Friday– St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr Gospel – Matthew 10:17-22 Buckle Up Buttercup, It’s Gonna Be A Bumpy Ride! St. Stephen, Church of Dormition Can we all agree that no one likes going to the dentist? All it takes are those couple of words – this might hurt a little – to send us into a panic! I mean, seriously? MIGHT? A LITTLE? And yet whether we are a child or an adult, we do end up sitting there and letting them do their digging and probing. And for what? To get that perfect smile? To get rid of that cavity or remove that dead tooth? Through that pain, there was still a reward, if only the end to the pain. Today is the Feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr. And it seems very odd that we would go from the joy and celebration of Christmas Day right into observing the death of a martyr. But there is a good reason. Thought to be lost, the bones of St. Stephen were miraculously discovered...
