Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr, Christian preacher and civil rights leader. A very human man of action and thought, he was born January 15, 1929, and assassinated in 1968, one of 3 devastating political assassinations in the 60s. Being 20 years younger than he at the time, of his death I had always considered him to be... older. Now, 20+ years older than he was at the time of his death, it seems tragically young.

      Antiphon on Psalm 25

           Lead me in your truth, 

    O Lord, and teach me.

    The dream remains, 

“to resist oppression 

in the name of your 

love and to secure 

for all our children 

the blessed liberty 

of the Gospel of 

Jesus Christ"*whether they believe in or follow that Gospel or not since Jesus became flesh so that all God's children might be free. As is her custom, the Church remembers MLK on the day of his death, April 4.   *Collect