Join us for the Fall Picnic

St Stephen’s oldest tradition—the Annual Fall Picnic—will once again take place at the home of Ellen Reather on scenic Dulaney Valley Road in Glen Arm, on Sunday, September 8th, at 1:00 PM.

If great food and good company in a bucolic country setting appeal to you, please plan to join us. For those who tried . . . → Read More: Join us for the Fall Picnic

New diocesan jobs for Frs Mike & Guy

I have never felt completely comfortable with the honorific “Venerable.” I am simply not holy enough to be venerated. And, besides, I am much too young to be an object of veneration.

Mercifully, Bishop John Vaughan has taken this weight off my shoulders. From henceforth, it is Father Mike Kerouac who is to be venerated . . . → Read More: New diocesan jobs for Frs Mike & Guy

The Sermon for Sunday September 1 – Trinity XIV

Here is the sermon for Sunday September 1: Trinity 14, 2013

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephen’s News XXIV No 34

DEUS Among Us

Volume 4 of DEUS Among Us, the Diocesan Newsletter, is now available. Past issues are also available in the DEUS Among Us section of our library.

The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Saint Giles

O Lord Jesus Christ, who bought us by thy Blood: Help us to follow thee and the company of Saints in merciful thought and loving deed; and especially after the gracious pattern of thy servant Giles, make us pitiful to the poor, tender toward the crippled and broken, and humbly obedient unto thee, who livest . . . → Read More: Saint Giles