In the American Episcopal church on this Monday we remember Phillips Brooks, 1835–1893. priest and preacher, author of “O Little town of Bethlehem" he served as Bishop of Massachusetts from 1891 until his death from diphtheria at the age of 57, for which a vaccine did not come into wide use until the 1940s.

                Collect for Peace  

O God, 

the author 

of peace 

and lover 

of concord, 

to know 

you is 

perfect peace 

and to serve you is prefect freedom

"Whatever happens, 

always remember 

the mysterious 

richness of human 

nature and the 

nearness of God 

to each one of us."