Today we remember in the American Episcopal Church our dark history of racism and prejudice as we celebrate the life and ministry of of Absalom Jones (1746 -1818) a priest of the Church who was born a house slave in Delaware in 1746, who bought his freedom and his wife’s and became a strong abolitionist voice long before the Civil War, which, you remember ,was not until the1860s.

                                                     Psalm 30:6

Weeping 

may 

spend  

the 

night, 

but 

joy comes 

in the morning. 

Set us free, 

heavenly Father, 

from every bond  

of prejudice & fear;  

that, honoring the

steadfast courage of…

Absalom Jones, we

may show forth 

in our lives the reconciling love 

& true freedom of the children of God which you have given us in your son Jesus Christ ~ Collect