PARISH NOTES
Sunday 17 February 2019
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Sermon on the Mount, oil on copper, 1598. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. |
FROM THE RECTOR
On Sunday in the Presidents Day Weekend – more correctly, the “George Washington’s Birthday Holiday Weekend – we offer a simpler 10 am service with a congregational Mass setting. The Gospel – taken from Saint Luke’s “Sermon on the Plain” – contains four Blessings and four Woes. Who are the blessed and who are the cursed in God’s eyes? Join us as we explore this question and try to understand what we can do about it! – Fr. John D. Alexander
Jeremiah 17:5-10
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Luke 6:17-26
Healey Willan (1880 – 1968)—Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
Welcome to S. Stephen’s – especially to our visitors and guests! We’re glad to have you with us. Please join us for Coffee Hour following the 10 a.m. Mass in the Great Hall upstairs. If you have any questions or special needs, please speak to one of the ushers, who will be glad to assist you.
George Washington’s Birthday (February 16) – will be observed on February 18. As on all public holidays, Low Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at 10 am, preceded by Morning Prayer at 9:30 am.
College Ministry – The Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD (EMBR) welcomes all students, both undergraduate and graduate, to join us in fellowship this semester. EMBR meets every Sunday at 5:30 pm for Evening Prayer, followed by a meal. All are most welcome and invited!
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – will be Tuesday 5 March from 5:30 – 7 pm in our Great Hall. Pancakes are all you can eat. Tickets are available for $5 at the door or at Coffee Hour. All proceeds support our Sunday School Ministry. Come enjoy a final culinary indulgence before Lent, and bring your palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burnt to make new ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday – Solemn Mass with the Imposition of Ashes will be offered at 7 pm on Wednesday 6 March. The music will include Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus; and Thomas Tallis’s In ieiunio et fletu. Ashes will also be available at the following services: Morning Prayer and Blessing of Ashes, 9 am; Noonday Prayer, 12 pm; Evening Prayer, 5:30 pm. Make a good start to Lent by observing this principal fasting day of the Church year.
Sunday Evening Series – will take place on the five Sundays in Lent, beginning March 10th, with supper at 6 pm, program starting at approximately 7 pm, and concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 pm. This year’s speaker is the Rev. Canon Jeremy Matthew Haselock, from London, who will lead a lecture-and-discussion series entitled “The Sacrament of Easter: An Introduction to the Liturgy of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.” All are cordially invited to attend all or any part of the evening.
Please Sign Up – to help with the Sunday Evening Lenten Series! (See preceding announcement.) We urgently need lots of volunteers to bring food and drink items and help set up and clean up. Sign-up sheets are available in the Narthex and Great Hall. Please do what you can to help!
Ecumenical Stations – This year, the Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD (EMBR) is teaming up with the Brown-RISD Catholic Community (BRCC) to offer Stations of the Cross at S. Stephen’s at 6 pm on Fridays in Lent, beginning March 8th. All are welcome and heartily invited! Please consider making this one of your Lenten devotions this year.
Sorrowful Mysteries – Another opportunity for regular Lenten devotions will be recitation of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary on Saturday mornings, beginning March 9th. All welcome; no prior experience needed!
Blue Heron Concert – On Sunday 10 March at 4 pm, Blue Heron, Boston’s premier Renaissance choir, continues its Ockeghem series with one of his most celebrated works, the astoundingly complex yet captivatingly beautiful Missa Prolationum, constructed (like Bach’s Goldberg Variations) as a series of canons at different intervals—but Ockeghem’s are double canons, in which four sung parts are generated from two written ones. A truly mind-expanding musical experience, here at S. Stephen’s Church! For ticket pricing and more information, click here.
Spring Organ Recital – On Friday 22 March at 7:30 pm, please join us for an organ recital with International Concert Organist Katelyn Emerson. This event is co-sponsored by the RI American Guild of Organists (RIAGO) and S. Stephen’s Church.
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Richard, Norman, John, James, Shannah, Terri, Lynne, Fred-Munro, William, Gus, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, Sandy, John, Phebe, Jack, Richard, Ann, Colin, Sandy, Kiersten, Beverly, Deborah, Bryan, Angela, Bobby, Beverly, Allora, Carlos, Rhoda, William, Roger, and James.
Birthdays this week: Lucas Bledsoe (Sunday 2/17) and Tristan Kinloch (Wednesday 2/20).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Gary Lee Stamps (17 February 1991), James W. Randolph (17 February 1985), John Walker (18 February 2008), Frederick A. Starks, Sr. (19 February 1985), and Dorothy Belden (23 February 1997). Recently Departed: Sr. Carolyn Darr, SSM.
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Church of the Province of Central Africa: The Most Rev’d Albert Chama, Archbishop of Central Africa & Bishop of Northern Zambia; in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, for the Commission on Ministry and members of our diocese who walk with those discerning the ministries to which God calls them.
Acolytes – MC F Pisaturo, SD J Ihnen, Thurifer J Starks, Torches L Verdelotti and D Malo
Lector at 10 am – T Oakes
Ushers – Rhoda Steinhart and Chris Martel
Coffee Hour – Tom and Cathy Bledsoe
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 17 February
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm (Lady Chapel)
Rector’s Online Book Group 8-9 pm (Videoconference)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Friday 22 February
RUF Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 23 February
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
17 February
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Sung Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Daily Mass and Office Lectionaries: Epiphany VI, Year One
Monday 18 February
Simeon of Jerusalem, 1st century (W)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
Tuesday 19 February
FERIA (G)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday 20 February
FERIA (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 21 February
John Henry Newman, Priest, Theologian, 1890 (W)
Peter Damian, Monk, Bishop, Teacher, 1072 (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Friday 22 February
The See of Peter the Apostle (Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch) (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 23 February
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c. 155 (R)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
24 February
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (24 February)
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Psalm 37:1-12,41-42
Genesis 45:3-11, 15
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Luke 6:27-38
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Psalm 1Jeremiah 17:5-10
1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Luke 6:17-26
THIS SUNDAY’S MUSIC
Healey Willan (1880 – 1968)—Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Welcome to S. Stephen’s – especially to our visitors and guests! We’re glad to have you with us. Please join us for Coffee Hour following the 10 a.m. Mass in the Great Hall upstairs. If you have any questions or special needs, please speak to one of the ushers, who will be glad to assist you.
George Washington’s Birthday (February 16) – will be observed on February 18. As on all public holidays, Low Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at 10 am, preceded by Morning Prayer at 9:30 am.
College Ministry – The Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD (EMBR) welcomes all students, both undergraduate and graduate, to join us in fellowship this semester. EMBR meets every Sunday at 5:30 pm for Evening Prayer, followed by a meal. All are most welcome and invited!
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – will be Tuesday 5 March from 5:30 – 7 pm in our Great Hall. Pancakes are all you can eat. Tickets are available for $5 at the door or at Coffee Hour. All proceeds support our Sunday School Ministry. Come enjoy a final culinary indulgence before Lent, and bring your palms from last year’s Palm Sunday to be burnt to make new ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday – Solemn Mass with the Imposition of Ashes will be offered at 7 pm on Wednesday 6 March. The music will include Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus; and Thomas Tallis’s In ieiunio et fletu. Ashes will also be available at the following services: Morning Prayer and Blessing of Ashes, 9 am; Noonday Prayer, 12 pm; Evening Prayer, 5:30 pm. Make a good start to Lent by observing this principal fasting day of the Church year.
Sunday Evening Series – will take place on the five Sundays in Lent, beginning March 10th, with supper at 6 pm, program starting at approximately 7 pm, and concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 pm. This year’s speaker is the Rev. Canon Jeremy Matthew Haselock, from London, who will lead a lecture-and-discussion series entitled “The Sacrament of Easter: An Introduction to the Liturgy of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.” All are cordially invited to attend all or any part of the evening.
Please Sign Up – to help with the Sunday Evening Lenten Series! (See preceding announcement.) We urgently need lots of volunteers to bring food and drink items and help set up and clean up. Sign-up sheets are available in the Narthex and Great Hall. Please do what you can to help!
Ecumenical Stations – This year, the Episcopal Ministry at Brown and RISD (EMBR) is teaming up with the Brown-RISD Catholic Community (BRCC) to offer Stations of the Cross at S. Stephen’s at 6 pm on Fridays in Lent, beginning March 8th. All are welcome and heartily invited! Please consider making this one of your Lenten devotions this year.
Sorrowful Mysteries – Another opportunity for regular Lenten devotions will be recitation of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary on Saturday mornings, beginning March 9th. All welcome; no prior experience needed!
Blue Heron Concert – On Sunday 10 March at 4 pm, Blue Heron, Boston’s premier Renaissance choir, continues its Ockeghem series with one of his most celebrated works, the astoundingly complex yet captivatingly beautiful Missa Prolationum, constructed (like Bach’s Goldberg Variations) as a series of canons at different intervals—but Ockeghem’s are double canons, in which four sung parts are generated from two written ones. A truly mind-expanding musical experience, here at S. Stephen’s Church! For ticket pricing and more information, click here.
Spring Organ Recital – On Friday 22 March at 7:30 pm, please join us for an organ recital with International Concert Organist Katelyn Emerson. This event is co-sponsored by the RI American Guild of Organists (RIAGO) and S. Stephen’s Church.
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Richard, Norman, John, James, Shannah, Terri, Lynne, Fred-Munro, William, Gus, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, Sandy, John, Phebe, Jack, Richard, Ann, Colin, Sandy, Kiersten, Beverly, Deborah, Bryan, Angela, Bobby, Beverly, Allora, Carlos, Rhoda, William, Roger, and James.
Birthdays this week: Lucas Bledsoe (Sunday 2/17) and Tristan Kinloch (Wednesday 2/20).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Gary Lee Stamps (17 February 1991), James W. Randolph (17 February 1985), John Walker (18 February 2008), Frederick A. Starks, Sr. (19 February 1985), and Dorothy Belden (23 February 1997). Recently Departed: Sr. Carolyn Darr, SSM.
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Church of the Province of Central Africa: The Most Rev’d Albert Chama, Archbishop of Central Africa & Bishop of Northern Zambia; in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, for the Commission on Ministry and members of our diocese who walk with those discerning the ministries to which God calls them.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes – MC F Pisaturo, SD J Ihnen, Thurifer J Starks, Torches L Verdelotti and D Malo
Lector at 10 am – T Oakes
Ushers – Rhoda Steinhart and Chris Martel
Coffee Hour – Tom and Cathy Bledsoe
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 17 February
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm (Lady Chapel)
Rector’s Online Book Group 8-9 pm (Videoconference)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Friday 22 February
RUF Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 23 February
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
17 February
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Sung Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Daily Mass and Office Lectionaries: Epiphany VI, Year One
Monday 18 February
Simeon of Jerusalem, 1st century (W)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
Tuesday 19 February
FERIA (G)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday 20 February
FERIA (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Thursday 21 February
John Henry Newman, Priest, Theologian, 1890 (W)
Peter Damian, Monk, Bishop, Teacher, 1072 (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Friday 22 February
The See of Peter the Apostle (Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch) (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Saturday 23 February
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c. 155 (R)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
24 February
THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (G)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (24 February)
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Psalm 37:1-12,41-42
Genesis 45:3-11, 15
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Luke 6:27-38
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