Sermon from “The Book of Homilies” June 24th, 2018 1662 Prayer Book style service to observe the 325th Anniversary of St. Paul’s Parish THE HOMILY CONCERNING PRAYER There is nothing in all man’s life so needful to be spoken of, and daily to be called upon, as hearty, zealous, and devout prayer, the necessity whereof is so great, that without it nothing may be well obtained at GODS hand. For as the Apostle James saith, “Every good and perfect gift cometh from above, and proce

At 7:40 a.m. on the morning of December 9, 2015, the sound of the first firing up of a chain saw was heard around the parking lot of St. Paul’s Parish, Kent. It was time to begin the felling of Maryland’s most historical tree, the 400 year old United States Champion Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii). There have been many claims that other Maryland trees are older, but according to the Big Tree Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Department of