Today the Church remembers Ephrem from Edessa (now Ufra, Turkey) who died on this day in 373. He accompanied Bishop James of Nisibis to the Council of Nicea where Ephrem, through his scholarship, defended Jesus Christ’s divinity and humanity.
He countered the Gnostics (people who believed they had secret information regarding salvation) who spread their message by using popular songs, so Ephrem composed Christian songs and hymns of his own. His nickname was “the harp of the Holy Spirit.”
Ephrem lived a simple life in a cave outside Edessa where he devoted himself to prayer and writing. He frequently went into the city to preach. During a famine in 372-3, Ephrem worked distributing food to the hungry, and organizing a sort of ambulance service for the sick. He literally worked himself to death; he became exhausted and sick, and so died.
Collect for the day:
Pour out on us, O Lord, that same Spirit by which your deacon Ephrem rejoiced to proclaim in sacred song the mysteries of faith; and so gladden our hearts that we, like him, may be devoted to you alone; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
PLEASE REMEMBER EVERYONE ON OUR PRAYER LIST. In your daily prayers, please remember everyone on our prayer list and also remember Sherman Boyer, Carol Hogan and Gladys Simon.
GOSPEL BY THE SEA: 12 June 2010
ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION: Every Sunday in the nave at 11:00 a.m. Heaven and Hell: Angels With Harps, Demons With Pitchforks Or Maybe Something Else?
COMMUNITY GARDEN MEETING: Sundays at 11:30 in the nave.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
He countered the Gnostics (people who believed they had secret information regarding salvation) who spread their message by using popular songs, so Ephrem composed Christian songs and hymns of his own. His nickname was “the harp of the Holy Spirit.”
Ephrem lived a simple life in a cave outside Edessa where he devoted himself to prayer and writing. He frequently went into the city to preach. During a famine in 372-3, Ephrem worked distributing food to the hungry, and organizing a sort of ambulance service for the sick. He literally worked himself to death; he became exhausted and sick, and so died.
Collect for the day:
Pour out on us, O Lord, that same Spirit by which your deacon Ephrem rejoiced to proclaim in sacred song the mysteries of faith; and so gladden our hearts that we, like him, may be devoted to you alone; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
PLEASE REMEMBER EVERYONE ON OUR PRAYER LIST. In your daily prayers, please remember everyone on our prayer list and also remember Sherman Boyer, Carol Hogan and Gladys Simon.
GOSPEL BY THE SEA: 12 June 2010
ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION: Every Sunday in the nave at 11:00 a.m. Heaven and Hell: Angels With Harps, Demons With Pitchforks Or Maybe Something Else?
COMMUNITY GARDEN MEETING: Sundays at 11:30 in the nave.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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