Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Today the church remembers Pandita (a title meaning “The Learned One.”) Mary Ramabai, 1858-1922, Prophetic Witness and Evangelist in India, called in the collect The Mother of Modern India. An Indian Hindu who was baptized into Christ in 1883, “She faced most of the obstacles a woman could encounter in the India of her lifetime." (From Holy Women, Holy Men.) She founded the Mikta Mission which still is in operation today.

                                 The Collect for Grace

in 

all 

we 

do, 

dir-

ect 

us 

to 

the 

ful-

fill-

ing 

of 

your

purpose 

 Christ bears 

this burden 

on his shoulder. 

No one but he 

can transform 

and uplift the 

downtrodden 

womanhood 

of India and 

of every land.”