Month: October 2022
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Patricia’s Homily from the Feast of St. Francis
Read More: Patricia’s Homily from the Feast of St. FrancisToday we celebrate St. Francis of Assisi. Many know him as the “bird bath guy,” that garden statue of a peaceful looking monk in a traditional robe and tonsure, with birds perched on him. Many also know him by our popular modern tradition of celebrating his feast day as we will today by blessing pets. …
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How to Stop Using Plastic at Home – Part 3: Let’s Go Shopping!: Cleaning
Read More: How to Stop Using Plastic at Home – Part 3: Let’s Go Shopping!: CleaningJoseph Winters writes in Grist: “As the plastics industry ramps up production, plastic pollution continues to accumulate in the environment at an alarming pace. Up to 199 million metric tons of plastic is already swirling in the oceans — strangling marine life and leaching toxic chemicals into the food chain — and a study published…
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Food, Clothing, and Toiletries Drives to Help Our Community
Read More: Food, Clothing, and Toiletries Drives to Help Our CommunityAt Saint Stephen’s, we do a lot for our community! Currently we are collecting goods for four separate agencies that help our neighbors. Use the handy chart below to figure out what to bring and who it will benefit. What we need Who it helps Which Community Partner Are We Supporting When is it needed…
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Book Club for November 2022
Read More: Book Club for November 2022Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 2nd Zoom only – begins at 7:00pm All are invited to join Book Club for as many meetings as you are able, whether that be one month or every month. In November, we will discuss Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Our November meeting will be virtual, on Zoom only, beginning at…
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Protected: OSU Parking Update
Read More: Protected: OSU Parking UpdateThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Join the Choir!
Read More: Join the Choir!Sundays at 9:00 am – The Chapel Past singers and new singers are invited to join the St. Stephen’s Choir along with our Choral Scholars on Sunday mornings at 9:00am in the Chapel. Please contact Music Director Dennis Davenport at ddavenport@otterbein.edu to express your interest. We sing anthems, service music and hymns every week during…
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Altar Guild Open House
Read More: Altar Guild Open HouseSunday, November 20th After the 10:30am service The Altar Guild is holding an “open house” during coffee hour after the 10.30am service on Sunday, November 20th. This is an opportunity for everyone to visit the Sacristy and see what the Altar Guild does! Please plan to drop by and see the linens, silverware and vestments…
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Pulpit Swap this Sunday!
Read More: Pulpit Swap this Sunday!This Sunday will be our first ever Deanery pulpit swap. Priests throughout the Columbus area will be preaching and celebrating at each other’s parishes. Karl will be at Trinity on Capitol Square. We are very fortunate to have the Reverend Jed Dearing coming to St. Stephen’s. Jed joined Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square on…
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Bishop Search Focus Groups Begin
Read More: Bishop Search Focus Groups BeginOur diocese has begun the process of calling a new bishop. The Bishop Nominating Committee is holding a series of focus groups for members of the diocese to share their hopes and concerns for our next bishop. Ten focus groups will be held in person and six will be held via Zoom. *Please register in advance to allow organizers to prepare…
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New Contemplative Prayer & Study Group
Read More: New Contemplative Prayer & Study GroupA new in-person contemplative prayer group & book study is forming at St. Stephen’s! This group will meet on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month in the sanctuary of the church from 10:00 am – 11:15 am. Plenty of parking is available next to the church. The format will be: Welcome & Community…
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Moses in the Sapphire Cloud
Apophatic and Cataphatic Prayer and the Sinai Theophany He was on the mountain for forty days, and what were those days like? Alone, the sky dense around him, the earth occasionally rumbling, and when he saw a glimpse of the divine, it was as if he was looking through stained glass, stained a deep sapphire.…
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The Mixture of the Multitude: Liberation Readings of Scripture
We gathered on Wednesday evenings throughout July and August, sitting around the ubiquitous plastic folding tables that are known to every church. Sunlight slanted in through the wall of glass windows, and the smells of the parish kitchen— old coffee, musty sponges, cleaning product— filled the room. We were there to study Queer Theology, a…
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St. Francis Feast Day Pet Blessing on Sunday, October 4
Saint Francis’s Feast Day is on October 4th. We will hold our annual pet blessing in the midst of the service. Bring your pet or a photo of your pet to church! If you’re more of a plant person, bring a plant! St. Francis’s care for creation extends to all living things.
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