September 29, 2010
Do I believe in angels?
I found myself asking this question this morning as I prepared to read Matins in the church office. And I wasn’t sure I could answer the question.
Certainly I believe in angels in the root sense of the word, the idea that there are messengers from God. (more…)
September 27, 2010
Well, yesterday would have been the day we commemorate Lancelot Andrewes — if it had not been a Sunday. (more…)
September 3, 2010
Today we remember Prudence Crandall, who was born into a Quaker family in Rhode Island (and educated at a Friend’s boarding school since Friends believed in educating women). She started a school for girls in Connecticut attended by the daughters of the wealthy. Two years later, when she admitted Sarah Harris, a young African American girl, parents demanded that she be expelled. (more…)
July 19, 2010
I have been enjoying “Holy Women, Holy Men (Celebrating the Saints)” — which replaces and greatly expands (and also edits) the old “Lesser Feasts and Fasts.” We added just over 100 new names to our (optional) calendar. And it’s been fun seeing who’s now included. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the great opponent of slavery and the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (the best-selling book of the nineteenth century — Lincoln is supposed to have said, upon meeting her, “So this is the little lady who started this great war!”) is there. (more…)
May 22, 2010
Thanks to Susan’s note, I found this at St. Dunstan’s Priory, about Bede Griffiths, about whom I had not heard before, who they commemorate May 13 (my father’s birthday):
Bede Griffiths (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known as Swami Dayananda (Bliss of Compassion), was a British-born Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India. He was born at Walton-on-Thames, England and studied literature at Magdalen College, Oxford under professor and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis, who became a lifelong friend. Griffiths recounts the story of his conversion in 1931 to Roman Catholicism while a student at Oxford in his autobiography The Golden String. (more…)
November 19, 2009
Roshi Doshi posted this on open windows & unlocked doors:
In Memory of Daido Roshi (1931-2009)
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October 6, 2009
I have to admit, I’ve never been all that interested in William Tyndale. (more…)
August 26, 2009
The Saints of Summer: Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
Thomas Gallaudet (1822-1902) and Henry Winter Syle (1846-1890) were pioneers in the education and inclusion of the deaf in the life of The Episcopal Church. Galladet, born in Connecticut, followed in his father’s footsteps as an educator of the hearing impaired.
Thomas (in the color image) was not deaf, but his wife, Elizabeth was deaf. He was ordained in The Episcopal Church, and established St. Ann’s Church in New York with worship services primarily in sign language.One of Gallaudet’s students, Henry Winter Syle (black and white photograph) became the first deaf person ordained an Episcopal priest. Syle, born in China, educated in Gallaudet’s school, was encouraged by Gallaudet to seek ordination. Syle went on to establish his own congregation for the deaf.The work and witness of Gallaudet and Syle are great reminders that our church has long sought to include all of God’s children at the Holy Table. We follow giant footsteps as we continue their work.
