Today the Episcopal Church honors and remembers four women in American history who had prophetic voices and who spoke out against injustices in society: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer.
SOJOURNER TRUTH (26 November 1883)
Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York around 1798. In 1826 she escaped with the aid of Quaker Abolitionists and became a street-corner evangelist. She founded a shelter for homeless women. She spoke at numerous church gatherings quoting the Bible extensively from memory, and speaking against slavery and for an improved legal status for women.
HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN (10 March 1913)
Harriet Ross was born in 1820 in Maryland. She was deeply influenced by the account in the Book of Exodus of God’s deliverance of the Israelites out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt. She firmly believed that God would deliver the slaves in America out of their bondage, and that it was her calling to help accomplish this. In 1844, she escaped to Canada, but returned to help others escape from slavery. Working with other Abolitionists, mainly Quakers, she made at least nineteen trips into Maryland in the 1850s, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom. During the Civil War, she joined the Union Army as a cook, a nurse and a spy. On one occasion she led a raid that freed over 750 slaves. After the war, she worked with orphans and the poor. She worked to advance the status of women as well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (26 October 1902)
Elizabeth Stanton was born in 1815 and brought up in the Presbyterian Church, although she later rebelled against the strict Calvinist doctrine of predestination. She travelled the country speaking in favor of women’s rights.
AMELIA JENKS BLOOMER (30 December 1894)
Amelia Jenks was born in New York in 1818 and brought up as a Presbyterian. She became an activist against slavery and alcohol, and an advocate for the right of women to vote. Mrs. Bloomer and her husband eventually settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she worked to promote churches, schools, libraries, and reform movements.
Let us pray: O God, whose Spirit guides us into all truth and makes us free: Strengthen and sustain us as you did your servants Elizabeth, Amelia, Sojourner, and Harriet. Give us vision and courage to stand against oppression and injustice and all that works against the glorious liberty to which you call all your children; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS:
Adult Christian Formation: Join us for the last gathering in the series on heaven and hell, Angels with Harps or Demons with Pitchforks, Or Something Else, on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. in the nave.
UBE Youth at St. Augustine from 31 July to 1 August: The Union of Black Episcopalians Youth will stay with us at St. Augustine to learn their history and the place of this Church in the Diocese of Texas, and to use our facilities as a base of operations as they do mission work at St. Vincent's House. Corlie Jackson has asked us to feed our visitors on Sunday morning. She does not have an exact number yet, but she also said that the UBE would pay for the food.
Kitchen Shower: First weekend in August.
The Feast Day of St. Augustine & Blessing of the New Facilities:
Dinner celebration on Saturday, 28 August 2010
Eucharist, Sunday, 29 August 2010
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL THOSE ON OUR PRAYER LIST and especially:
Russ Viska who had a double bypass
Sue and Sean Coleman as Sue
Roylene Lemons’ continued recovery from cancer surgery
Baby Hayden and for his mother, Clarrissa Blevins
Gladys Simon
Cindi Clack
Let us pray for all of those serving in the Armed Forces, especially:
Lewis Lemons
Brian Taylor
Lt. Col. Bryan Leslie Runion
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
SOJOURNER TRUTH (26 November 1883)
Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York around 1798. In 1826 she escaped with the aid of Quaker Abolitionists and became a street-corner evangelist. She founded a shelter for homeless women. She spoke at numerous church gatherings quoting the Bible extensively from memory, and speaking against slavery and for an improved legal status for women.
HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN (10 March 1913)
Harriet Ross was born in 1820 in Maryland. She was deeply influenced by the account in the Book of Exodus of God’s deliverance of the Israelites out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt. She firmly believed that God would deliver the slaves in America out of their bondage, and that it was her calling to help accomplish this. In 1844, she escaped to Canada, but returned to help others escape from slavery. Working with other Abolitionists, mainly Quakers, she made at least nineteen trips into Maryland in the 1850s, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom. During the Civil War, she joined the Union Army as a cook, a nurse and a spy. On one occasion she led a raid that freed over 750 slaves. After the war, she worked with orphans and the poor. She worked to advance the status of women as well.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (26 October 1902)
Elizabeth Stanton was born in 1815 and brought up in the Presbyterian Church, although she later rebelled against the strict Calvinist doctrine of predestination. She travelled the country speaking in favor of women’s rights.
AMELIA JENKS BLOOMER (30 December 1894)
Amelia Jenks was born in New York in 1818 and brought up as a Presbyterian. She became an activist against slavery and alcohol, and an advocate for the right of women to vote. Mrs. Bloomer and her husband eventually settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she worked to promote churches, schools, libraries, and reform movements.
Let us pray: O God, whose Spirit guides us into all truth and makes us free: Strengthen and sustain us as you did your servants Elizabeth, Amelia, Sojourner, and Harriet. Give us vision and courage to stand against oppression and injustice and all that works against the glorious liberty to which you call all your children; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS:
Adult Christian Formation: Join us for the last gathering in the series on heaven and hell, Angels with Harps or Demons with Pitchforks, Or Something Else, on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. in the nave.
UBE Youth at St. Augustine from 31 July to 1 August: The Union of Black Episcopalians Youth will stay with us at St. Augustine to learn their history and the place of this Church in the Diocese of Texas, and to use our facilities as a base of operations as they do mission work at St. Vincent's House. Corlie Jackson has asked us to feed our visitors on Sunday morning. She does not have an exact number yet, but she also said that the UBE would pay for the food.
Kitchen Shower: First weekend in August.
The Feast Day of St. Augustine & Blessing of the New Facilities:
Dinner celebration on Saturday, 28 August 2010
Eucharist, Sunday, 29 August 2010
PLEASE REMEMBER ALL THOSE ON OUR PRAYER LIST and especially:
Russ Viska who had a double bypass
Sue and Sean Coleman as Sue
Roylene Lemons’ continued recovery from cancer surgery
Baby Hayden and for his mother, Clarrissa Blevins
Gladys Simon
Cindi Clack
Let us pray for all of those serving in the Armed Forces, especially:
Lewis Lemons
Brian Taylor
Lt. Col. Bryan Leslie Runion
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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