Florence Nightingale became a living legend as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. She led the nurses caring for thousands of soldiers during the Crimean War and helped save the British army from medical disaster. This was just one of Florence’s…
Continue ReadingWe give thanks to you, O Lord, for the vision and skill of Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose artistic depictions helped the peoples of their age understand the full suffering and glory of your incarnate…
Continue ReadingToday on the Episcopal Church’s calendar of commemorations we find remembrance of three German Renaissance artists: Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His…
Continue ReadingToday at Christ Church, Hudson, there will be a Requiem for Lee Jennings, the daughter of our Mission Area Dean Albert Jennings. Lee died unexpectedly last week at the age of 30 years. The service is scheduled to start at…
Continue ReadingToday at Christ Church, Hudson, there will be a Requiem for Lee Jennings, the daughter of our Mission Area Dean Albert Jennings. Lee died unexpectedly last week at the age of 30 years. We off the following prayer for the…
Continue ReadingGracious God, we thank you for the witness of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, passionate prophet of civil rights, whose scholarship advanced the dignity of the souls of black folk; and we pray that we, like him, may use our gifts…
Continue ReadingScholar and political activist W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois attended Harvard University and in 1895 became the first African-American to receive a doctorate from the school. He became a…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, we bless you for moving your servant Samuel Ferguson to minister in Liberia, expanding the missionary vision of your Church in education and ministry. Stir up in us a zeal for your mission and a yearning for your…
Continue ReadingAlthough Samuel David Ferguson was not the first black person to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was the first African-American seated in the the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. (Bishop James Theodore Holly was the first…
Continue ReadingLet your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you…
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