Canticle 10
my word…
will not return to me empty; But it will ac-complish what I have purposed, and prosper in that for which I sent it.
Jonathon Daniels
was a 26 year old seminarian at the Episcopal Divinity
School in Cambridge, Massachusetts ( the black strip on his clerical collar indicates that he was a seminari-an.) who responded to the pleas of Dr. Martin Luther King for clergy to become more actively involved in the Civil Rights movement, and traveled to Alabama to assist with voter registration efforts in the South.” He died
of a shotgun blast that was meant for 16 year old Ruby Sales whom he pushed to safety. The “part time deputy sheriff” was later acquitted.
was a 26 year old seminarian at the Episcopal Divinity
School in Cambridge, Massachusetts ( the black strip on his clerical collar indicates that he was a seminari-an.) who responded to the pleas of Dr. Martin Luther King for clergy to become more actively involved in the Civil Rights movement, and traveled to Alabama to assist with voter registration efforts in the South.” He died
of a shotgun blast that was meant for 16 year old Ruby Sales whom he pushed to safety. The “part time deputy sheriff” was later acquitted.
That committment, to “strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being” as the Baptismal Covenant says, goes on. One of the present day manifestations of the struggle for which Jonathan Daniels gave his life, equal rights, equal treatment and equal re-spect for the rights of Black Americans, is Black Lives Matter. And they surely do. As all lives matter since we are brothers and sisters of the one Creator God.
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