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About the Feast of Epiphany, Dennis Bratcher of the Christian Research Institute writes: In western Christian tradition, January 6 is celebrated as Epiphany. It goes by other names in various church traditions. In Hispanic and Latin culture, as well as…
Continue ReadingOn the Second Sunday of Christmas, our Lectionary gives us a choice of three Gospel lessons. Today at St. Paul’s Parish, we will hear the story of the flight to Egypt from Matthew’s Gospel: Now after the wise men had…
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus is a Christian holiday observed anywhere from the first to the eighth of January, observing the naming of Jesus Christ on the eighth day of his life. It is a time to…
Continue ReadingFrom Holy Women, Holy Men: In Canterbury Cathedral on St. Peter’s Day, June 29, 1864, Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1807 – 1891) was ordained the first African bishop in Nigeria for “the countries of Western Africa beyond the limits of…
Continue ReadingFrom Holy Women, Holy Men: Frances was born in a log cabin in Holmesville, Mississippi, in 1861, of African American and Native American descent. Raised by her grandparents, she later went to live with a brother in New Orleans where…
Continue ReadingThe Gospel according to John records several incidents in which Thomas appears, and from them we are able to gain some impression of the sort of man he was. When Jesus insisted on going to Judea, to visit his friends…
Continue ReadingToday (Dec. 16) the Episcopal Church commemorates three major church architects. Ralph Adams Cram and Richard Upjohn were major architects whose influence on the design and decoration of Episcopal churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is without…
Continue ReadingBorn in Exeter, England, in 1828, John Horden was apprenticed to the blacksmith’s trade as a young boy, and devoted his spare hours to self-education. He eventually qualified as a school teacher and attended the Vicar’s Bible Class at St.…
Continue ReadingFlorence 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 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…
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