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Comment on Easter Vigil readings: collect for Baruch or Proverbs reading by practicepracticepractice

practicepracticepractice — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:37:15 +0000

Thanks for the complete list of readings –

Glad we can be of assistance. Next time please give us your first and last name. — Ed.

Comment on May 13: Frances Perkins, Public Servant and Prophetic Witness, 1965 by May 13 – Frances Perkins : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 13 – Frances Perkins : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:35:52 +0000

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Comment on May 10: Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Prophetic Witness, 1760 by May 10 – Nicholas von Zinzendorf : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 10 – Nicholas von Zinzendorf : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:06:59 +0000

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Comment on May 8: Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417 by May 8 – Julian of Norwich : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 8 – Julian of Norwich : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:30:22 +0000

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Comment on May 7: Harriet Starr Cannon, Religious, 1896 by May 7 – Mother Harriet Cannon : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 7 – Mother Harriet Cannon : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:44:51 +0000

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Comment on May 9: Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389 by May 6, 2013 – Gregory of Nazianzus : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 6, 2013 – Gregory of Nazianzus : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:30:35 +0000

[...] Today (May 6) is a feria. However, since Gregory Nazianzan will get “bumped” by the Feast of the Ascension on May 9, 2013, we are remembering him today. Learn about St. Gregory. [...]

Comment on May 4: Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 by May 4 – Monnica : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 4 – Monnica : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Sat, 04 May 2013 10:34:27 +0000

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Comment on April 30: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Editor & Prophetic Witness, 1879 by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale | Hear what the Spirit is saying

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale | Hear what the Spirit is saying — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:36:23 +0000

[...] On our “Wednesday Morning Spiritual Day Hike” we walked with Sarah Josepha Buell Hale yesterday (5/1/13). Sarah Hale is commemorated in the Episcopal Church’s (trial) Calendar, Holy Women, Holy Men on April 30th. [...]

Comment on May 2: Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373 by May 2 – Athanasius of Alexandria : St. Paul's Episcopal Church

May 2 – Athanasius of Alexandria : St. Paul's Episcopal Church — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:37:24 +0000

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Comment on April 30: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Editor & Prophetic Witness, 1879 by Sarah Dylan Breuer

Sarah Dylan Breuer — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:06:54 +0000

I ran this by my partner, who’s an Americanist. She was puzzled by the bio — especially by the untrue assertion that Hale wrote the first American novel from a female author. Susanna Rowson’s novel ‘Charlotte Temple’ usually gets prior claim (she was born in England and came to America, so all of this depends on what one calls “American”). Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel ‘The Coquette’ came out in 1797, and she was born in Massachusetts, so she definitely beat Hale to the “American novel” punch.

The more important question for me, though, is whether the people we include in our calendar — lay or ordained — are exemplars of a “godly” (however you define that) and kenotic way of life.

HWHM places far more emphasis on fame and professional success — values mainstream American culture in particular needs no encouragement to cultivate, having exalted them alongside “family values” as supreme — than I’d like. Is there nothing that a lay person can do that’s “saintly” but is NOT about achieving in a career? And when we celebrate clergy in the calendar, are we celebrating their achievements as professionals?