Frederick Douglass

During Black history month, the Church remembers someone who had a prophetic voice who worked to abolish slavery in this nation and was an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass (1818 -1895). 

Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland. He was separated from his mother when he was an infant. Douglass was taught to read by his master’s wife; the act of teaching a slave to read was illegal. 

In 1838, Douglass escaped to freedom and went to Massachusetts. 

Douglass’s abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, had as its motto: “Right is of no Sex — Truth is of no Color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.”

He believed that education was the key for African Americans to improve their lives, and he was an advocate for school desegregation.

Douglass conferred with presidents, including Abraham Lincoln in 1863 on the treatment of soldiers, and President Andrew Johnson on the subject of the vote.

Let us pray:  Almighty God, whose truth makes us free: We bless your Name for the witness of Frederick Douglass, whose impassioned and reasonable speech moved the hearts of a president and a people to a deeper obedience to Christ. Strengthen us also to be outspoken on behalf of those in captivity and tribulation, continuing in the Word of Jesus Christ our Liberator; who with you and the Holy Spirit dwells in glory everlasting. Amen.

CALENDAR REMINDERS

The first in the Wednesday Lenten Series begins this week at St. Augustine’s with the Rev. Dr. Allen Robinson at 6 p.m. Thus far we have the following for dinner:

        Short rib and vegetable soup: Makowskis

        Green beans and rice pilaf: Taylors

Seaside Seniors meet this Thursday in Sutton Hall.

Absalom Jones Day Eucharist at Hope Episcopal Church, 1613 West 43rd Street, Houston, Texas on Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 3 pm.

DOK Quiet Day at Trinity in Dickenson on Saturday, 16 March from 9 am to 2 pm led by the Rev. Nan Doerr.  Contact Teresa Antley at 281-802-5881 or the Rev. Stacy Stringer at 281-337-1833.

Please remember everyone on our Prayer List.

Your servant in Christ,

The Rev. Chester J. Makowski+

St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550