Today on the Episcopal Calendar we remember Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Style

                               Psalm 18: 1a, 2a

  

 I 

love 

you, 

O 

Lord, 

my strength, 

My rock in whom I put my trust.

 Thomas Gallaudet (1787- 1851)
is called The Apostle to the Deaf  His ministry too the deaf in the Episcopal Church began one day when he looked out a window and saw children playing, but not with one little deaf girl who stood alone.

Thomas Winter Style 
(1846 –1890) was his student and parishioner who became the first deaf person to be ordained in the Episcopal Church. 

Pray for all who are deaf and hard of  hearing, and for their sense of isolation, for those who cannot hear the voice of their loved ones, the 

songs of birds, the sound of the ocean or the spoken Word of God.