sleep and tomorrow wake to a new day of blessings and joy given and received. Amen.
The image is that of James Hannington, martyred in 1885
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Friday, 29 October 2021
Compline (night prayer) - Friday, 29 October 2021
As we go to our beds may we, enfolded in your love and the peace of Your presence,
sleep and tomorrow wake to a new day of blessings and joy given and received. Amen.
sleep and tomorrow wake to a new day of blessings and joy given and received. Amen.
Today the Church celebrates: James Hannington
Today the Church celebrates the life, ministry and martyrdom of James Hannington and other Christians:
James Hannington was born in 1847 of a Congregationalist family but he became an Anglican before going up to Oxford.
He was ordained and, after serving a curacy for five years, went with the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. He was consecrated bishop for that part of Africa in 1884 and a year later began a safari inland from Mombasa, together with other European and indigenous Christians.
The ruler of the Buganda, Mwanga, who despised Christians because they refused to condone his moral turpitude, seized the whole party, tortured them for several days and then had them butchered to death on this day in 1885.
James Hannington was born in 1847 of a Congregationalist family but he became an Anglican before going up to Oxford.
He was ordained and, after serving a curacy for five years, went with the Church Missionary Society to Uganda. He was consecrated bishop for that part of Africa in 1884 and a year later began a safari inland from Mombasa, together with other European and indigenous Christians.
The ruler of the Buganda, Mwanga, who despised Christians because they refused to condone his moral turpitude, seized the whole party, tortured them for several days and then had them butchered to death on this day in 1885.
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