Worship Time:
Sundays, 10:30 am
CHUM drop-in center, downtown Duluth
News from St. Enmegabowh’s mission:
St. Enmegahbowh’s ministry continues to change and worship is now offered up to the Lord and closer
(physically) to the people “Where Feather Meets Cross”. St. Enmegahbowh’s services of purification and communion are now at 10:30 a.m. at the CHUM (Churches United in Ministry) drop-in center in downtown Duluth.
On the day of the first service (August 26) that St. Enmegahbowh’s clergy held at CHUM in Duluth, Bishop Mark MacDonald (Duluth native, former Minnesota priest, former Bishop of Alaska and now Bishop of the native Anglican peoples of Canada) was able to meet the Rev. Annie Henninger at the CHUM Drop-in Center before the service to pick up more Ojibwe Prayer Books to take to villagers in Canada.
The Rev. Jeff Nelson found the original prayer book, which was a joint project of St. Enmegahbowh’s and the diocesan Department of Indian Work (DIW) that facilitated the reprinting. Bishop MacDonald shared this information with Rev. Annie and Rev. Jeff in the oral tradition and we asked him to please write the information to share. The text that follows is from his recent e-mail.
“Recently, the Diocese of Minnesota republished the one edition version of The Book of Common Prayer in Ojibwe and The Ojibwa Hymnal. This news was received with great interest by the people of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church on Walpole Island First Nation in Canada. Edward Kah-O-Sed, so instrumental to this work and to the Diocese of Duluth and, later, the Diocese of Minnesota, was born and raised at Walpole and, to this day, many of his relatives live there.
The Prayer Book and Hymnal combination was unknown at Walpole and, with the help of The Rev. Annie Henninger, Bishop MacDonald was able to secure them a copy. Most of the Indigenous Prayer Books in Canada are written in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and Kah-O-Sed’s version will be more accessible to folks working on language preservation and restoration at Walpole.”