A Day to Remember

 

This is the 12^th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11.  This morning I am leaving New York City for Boston from Penn Station.  This day is much like that day 12 years ago.  The sky is clear.  The traffic on the streets is building as cabs and buses bring workers to their employment.  Penn Station is filled with people living their daily lives.  Some are going to work; some are folks traveling to see loved ones, or perhaps to see a bit of the world.  But on this day, there is that underlying tension in New York City, that remembrance of how an ordinary morning can change in an instant from the mundane to the horrific when hate prevails and unleashes deadly destruction.  On that day 12 years ago, our nation changed.

 

At St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church on Park Avenue in New York City at noon today, firefighters, choirs, and people from the city and other places will come together to remember and to pray for all of those who lost loved ones on that day, and to pray for healing in New York City; Shankesville, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; the nation and for the world.  Join with them in your prayers today.

 

Let us pray: Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

 

CALENDAR REMINDERS & OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY

 

Back to Church Sunday is this Sunday, 15 September!  This is an Anglican Communion wide event.  Please invite someone to Church that Sunday.  We will also be having a baptism.

 

Adult Christian Education: we will resume the ethics series on the 15^th of September.

 

William Temple Cooking Teams: All 3 parishes on the Island are forming teams to cook one Wednesday a month for the William Temple students.  Trinity will have 2 teams and Grace and St. Augustine will each have a team.  William Temple will provide the food, and we provide the cooking.  I will have a sign-up sheet in Sutton Hall.

 

Please remember everyone on our Prayer List, especially Lee and Gladys.

 

Your servant in Christ,

 

Fr. Chester J. Makowski+

St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church

Galveston, Texas 77550