Bernard Mizeki was born about the year 1861 in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique). In his early teens, he escaped from his native land and went to Capetown, South Africa. There he was befriended and converted by Anglican missionaries, receiving Holy…
Continue ReadingAlmighty and everlasting God, who kindled the flame of your love in the heart of your holy martyr Bernard Mizeki: Grant to us, your humble servants, a like faith and power of love, that we who rejoice in his triumph…
Continue ReadingGod our Father, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing after selfish goals.…
Continue ReadingGeorge Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher and Church of England clergyman and later a bishop. He claimed that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions — a view that would influence Hume, Kant, and…
Continue ReadingHoly God, source of all wisdom: We give thanks for your servants George Berkeley and Joseph Butler, who by their life and work strengthened your Church and illumined your world. Help us, following their examples, to place our hearts and…
Continue ReadingEvelyn Underhill (Mrs. Hubert Stuart Moore) was born in 1850 and grew up in London. Her friends included Laurence Housman (poet and brother of the poet A E Housman) and Sarah Bernhardt (actress), and Baron Friedrich von Huegel, a writer…
Continue ReadingO God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all your creatures; Grant that your Church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, guarded evermore by your power, and guided by your Spirit into the light of truth, may continually offer to you…
Continue ReadingSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church is seeking an assisting musician to work with our Music Director to expand our musical repertoire. We are looking for a keyboardist or guitarist comfortable with accompanying choir and congregational singing, and familiar with contemporary, folk…
Continue ReadingSaint Basil the Great (330 – 379) was bishop of Caesarea and a leading churchman in the 4th century. The Church considers him a saint and one of the “Cappadocian Fathers”, together with Saints Gregory the Theologian (Gregory Nazianzus) and…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, you have revealed to your Church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfast in the…
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