What a day this is!
According to my lovely handbook This Day in Unitarian Universalist History on this day in 1654 the British Parliament declared John Biddle’s unitarian Two-Fold Catechism heretical. All copies were to be collected and burned and Mr Biddle was thrown into prison.
Also, on this day the wonderful Unitarian minister and theologian Frederick Henry Hedge was born in Cambridge, MA. He served our (now) UU congregations in Arlington and Brookline, MA, Bangor, ME & Providence, RI. He also taught at Harvard, holding two different professorships. But most important is his gathering together like-minded Unitarian clergy and intellectuals into a group called by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Hedge Club, and by the rest of the world the Transcendentalist movement… Hedge’s significance to modern religious liberalism probably cannot be overstated.
To this feast comes one more. In the Roman Catholic spiritual calendar this is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As Mary is both the patron of the Americas and my own personal favorite goddess, I just want to tip my hat to this splendiferous manifestation of Quanyin, the overflowing expresssion of compassion from the heart of the universe into our human hearts and minds.
This is a day to celebrate!
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