Library

From time to time, St Stephen’s produces or discovers documents (special liturgies, monographs, and the like) which spark particular interest among our parishioners and visitors. They are collected here for quick reference and easy distribution. In addition, past sermons and newsletters are available in our archives in PDF format.

• Sermon Archives (goes to new page)
• Newsletter Archives (goes to new page)
• Diocesan Newsletter Archives, DEUS Among Us (goes to new page)
• Parish Life meeting minutes Archives (goes to new page)
• Commentary, History, and other Documents
• Liturgical Material
• “Meme-orabilia”

Commentary, History, and other Documents

• Information Sheet for Baptisms (PDF). Detailed information required for Services of Holy Baptism
• Information Sheet for Matrimony (PDF). Detailed information required for Services of Holy Matrimony
• Ecclesia Anglicana: A History of the English Church (PDF). A monograph by the Rector, The Ven. Guy P. Hawtin (also available online, on a separate web page)
• The Remarkable History of St Stephen’s Altar (goes to a new page). The altar at St Stephen’s is a truly remarkable example of 19th-century woodworking. This brief monograph details its origins and describes how it came to reside at St Stephen’s.
• Rubrician Coat of Arms (PDF). A Coat of Arms for “The Society for the Preservation and Observance of the Rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer”, a.k.a. “The Rubricians”.
• Choir Trifold (PDF). An advertising brochure for our Choir of Men and Boys. Copies are available at the church, or you can print your own.

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Liturgical Material

• Original collects. Our Chief Liturgical Officer has written a number of original prayers for various and sundry occasions—some of them more sundry than others. You can find all of them on their very own page.
• Scripture Verses. The selected Bible Verses which appear in the box on the left side of this page are drawn from those used liturgically in the Prayer Book. You can find a complete list of them on this page.
  

• Horn Book for Holy Communion (PDF). At St Stephen’s we use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer for Holy Communion. Since this version differs slightly from the 1928 version, and since we don’t have copies of the 1662 Book in the pews for parishioners, we use this “horn book” (a laminated letter-size sheet printed front and back).
• Blessing of the Hounds (PDF). An order of service for The Blessing of the Hounds. Used in the past at parish picnics on Christ the King Sunday (the last Sunday in October), with members of the Carrollton Hunt in attendance.
• The Setting Apart of Sub-Deacons (PDF). An order of service for the Setting Apart of Sub-Deacons, adapted from the ancient rite for the Setting Apart of Deaconesses, to be used at Holy Communion before the reading of the Epistle. We have used this service to recognize those gentlemen who have been accepted as Postulants for Holy Orders.
• Oratio choristæ (PDF). A Latin translation of the RSCM Chorister’s Prayer. St Stephen’s Choir of Men and Boys is affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music, and the Choir uses the Chorister’s Prayer as their preparation for every service, led by the Head Chorister. A previous Head Chorister indicated an interest in leading the prayer in Latin, and so we provided this translation. (Instead of downloading a file, you can read the prayer, along with the original English version, here.)
• The Consecration of Holy Oils (PDF). An Anglican Rite for the Consecration of Holy Oils (viz., the Oil for the Sick, the Oil for the Catechumens, and Balsam and Oil for the Chrism).
• “Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me” (PDF). This hymn, with text by Edward Hopper (1818-1888), and set to the tune REDBEARD (rather than its original tune, PILOT), was first used at St Stephen’s on September 18th, 2011, our observance of the Eve of “Talk Like A Pirate Day” (Piratespeakmas Eve). The service honored the work of our Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine.
• Collects for the Rapture and for Aid against All Gullibility (PDF). These collects were first used at Evensong for the Sunday after the Ascension, 2011. Given the current fascination with the End of Times, these prayers fill a gap in the corpus of prayers for various and sundry occasions.
• Collects for the Armed Forces (PDF). A Collect for the Armed Forces, along with collects for Times of War and for Those Wounded in War, from A Book of Offices: Services for Occasions Not Provided For in The Book of Common Prayer, published in 1917. We regularly use the first of these at the 11:15 AM Sunday Office of Morning Prayer.
• Collects for 9/11 (PDF). These three Collects, For the Dead, For Our Enemies, and For Victory, were used at St Stephen’s Commemorations of the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11.

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“Meme-orabilia”: Images from the Internet

• Fox among the Hounds (JPEG). This photo has been bouncing around the internet for quite some time, but it’s still a Parish favorite. (This may have something to do with the Rector’s assurances at the Blessing of the Hounds that Reynard was actually in little danger of being caught by the hounds.)
• Regret (JPEG). Isaac found this “Demotivator” knock–off, which had just the right combination of cycnicism and science fiction to appeal to the St Stephen’s I.T department. Who among us can say he has never regretted a lost opportunity?

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