SAINT JAMES' EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DANBURY CT
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Episcopalians United Against Gun Violence

​From Bishops United Against Gun Violence: "As Christians, we must work actively to dismantle the systemic racism that is part of our country’s founding narrative and that continues to fuel mass shootings and urban gun violence today. We must insist that both our fellow Christians and our elected leaders repudiate white supremacy and white nationalism and embrace humane immigration policies that follow God’s command and the Biblical imperative to welcome the stranger in our midst. And we must refuse to participate in scapegoating people with mental illness, a ploy too often used to distract from the urgent yet simple need to enact common sense gun safety measures."
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Why do we wear Orange as a symbol of Gun Violence Awareness
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Orange was chosen to symbolize the value of human life and is worn as a signal that wearers do not want to be the next victim of gun violence. The idea comes from hunters, who wear the color to alert fellow hunters to their presence in densely wooded areas.

Orange ribbons are available in the back of the church

Resources
Bishops Against Gun Violence
Episcopal Church Policies on Gun Control                                    


Connecticut Against Gun Violence
Prayers of the People

​The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

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“Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred let me bring your love,
Where there is injury your pardon Lord,
And where there’s doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.

O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.

O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
And to love as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.

Make me a channel of your peace.”

  • Welcome
    • God's Mission, Our Purpose
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    • Vestry
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    • Annual Reports
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    • Baptism
    • Confirmation
    • Weddings
    • Funerals
  • God's Mission
    • In the Church >
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    • In our Neighborhood
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