Prayer List -- September 25, 2020
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Members and friends are encouraged to remember the intentions on the prayer list in their own prayers throughout the week.
You are welcome to add your intercessions and thanksgiving., by contacting one of the clergy, or email Wendy Shepherd at wshepherd@holyapostlesnyc.org, or call the parish office (212) 807-6799 with your prayer requests. They will remain on the list for two weeks. Names may be added to the long-term list and will then remain there until the end of the current calendar quarter.
The prayer list is read at Morning Prayer on Wednesday and is also prayed daily by all the members of the parish Prayer Chain. If you would like to join the prayer chain, committing to praying the prayer list every day for a month at a time, please let Mother Susan know at shill@holyapostlesnyc.org.
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Meditation from Mother Anna |
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In our Calendar of Saints yesterday we remembered Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, the first African American female Deacon in the Episcopal Church. Anna was born to former slaves in 1865. She was the youngest of eleven children and spent her life and ministry in Georgia.
First employed as a teacher, Anna and her sister Mary started a school in Darien, Georgia affiliated with St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church. Anna also founded a mission in the town of Pennick, forty miles away. She supported the mission financially by taking in sewing and managed to serve in both the school and the mission by making the trip back and forth by boat and on foot!
Anna was “consecrated a Deaconess” in 1907. She continued to teach academic subjects and help her students learn what it meant to live by the teachings of Christ. Even when her diocese split and the new bishop excluded African American churches from ecclesiastical support, her worshipping community did more proportionately to assist needy people than any other church in her diocese.
Anna Alexander continued to serve until well into her final decade, avoiding questions about her age for fear she would be forbidden to work. After a life of service and breaking down barriers for women and people of color, Deaconess Alexander died on September 24, 1947. Almost 70 years later she was added to our calendar of feast days in 2018. Although her faithful witness has only recently been formally recognized by the Episcopal Church, she is an icon of faith; a model in the communion of saints.
If you are interested in learning more about the Diaconate in general and our Deacon and Deacon-in-Training here at Holy Apostles, I hope you will plan to join us this Sunday at our first Adult Forum of the program year. The forum will be held on Zoom after worship and virtual coffee hour, from noon to 12:45. It will be co-led by Deacon Bob Jacobs and Diane Wondisford, who is currently in the Diaconal formation process in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. I look forward to seeing you there and then!
-- Anna
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Dear Holy Apostles Family,
If you would like to have individual healing prayer with Deacon Bob or one of the Lay Eucharistic Visitors, please leave a message on Deacon Bob’s church phone: 646-998-6107 or 212-807-6799 ext. 107. State who you are and the number where you may be reached, and a Healing Team member will contact you.
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We pray for all God’s people throughout the world; and in the Anglican Cycle of prayer this week we pray for the Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, the Most Reverend Ezekiel Kumir Kondo, Archbishop of the Province of Sudan & Bishop of Khartoum.
We pray for Michael, our Presiding Bishop; Andrew, Allen, and Mary, our own Bishops.
We pray for our parish clergy, Anna, Bob, Susan, and Peter; for our director of music, Tim; for our director of children’s ministries, Ellen; for our seminarian from GTS, Anne; for our Episcopal Service Corps intern, Troy; and for our parish administrator, Wendy.
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For Our Nation and the World |
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We pray for Donald, our President; for Andrew, our Governor; and for Bill, our Mayor; for Congress and local leaders; that they may lead with compassion and do justice.
We pray for healing, reconciliation, economic justice, and peace in our nation and all the nations of the world.
We pray that we may reflect the wonderful diversity of your creation among us; your loving compassion through the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, Ecclesia, and our outreach efforts, and your justice through being a community that strives for peace and social and economic justice.
We pray for all those affected by COVID-19, throughout the world, and their caregivers; healthcare workers; first-responders; essential workers; educators and school staff; and social service agencies, especially our own Holy Apostles staff.
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For Health and Well Being |
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For the week of 9/27/2020:
Father Peter Carey & David Natoli
Cathy Malichio
For the week of 9/20/2020:
Sam Metcalfe
Michael O’Neill
Long Term (7/5/20 through 9/30/20):
A. J. Mitchell
Peter Majewski
Sean Campbell
Lynn Agapi Gilligan
Raymond Scott and his family
Patricia Owen Schaffer
Barbara Davison
Tallu Schuyler Quinn
Carl Anderson
Grace Murray
Joe Murray
Franz Klein
Tracy Carden
Larry Gifford
Paul LoBello
Carl Johnson
Glenn Pennoyer
Kristine and Brent Sundberg
Mary Cole
Barbara Engler
Ethan Gibson and Linda Gibson
Roseanne Kelleher Heinricks
Norma Moy-Chin
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The departed:
Brendan Mitchell (son of a seminary classmate of Mother Susan)
and for all who have died of COVID-19 virus
We pray for all those killed serving in the armed forces, especially: Ronald J. Ouellette; and for all others killed in conflicts around the world, both civilians and combatants, unknown to us but precious to God.
We pray for the bereaved, expecially: Wade Mitchell and LaRea Klarenbeek-Mitchell (parents of Brendan), his brothers and other family and friends.
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We pray for who participate in the Parish Life Committee at Holy Apostles.
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