The bell tower was completed in January of 1893, and contained the well which supplied water for the rectory. The water was pumped up into the rectory attic and ran down by gravity. Inscribed on the tower are these words, “This bell was cast august 1885. ‘God, I praise the living, I call the dead, I lament.’
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As Bishop Curry said in his sermon at Ron’s memorial service, “Ron and Mary were so bound together by powerful love, that they gave their lives for their family, and for their church family. Now they are in the hands of God whose powerful love will never let them go.”
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BBC America has produced a three-part documentary series on the opioid addiction crisis in the United States. Camp Spirit Song and the safe space created for children to have fun while surrounded by caring, compassionate staff and peers who can relate to their experiences, is featured in the third installment of the series.
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“Having a great cloud of witnesses and the prophetic voice of Bishop Curry, who served as rector of historic St. James’ Episcopal Church in west Baltimore, will really speak truth to power,” he says. I believe in the Church and that God is doing great things in our Church. In some way or another we, as the body of Christ, can, in a short period of time (at General Convention)
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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia Bishop James B. Magness invite Episcopal churches to take part in a national action to remember and honor the first enslaved Africans who landed in English North America in 1619 by tolling their bells for one minute on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 3:00 pm ET.
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