Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Before I Forget and the Day Ends....

I knew three men who knew Martin Luther King, Jr.  One lived across the hall from him in Boston when King was earning his doctorate, the other slept on King's floor in a sleeping bag during a civil right's march in Alabama, the third wrote an historically literate remembrance of him sixteen years ago.

Like King, all three of those men are now dead.  [Sigh.]  All three held King, his faith, his gift, and his humanity in high regard.  Below may be found a link to the third's remembrance:

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

King is remembered in the Episcopal Church's calendar today as we tend to remember those martyred on the dates of their martyrdom.  His collect reads:

Almighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the name of your love, and may secure for all your children the blessed liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.