rev’d Eggoni Pushpalalitha; and in the Diocesan Cycle of prayer, please pray for the leadership and people of Church Beyond the Walls.

THE SUNDAY ROTA

Acolytes – MC Z Painter SD R Noble; Thurifer L Hooks; Crucifer D Malo; Torches C Sylvia, G Benziger
Lector – J Steiny
Ushers – T Oakes, K Benziger
Coffee Hour – Society of Mary

THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S

PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS

Sunday 7 May
Dwyer Organ Recital 5:30 pm

EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S

Wednesday 3 May
Food Bank Community Forum 12 - 2 pm

Saturday 6 May
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm

LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE

30 April
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER (W)
Morning Prayer 7:30 am
Low Mass 8 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer with EMBR* 5:30 pm

Daily Office Lectionary: Easter III, Year One

Daily Mass Lectionary: Easter III

1 May
SAINT PHILIP AND SAINT JAMES, APOSTLES (R)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass (with Commemoration of May Departed) 6 pm

2 May
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 (W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm

3 May
Wednesday in Easter III (W)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm

4 May
Thursday in Easter III (W)
English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm

5 May
Friday in Easter III (W)
Angelus 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm

6 May
Saturday in Easter III (W)
Morning Prayer 9 am
Low Mass 9:30 am

7 May
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (W)
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 (7 May)

Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A
Acts 2:42-47
Psalm 23
1 Peter 2:19-25
John 10:1-10

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