Thursday May 18, 2017, and the anniversary of my confirmation in 1968, a significant event in my journey to God and in God. *

                                          Antiphon: Psalm 72

           You

           are 

           my 

           hope, 

           O Lord

           God, my 
           confidence 

           since I was young. 

Thurgood Marshall 

          1908–1993  

(transferred from yesterday) was a 

lawyer and jurist,

and parenthetically, 

an Episcopalian, was legal counsel 

of the NAACP before being appointed 

the 96th associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1967 by Lyndon 

B. Johnson. Denied access to his prefer-red university by its segregationist pol-icies, he was thefirst African-American 

on the court. Racial justice is not a 

matter of our distant past.

            Grant us 

            the same 

            grace & 

            courage 

            to discern 

            & speak 

            the truth   

               

                  - Based on the Collect