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  Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church, aka "the little church with the big red doors", is located on Main Street between Ninth and Iredell Streets in Durham, NC, across from Duke’s East Campus. Our community life is rooted in the sacraments; daily prayer; study of the Scriptures; and fellowship with members, friends and neighbors inside and outside our walls. Following the example of our patron saint Joseph, we want to make our church home a place of warm hospitality grounded in God’s love, and to take that love out into the world. To find out what's currently happening at St. Joseph's, scroll down or click here to see our Calendar of Events. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call us at (919) 286-1064 or contact us. Upcoming Events Information:
St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church: the Second Fifty Years:
Written by Muriel Mellown, “St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church: the Second Fifty Years” is now available for purchase in the Parish Hall. The publication is sixty pages and costs $10.00. See Mick Capon for your copy. Many thanks to Muriel, Fred and Mick for their amazing contributions to this project!
Prayer Chain at Saint Joseph’s:
Emily Thomey Leonardy is the new co-ordinator of St. Joseph's prayer chain. Please speak or email her (emily.leonardy@gmail.com) if you want participate or add to the prayer list. Thanks to Emily for taking on this important ministry.
The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray:
On Wed., July 1, at 7 PM at St. Titus' Episcopal Church in Durham there will be a service to commemorate the life of The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray.
This will be a service of Holy Eucharist, with Bishop Michael Curry as the Celebrant and Sarah Woodard as the Deacon. The preacher will be Courtney Reid-Eaton, parishioner of St. Joseph's and Director of Exhibits at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke; she will compile and read selections from the sermons & writings of Pauli Murray.
The following week, the General Convention of The Episcopal Church will consider a proposal to add The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray the church calendar. The following biographical sketch was included in that resolution:
The Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was a leader in the struggle for equal rights for women and African-Americans in the United States and throughout the world. She was also a lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, co-founder of the National Organization for Women, and the first African-American woman to be ordained priest by The Episcopal Church. Dr. Murray grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and on February 7, 1977, celebrated her first Eucharist in the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her grandmother, Cornelia, had been baptized as a slave child. Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Shori celebrated the Holy Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross on February 7, 2007, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of that ordination.
Proud Shoes Reading Group Meeting As part of the Pauli Murray Project launched by the Human Rights Center of Duke University, there will be a reading group discussion of her book, Proud Shoes, especially for area Episcopalians. It will take place at St. Joseph’s on Wednesday evening, August 12, at 7:00 p.m. Brooks Graebner, Diocesan Historiographer and Rector of St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough and Courtney Reid-Eaton, Exhibits Director at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and parishioner at St. Joseph’s, will co-facilitate the discussion. For more information and to let us know you’re coming, please contact Brooks Graebner at stmattclergy@embarqmail.com or Courtney Reid-Eaton at reideatn@duke.edu. Sunday Schedule
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