During Advent, we hear from the prophetic voices of John the Baptizer, but also from voices like Maria Stewart.
In 2009, the Episcopal Church provisionally adopted the commemoration of Maria Stewart (Maria Miller) who was born in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on this day in December of 1879. She was an African American public speaker, abolitionist, and feminist. At the age of five she became an orphan and was sent to live with a minister and his family, where she was a servant in their home. She later moved to Boston, and married James W. Stewart. He died after only three years of marriage, and she was cheated out of a considerable inheritance. She then embarked on a short (1831-1833) writing and public speaking career, for which she is best known. Her most famous speech was Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality The Sure Foundation on which We Must Build. This and others were published in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator.
She later moved to New York, and then to Washington, D.C., where she was head matron of the Freedman's Hospital.
Collect of the day: God, in whose service alone is perfect freedom: We thank you for your modern prophetic voice Maria Stewart, who testified that we are made not by the color of our skin but by the principle formed in our soul. Fill us, like her, with the hope and determination to break every chain of enslavement, that bondage and ignorance may melt like wax before flames, and we may build that community of justice and love which is founded on Jesus Christ our cornerstone; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS
Christmas Eve Eucharist Rite II: 24 December at 5:00 p.m.
Adult Christian Formation: The Advent series continues next Sunday.
Bishop’s Committee Meeting: Next Sunday to discuss the Presiding Bishop’s visit on 16 January and the year end matters for Diocesan Council.
Please remember everyone on our prayer list, especially, Cindi, Carol, Bob, John, the Huellar family and Lee.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
In 2009, the Episcopal Church provisionally adopted the commemoration of Maria Stewart (Maria Miller) who was born in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on this day in December of 1879. She was an African American public speaker, abolitionist, and feminist. At the age of five she became an orphan and was sent to live with a minister and his family, where she was a servant in their home. She later moved to Boston, and married James W. Stewart. He died after only three years of marriage, and she was cheated out of a considerable inheritance. She then embarked on a short (1831-1833) writing and public speaking career, for which she is best known. Her most famous speech was Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality The Sure Foundation on which We Must Build. This and others were published in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator.
She later moved to New York, and then to Washington, D.C., where she was head matron of the Freedman's Hospital.
Collect of the day: God, in whose service alone is perfect freedom: We thank you for your modern prophetic voice Maria Stewart, who testified that we are made not by the color of our skin but by the principle formed in our soul. Fill us, like her, with the hope and determination to break every chain of enslavement, that bondage and ignorance may melt like wax before flames, and we may build that community of justice and love which is founded on Jesus Christ our cornerstone; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
CALENDAR REMINDERS
Christmas Eve Eucharist Rite II: 24 December at 5:00 p.m.
Adult Christian Formation: The Advent series continues next Sunday.
Bishop’s Committee Meeting: Next Sunday to discuss the Presiding Bishop’s visit on 16 January and the year end matters for Diocesan Council.
Please remember everyone on our prayer list, especially, Cindi, Carol, Bob, John, the Huellar family and Lee.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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