PARISH NOTES
Sunday 3 March 2019
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| Pietro Perugino, Transfiguration, between 1497 and 1500 Fresco, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia, Italy |
FROM THE RECTOR
A key theme of the Last Sunday after the Epiphany is “veils.” In the reading from Exodus, Moses has to veil himself when he has been in the Lord’s presence lest the brightness of his face terrify the people. In his Second Letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes of a veil over people’s minds that prevents their fully understanding the Scriptures. In the Gospel reading, the “veil” of our Lord’s human nature momentarily becomes translucent so that the light of his divine glory shines through. Veiling and unveiling images is an important ritual component of the Lenten season now almost upon us. What sorts of literal and figurative “veils” are necessary in our religious and spiritual lives? And when can we expect, “with unveiled face” to behold the glory of the Lord? Join us this Sunday as we engage these sublime questions. – Fr. John D. Alexander
Exodus 34:29-35
2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2
Luke 9:28-36
Nico Muhly (b. 1981)—Bright Mass with Canons
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)—See, see, the Word is Incarnate
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.
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.
Guest Organist – We welcome Leo Abbott, Emeritus Music Director of Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, as our guest organist today.
Rector’s Online Book Group – concludes its discussion of C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, chapters eleven through fourteen, this evening, Sunday 3 March, from 8 to 9 pm.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – is this Tuesday, March 5, 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 this Wednesday, March 6. 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, starting 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. 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, beginning this Friday, March 8. 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 will be 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), beginning March 9th. All are 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.
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, Henry, Norman, John, James, 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: George Ryan (Wednesday 3/6).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Howard Johnson (4 March 2015), Josephine Garrett Brown (7 March 1989), Hilda Grace Stevens (7 March 1991), Susan B. Brazil (8 March 2018), and Ruth Hannah Godfrey (9 March 1987).
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Iglesia Anglicana de Chile: The Most Rev’d Héctor (Tito) Zavala Muñoz, Bishop of Santiago & Primate; in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, for our retired Bishops, George Hunt and Geralyn Wolf and for all retired clergy of our Diocese.
Acolytes – MC D Malo, SD J Ihnen, Thurifer R Noble, Torches G Benziger and C Sylvia
Lector – RG Noble
Ushers – Karl Benziger and Bobby Rose
Coffee Hour – Karl and Klara Benziger
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 3 March
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 8 March
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 9 March
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
3 March
THE LAST SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (W)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Sung Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Daily Mass Lectionary: Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year One (Monday and Tuesday); Ash Wednesday and Weekdays Following (Wednesday through Saturday, except as noted below)
Daily Office Lectionary: Week of Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year One
Monday 4 March
FERIA (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Tuesday 5 March
FERIA (G)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday 6 March
ASH WEDNESDAY (V) – (Imposition of Ashes available at all services)
Morning Prayer and Blessing of Ashes 9 am
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Solemn Mass 7 pm
Thursday 7 March
Perpetua, Felicity, and Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 (R)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
8 March
Friday after Ash Wednesday (V)
Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, 1910
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross 6 pm
Saturday 9 March
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394 (W)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) 10:30 am
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 8 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (10 March)
First Sunday in Lent (Year C)
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
Last Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Psalm 99Exodus 34:29-35
2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2
Luke 9:28-36
THIS SUNDAY’S MUSIC
Nico Muhly (b. 1981)—Bright Mass with Canons
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)—See, see, the Word is Incarnate
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.
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.
Guest Organist – We welcome Leo Abbott, Emeritus Music Director of Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, as our guest organist today.
Rector’s Online Book Group – concludes its discussion of C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, chapters eleven through fourteen, this evening, Sunday 3 March, from 8 to 9 pm.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – is this Tuesday, March 5, 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 this Wednesday, March 6. 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, starting 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. 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, beginning this Friday, March 8. 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 will be 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), beginning March 9th. All are 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.
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, Henry, Norman, John, James, 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: George Ryan (Wednesday 3/6).
The faithful departed: Year’s Mind: Howard Johnson (4 March 2015), Josephine Garrett Brown (7 March 1989), Hilda Grace Stevens (7 March 1991), Susan B. Brazil (8 March 2018), and Ruth Hannah Godfrey (9 March 1987).
Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer – In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we are asked to pray for the Iglesia Anglicana de Chile: The Most Rev’d Héctor (Tito) Zavala Muñoz, Bishop of Santiago & Primate; in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, for our retired Bishops, George Hunt and Geralyn Wolf and for all retired clergy of our Diocese.
THE SUNDAY ROTA
Acolytes – MC D Malo, SD J Ihnen, Thurifer R Noble, Torches G Benziger and C Sylvia
Lector – RG Noble
Ushers – Karl Benziger and Bobby Rose
Coffee Hour – Karl and Klara Benziger
THIS WEEK AT S. STEPHEN’S
PARISH PROGRAMS, EVENTS & MEETINGS
Sunday 3 March
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 8 March
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Meeting 4-11 pm (Great Hall)
Saturday 9 March
Epiphany Soup Kitchen 2:30 pm (Great Hall)
LITURGICAL CALENDAR & SERVICE SCHEDULE
3 March
THE LAST SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY (W)
Morning Prayer 8 am
Low Mass 8:10 am
Sung Mass 10 am
Evening Prayer w/ EMBR 5:30 pm
Daily Mass Lectionary: Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year One (Monday and Tuesday); Ash Wednesday and Weekdays Following (Wednesday through Saturday, except as noted below)
Daily Office Lectionary: Week of Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year One
Monday 4 March
FERIA (G)
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Low Mass 6 pm
Tuesday 5 March
FERIA (G)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Wednesday 6 March
ASH WEDNESDAY (V) – (Imposition of Ashes available at all services)
Morning Prayer and Blessing of Ashes 9 am
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
Solemn Mass 7 pm
Thursday 7 March
Perpetua, Felicity, and Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 (R)
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
8 March
Friday after Ash Wednesday (V)
Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, 1910
Noonday Prayer 12 noon
Low Mass 12:10 pm
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross 6 pm
Saturday 9 March
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394 (W)
Morning Prayer 9:30 am
Low Mass 10 am
Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) 10:30 am
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 8 pm
NEXT SUNDAY'S READINGS (10 March)
First Sunday in Lent (Year C)
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
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| Marko Ivan Rupnik, S. J. Moses Veiled (Detail), c. 2012 Mosaic, Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Rome, Italy |
