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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 |
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Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, served as a diplomat in sensitive political negotiations, and protected Jews within his diocese from persecution. Steadfastly independent of secular influence, he was not afraid to rebuke either of the kings he served for treating their subjects unjustly. Hugh also refused to raise funds for King Richard's foreign wars. Even so, King Richard the Lionheart once said of him, "If all bishops were like my lord of Lincoln, not a prince among us could lift his head against them." |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 |
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The St. John's, Centreville delegation reports back from the 231st Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 |
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This week, we celebrate three prominent figures associated with the development of English Christian mysticism: Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and Margery Kempe. |
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 |
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Adeline Blanchard Tyler was the first deaconess in the Episcopal Church. She provided nursing care, religious and practical education, material support and advocacy to Baltimore's newly established St. Andrews Infirmary. Along with Carrie Guild, Eveline Black, and Catherine Minard they became known as the United Deaconesses of Maryland. During the American Civil War she was once accused of being a "Rebel sympathizer" merely because she treated wounded Union and Confederate patients with equal care and compassion. |
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Our saint this week is King Alfred the Great, the Anglo-Saxon monarch who stemmed several Nordic invasions, converted many of his enemies to Christianity, advanced the education and well-being of Christian clergy, and incorporated Mosaic Law into the British legal system to afford greater protections for his subjects. To date, he is the only British monarch to carry "the Great" in his title. |
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Junior Warden Val Tucker recaps a trip to Shrine Mont's 2025 Fall Camp. |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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Reverend William Carey was an English missionary, Reformed Baptist minister, translator, social reformer, and cultural anthropologist. Fluent in more than a dozen languages, he founded India’s first theological university to offer divinity degrees, co-founded Serampore Press (which published in 44 languages and/or dialects), and advocated successfully for laws abolishing infanticide and the practice of suttee (burning widows alive on their husband's funeral pyre). |
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Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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The Rev. Kevin Laskowski delivers the invocation kicking off Centreville Day 2025. |
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Stay safe online, and avoid scams over email and text. |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
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"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone," said our featured saint for the week Edith Cavell. Cavell was a woman of intense faith who treated soldiers on both sides of World War I. She was arrested and shot by firing squad for her ministry. |
