Memorable holiness comes in many forms. No Christian need ever be short of a role model!
We have early church martyrs like the noblewoman Perpetua, and modern martyrs like Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda. We have missionaries like Patrick, mystics like Julian of Norwich and social reformers like Elizabeth Fry and Martin Luther King Jr. We have royal luminaries like Margaret of Scotland and pioneers like Mary Sumner who founded the Mothers’ Union.
We also have some some special Australian Anglican “friends above,” like the Western Australian woman, Georgiana Molloy, and the first Aboriginal Anglican to be ordained, James Noble. Sometimes we commemorate Roman Catholics even when their own church has not officially canonised them. One example in the Australian calendar is Pope John XXIII, who famously called for the winds of change to blow through the Catholic Church in the renewal processes of the second Vatican Council in the early 1960s.
Such is the company of heavenly friends in which Australian Anglicans will count Mary MacKillop….
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Elizabeth Smith–Australian Saints Not a Novelty for Anglicans
Memorable holiness comes in many forms. No Christian need ever be short of a role model!
We have early church martyrs like the noblewoman Perpetua, and modern martyrs like Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda. We have missionaries like Patrick, mystics like Julian of Norwich and social reformers like Elizabeth Fry and Martin Luther King Jr. We have royal luminaries like Margaret of Scotland and pioneers like Mary Sumner who founded the Mothers’ Union.
We also have some some special Australian Anglican “friends above,” like the Western Australian woman, Georgiana Molloy, and the first Aboriginal Anglican to be ordained, James Noble. Sometimes we commemorate Roman Catholics even when their own church has not officially canonised them. One example in the Australian calendar is Pope John XXIII, who famously called for the winds of change to blow through the Catholic Church in the renewal processes of the second Vatican Council in the early 1960s.
Such is the company of heavenly friends in which Australian Anglicans will count Mary MacKillop….
Read it all.