PARISH NOTES
Sunday 10 March 2019
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| Philips Augustijn Immenraet, Temptation of Christ (1663) Oil on copper. Museum of John Paul II Collection, Warsaw, Poland |
FROM THE RECTOR
The first Sunday of Lent confronts us with the Temptations of Christ in the wilderness and, by extension, the temptations that we all face in our endeavors to live the Christian life. The pattern of diabolical temptation recounted in this Sunday’s Gospel is worth studying for what it can teach us about the forms in which temptations can will come to us today. And our Lord’s responses similarly teach us how to resist temptation: because he has overcome the Tempter, we can do so too, in Him. Join us as we begin the Lenten season exploring this crucial topic. – Fr. John D. Alexander
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
Plainchant—Missa XV (Dominator Deus)
R. Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)—Prayer to the Father of Heaven
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.
Lent 2019 Issue of The S. Stephen – is available online for viewing here. This issue of our parish magazine contains features on Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, and the martyrdom of our patron saint. Read the Rector's Annual Meeting Sermon and Address, and much more. Hard copies have been mailed, and additional copies may be picked up in the Narthex. To be added to our mailing list, please contact the parish office.
Blue Heron Concert – Today, 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.
Monthly Commemoration of the Departed –whose year’s mind falls during March will be offered Saturday 16 March at 10 am (preceded by Morning Prayer at 9:30 am). If you have any names to add to those to be remembered, please let Fr. Alexander know. This Mass is sponsored by the Guild of All Souls, St. Stephen Protomartyr Branch: all are welcome and invited to attend!
Volunteers Needed – S. Stephen’s next turn for supplying the volunteers for the Epiphany Soup Kitchen (ESK) will be Saturday, March 16 from 2:30-5:30 pm. If you can help, please let Bruce Lennihan know. We need at least 5 to 6 volunteers. ESK served 67 people February 23 and 81 the week before. This is a wonderful opportunity to serve Christ by serving the hungry.
Lent Supper and Lecture Series – takes place on the Sundays in Lent, beginning tonight, March 10—a great opportunity for food, fellowship, intellectual stimulation, and spiritual enrichment. Each evening begins with a pot luck supper at 6 pm: all participants are asked to bring a food item to share – such as bread, soup, or salad. (Dishes containing meat are perfectly appropriate, but during Lent we discourage sweets, cakes, cookies, etc., as well as alcoholic beverages.) The program starts at approximately 7 pm, featuring the Rev. Canon Jeremy Matthew Haselock, retired Vice Dean and Canon Precentor of Norwich Cathedral, and a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen. Canon Haselock’s topic will be “The Sacrament of Easter: An Introduction to the Liturgy of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.” Each evening concludes with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 pm in the Lady Chapel. All are cordially invited to attend all or any part of the evening.
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, continuing this Friday, March 15. This is a great opportunity to experience this moving devotion anew or indeed for the first time! (Advance Notice: on Friday 12 April, concluding our series of Lenten Stations of the Cross, we will end with a Fish Fry in the Great Hall. Stay tuned for more details.)
Sorrowful Mysteries – Another opportunity for regular Lenten devotions is recitation of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary on Saturday mornings at 10:30 am (following 10 am Mass and 9:30 am Morning Prayer), continuing March 16. These devotions are sponsored by the Our Lady of Providence Ward of the Society of Mary. All are welcome; no prior experience needed!
Spring Organ Recital – On Friday 22 March at 7:30 pm, we welcome International Concert Organist Katelyn Emerson, who will be offering an organ recital on the Goddard Memorial Organ at S. Stephen’s. This event is co-sponsored by the RI American Guild of Organists (RIAGO) and S. Stephen’s Church.
Lenten Quiet Day – will be on Saturday 23 March with meditations by the Rev. Carlos de la Torre. A Quiet Day is like a mini-retreat without going away. The program begins with Morning Prayer and Mass at 9 am and concludes with tea at 2 pm. In between we have coffee, lunch, and three addresses interspersed with periods of silent reflection and prayer: the perfect opportunity for deepening Lenten devotion and preparing spiritually for Holy Week and Easter. Fr. Carlos de la Torre is Curate at Christ Church, and Director of Saint Hilda's House, New Haven, CT. He will soon be taking up his new call as Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Bellefonte, in central Pennsylvania.
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!
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, George, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Richard, Ethel, Henry, Norman, John, Shannah, Terri, Lynne, Fred-Munro, William, Gus, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, Sandy, John, Phebe, Jack, Richard, Ann, Colin, Sandy, Kiersten, Beverly, Gail, Deborah, Bryan, Angela, Bobby, Beverly, Allora, Carlos, Rhoda, William, Roger, and James.
Birthdays this week: Thomas Oakes (Monday 3/11).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Robert Russell Sandstrom (10 March 2016), Donald S. Chase (11 March 1998), Frank Chace (11 March 1993), George Freemont Bliven (13 March 1983), Elizabeth Grinnell Allen (13 March 1985), Ransom Widmer (13 March 2016), and Eleanor Retallick (13 March 2009). Recently Departed: Florence T. Bustamante, Elias Bustamante, and James Stephen Clarke.
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
First Sunday in Lent (Year C)
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
THIS SUNDAY’S MUSIC
Plainchant—Missa XV (Dominator Deus)
R. Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)—Prayer to the Father of Heaven
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.
Lent 2019 Issue of The S. Stephen – is available online for viewing here. This issue of our parish magazine contains features on Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, and the martyrdom of our patron saint. Read the Rector's Annual Meeting Sermon and Address, and much more. Hard copies have been mailed, and additional copies may be picked up in the Narthex. To be added to our mailing list, please contact the parish office.
Blue Heron Concert – Today, 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.
Monthly Commemoration of the Departed –whose year’s mind falls during March will be offered Saturday 16 March at 10 am (preceded by Morning Prayer at 9:30 am). If you have any names to add to those to be remembered, please let Fr. Alexander know. This Mass is sponsored by the Guild of All Souls, St. Stephen Protomartyr Branch: all are welcome and invited to attend!
Volunteers Needed – S. Stephen’s next turn for supplying the volunteers for the Epiphany Soup Kitchen (ESK) will be Saturday, March 16 from 2:30-5:30 pm. If you can help, please let Bruce Lennihan know. We need at least 5 to 6 volunteers. ESK served 67 people February 23 and 81 the week before. This is a wonderful opportunity to serve Christ by serving the hungry.
Lent Supper and Lecture Series – takes place on the Sundays in Lent, beginning tonight, March 10—a great opportunity for food, fellowship, intellectual stimulation, and spiritual enrichment. Each evening begins with a pot luck supper at 6 pm: all participants are asked to bring a food item to share – such as bread, soup, or salad. (Dishes containing meat are perfectly appropriate, but during Lent we discourage sweets, cakes, cookies, etc., as well as alcoholic beverages.) The program starts at approximately 7 pm, featuring the Rev. Canon Jeremy Matthew Haselock, retired Vice Dean and Canon Precentor of Norwich Cathedral, and a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen. Canon Haselock’s topic will be “The Sacrament of Easter: An Introduction to the Liturgy of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.” Each evening concludes with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 pm in the Lady Chapel. All are cordially invited to attend all or any part of the evening.
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, continuing this Friday, March 15. This is a great opportunity to experience this moving devotion anew or indeed for the first time! (Advance Notice: on Friday 12 April, concluding our series of Lenten Stations of the Cross, we will end with a Fish Fry in the Great Hall. Stay tuned for more details.)
Sorrowful Mysteries – Another opportunity for regular Lenten devotions is recitation of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary on Saturday mornings at 10:30 am (following 10 am Mass and 9:30 am Morning Prayer), continuing March 16. These devotions are sponsored by the Our Lady of Providence Ward of the Society of Mary. All are welcome; no prior experience needed!
Spring Organ Recital – On Friday 22 March at 7:30 pm, we welcome International Concert Organist Katelyn Emerson, who will be offering an organ recital on the Goddard Memorial Organ at S. Stephen’s. This event is co-sponsored by the RI American Guild of Organists (RIAGO) and S. Stephen’s Church.
Lenten Quiet Day – will be on Saturday 23 March with meditations by the Rev. Carlos de la Torre. A Quiet Day is like a mini-retreat without going away. The program begins with Morning Prayer and Mass at 9 am and concludes with tea at 2 pm. In between we have coffee, lunch, and three addresses interspersed with periods of silent reflection and prayer: the perfect opportunity for deepening Lenten devotion and preparing spiritually for Holy Week and Easter. Fr. Carlos de la Torre is Curate at Christ Church, and Director of Saint Hilda's House, New Haven, CT. He will soon be taking up his new call as Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Bellefonte, in central Pennsylvania.
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!
FOR YOUR PRAYERS
Prayers have been requested for: Elizabeth, George, Hannah, Kaitlyn, Mary, Richard, Ethel, Henry, Norman, John, Shannah, Terri, Lynne, Fred-Munro, William, Gus, Leonard, Harrington, Joan, Sandy, John, Phebe, Jack, Richard, Ann, Colin, Sandy, Kiersten, Beverly, Gail, Deborah, Bryan, Angela, Bobby, Beverly, Allora, Carlos, Rhoda, William, Roger, and James.
Birthdays this week: Thomas Oakes (Monday 3/11).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Robert Russell Sandstrom (10 March 2016), Donald S. Chase (11 March 1998), Frank Chace (11 March 1993), George Freemont Bliven (13 March 1983), Elizabeth Grinnell Allen (13 March 1985), Ransom Widmer (13 March 2016), and Eleanor Retallick (13 March 2009). Recently Departed: Florence T. Bustamante, Elias Bustamante, and James Stephen Clarke.
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo: The Most Rev’d Zacharie Masimango Katanda, Archbishop of the Congo & Bishop of Kindu; in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, for Episcopal Charities and the ministries and agencies the fund supports.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes – MC R Noble, SD F Pisaturo, Thurifer L Verdelotti, Torches C Sylvia and G Benziger
Lector – E Alexander
Ushers – Julia Steiny and Louis Verdelotti
Coffee Hour – Modu Johnson
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 10 March
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm (Lady Chapel)
Lenten Supper and Lecture Series 6-8:30 pm (Great Hall/Lady Chapel)
Tuesday 12 March
Vestry Meeting 7 pm (Library)
Saturday 16 March
Guild of All Souls 10 am (Lady Chapel)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Friday 15 March
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 16 March
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
10 March
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT (V)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 8 pm
Daily Office Lectionary: Week of Lent I, Year One
Daily Mass Lectionary: Week of Lent I
11 March
Monday in Lent I (V)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
12 March
Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604 (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
13 March
Wednesday in Lent I (V)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
14 March
Thursday in Lent I (V)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
15 March
Friday in Lent I (V)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross 6 pm
16 March
Saturday in Lent I
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass with Commemoration of March Departed 10 am (V)
Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) 10:30 am
17 March
THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (V)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 8 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (17 March)
Second Sunday in Lent (Year C)
Psalm 27
Genesis 15:1-12,17-18
Philippians 3:17--4:1
Luke 13:31-35
Tuesday 12 March
Vestry Meeting 7 pm (Library)
Saturday 16 March
Guild of All Souls 10 am (Lady Chapel)
EXTRA-PAROCHIAL EVENTS HOSTED AT S. STEPHEN’S
Friday 15 March
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 16 March
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
10 March
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT (V)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 8 pm
Daily Office Lectionary: Week of Lent I, Year One
Daily Mass Lectionary: Week of Lent I
11 March
Monday in Lent I (V)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
12 March
Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604 (W)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
13 March
Wednesday in Lent I (V)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
14 March
Thursday in Lent I (V)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
15 March
Friday in Lent I (V)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross 6 pm
16 March
Saturday in Lent I
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass with Commemoration of March Departed 10 am (V)
Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) 10:30 am
17 March
THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT (V)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Solemn Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 8 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (17 March)
Second Sunday in Lent (Year C)
Psalm 27
Genesis 15:1-12,17-18
Philippians 3:17--4:1
Luke 13:31-35
