Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors Program
Inclusion in Worship
Inclusion Awareness Day Workbook 2004
Creating Congregations Where People of All Abilities
Participate
Episcopal Congregations: St. Samuel Schereschewsky
The Episcopal Church calendar is rich in the stories
of people whose lives are cause for celebration and commemoration. Two feast
days remember lives of people who lived with disabilities. October 14 is the
Feast of Samuel Isaac Schereschewsky, a bishop of Shanghai who, in the late 19th
century translated scripture into the Wenli dialect after he developed paralysis
from a muscle disease (Lesser Feasts and Fasts, pg. 394-395). During October,
parishes have transferred the feast to a Sunday to commemorate Inclusion
Awareness and the service of Schereschewsky. In August, we commemorate the
lives of Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle, leaders in providing education
and worship for the deaf community.
(Lesser Feasts and Fasts, pg. 342-343).
Rev. Deborah Seles, Chair, Episcopal Diocese of
Chicago Inclusion Task Force, Director, L’Arche Chicago
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