Yesterday’s saint, Thurgood Marshall, profoundly shaped contemporary public life. In the calendar, he’s listed as public servant. And in contrast to the usual method of honoring a saint on the day of his death, Marshall is honored on May 17, the day of perhaps his greatest victory, the day the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down the idea of separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896.
The service, with information about Marshall, beginning about 1:50, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kMAaS7h8E
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Saints Alive!
I have been privileged to offer Noonday Prayer at my church, usually on Thursdays, which doesn’t matter because it’s on Youtube forever. [It’s amazing what can be done with a smartphone and a smart, helpful parish administrator!] The service is brief, with a place for a meditation. We usually look at the Episcopal calendar of saints, who are nearly always honored on their death dates, not their birth dates. Here is a hymn by medieval saint Hildegard of Bingen to set the mood.
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