In this edition: A Time to Act, A Time to Pray; Afghan refugees; IWC; Fun Fact; Check it Out!; Did You Know?; Upcoming events; News in the ECD community, Episcopal Church, and Anglican Communion
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A Time to Act, A Time to Pray
an ecumenical service for racial reconciliation and healing
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This service was held on January 16 and can be viewed below.
Don't miss the sermon from the Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis!
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The Episcopal Church in Delaware, the Rt. Rev. Kevin S. Brown, and Christian leaders across the state joined together in this ecumenical service of racial reconciliation and healing, held on the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, January 16.
Please share this video widely — both with your parish and those outside the parish.
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Want to support Afghan refugees
but not sure where to start?
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Welcoming Afghans Webinar
January 20
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Episcopal Migration Ministries will host a webinar for those interested in learning more about how to provide support and welcome to Afghan individuals through a new sponsorship initiative. More information
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Housing Needed
for refugees
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Church World Service has an immediate need for temporary housing for Afghan Refugees. Please share this need with your congregations. Here is a link to CWS website for more information
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In Case You Missed It:
The Winter Edition of
Delaware Communion
Articles included:
- The Blessing of Having Entertained Angels Unaware
- La Música Nos Conecta: The ministry of Sergio Iván Martinez and Alberto Martinez
- A Seat at the Table
- Grief Otherwise: When losses other than death weigh on our souls
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Invite Welcome Connect
(on the national level)
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Invite Welcome Connect Digital Gathering 2022
Wednesday, February 9, 2pm CT
How do we Welcome and Connect those who are on our congregation’s digital front porch, those whose initial contacts are online and invisible? How do we re-connect with parishioners in the aftermath of Covid, those members who are no longer as active as they were in their pre-pandemic faith communities? Next month’s Invite Welcome Connect Digital Gathering will focus on these two important topics, and we Invite you to join us as we share creative learnings and fresh initiatives that have emerged out of the pandemic. Our goal is for you to feel more hopeful and energized to share the good news of God’s love.
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Fun Fact
Question: Which US President is reputed to have called Delaware a “jewel” among states because of its strategic location along the East Coast?
Clue: The president was also a proto-archaeologist.
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Christian History
The Holy Islands of Iona and Lindisfarne
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The first Viking raid on Britain was in 793, on Lindisfarne |
The Lindisfarne Gospels has long been acclaimed as the most spectacular manuscript to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. It is a copy of the four Gospels, with associated texts that typically form part of Gospel-books, such as chapter lists and letters written by St. Jerome (d. 420). The copying and decoration of the Lindisfarne Gospels represent a remarkable artistic achievement and includes five highly elaborate full-page carpet pages, so-called because of their resemblance to carpets from the eastern Mediterranean. Four of the carpet pages appear alongside ‘incipit’ pages that mark the beginning of each Gospel; the fifth precedes the book’s prefatory material. There are also full-page images of the four Evangelists and an illuminated Chi-Rho page, where the first letters of Christ’s name are abbreviated and written in Greek as XPI. More information
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On this date in 825,
Iona was attacked
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After Viking raids on Britain began in 793, communities of monks were repeatedly attacked, and on January 19, 825, under cover of gloom and rain, Vikings descended on the monks of the island of Iona, a small island off the west coast of Scotland, in church as they concluded Mass. They slaughtered everyone but the Abbott, Blaithmaic. They demanded he show them where the reliquary of Columba was hidden. Blaithmaic disclaimed all knowledge. The monks had buried it. “And if, Christ willing, I were permitted to know, not to your ears would I tell it.” The furious Vikings hacked him to pieces. In the following century, kings of Scotland rebuilt Iona’s church because they traced their Christian heritage to the island. Several kings of Northumberland and Scotland are buried there. Today, the island of Iona lures tourists and pilgrims longing for a link to their Christian past.
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Cycle of Prayer in the Episcopal Church in Delaware |
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This week (week of January 16), in our diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we hold up in prayer Christ Church, Milford, vestry leadership and parish. For the 2022 Cycle of Prayer, click here.
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Christ Church Dover is looking to hire two new staff members: an Organist/Choirmaster and a Communications and Marketing Minister.
For application information and overview of position, see below.
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Upcoming Events in Our Community |
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Faith and Poetry: People of the Bible, continues at Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington,
Wednesday, January 19, 6:30pm.
The evening includes a supper of soup and bread, a welcome and introduction by Father David Beresford, a reading of the poem, followed by discussion. The poem on Wednesday, January 19 is Bathsheba Bathing by Sarah Russell. For more info and to register for the course, please click here:
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The Rev. Christopher Chamberlin Moore, priest associate at the Brandywine Collaborative Ministries in Wilmington, and author of the recently published Soul Stages: Surviving and Thriving in the Second Half of Life, will be giving an address on the same topic at the Episcopal Church Club of Philadelphia, via Zoom, Tuesday, February 8, 11am.
Moore will describe the unique challenges and opportunities of the second half of life, and speak of the importance of seeing life transitions as as opportunities for spiritual and emotional growth. Soul Stages is available on line from the publisher as well as from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Cokesbury. Join Zoom meeting here
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The Arts at Trinity presents Simple Gifts,
Sunday, February 27, Trinity Church, Wilmington
Two women plus twelve musical instruments equals one rollicking afternoon of fun when the folk duo Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning duo plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions written in a traditional style. More information
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News from the Episcopal Church and beyond |
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25
This is the traditional period in the northern hemisphere for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The Episcopal Church Office of Ecumenical and Interreligous Relations invites you to use this material to express the degree of communion which the churches have already reached, and to pray together for that full unity which is Christ’s will. More Information
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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites people of all backgrounds and faiths to support the hope-filled, life-impacting work of two historically Black institutions of higher education through donations and dedicated offerings on the Feast of Absalom Jones, the first Black priest ordained by the church, observed February 13. More information
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News from the Anglican Communion |
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The Church of England’s new Daily Prayer app
It lays out a script for morning, evening, and night prayer from the daily office with an accompanying audio for morning and evening prayer. The Daily Prayer app makes accessible two of the great heritages of the Anglican tradition: the prayer book and choral music.
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