Readings:
Psalm 71:17-24
Isaiah 60:1-5
1 John 2:12-14
Luke 7:11-17Preface of All Saints
PRAYER (traditional language)
O God, the shepherd of all, we offer thanks for the lifelong commitment of thy servant John Raleigh Mott to the Christian nurture of students in many parts of the world; and we pray that, after his example, we may strive for the weaving together of all peoples in friendship, fellowship and cooperation, and while life lasts be evangelists for Jesus Christ, in whom alone is our peace; and who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
PRAYER (contemporary language)
O God, the shepherd of all, we give you thanks for the lifelong commitment of your servant John Raleigh Mott to the Christian nurture of students in many parts of the world; and we pray that, after his example, we may strive for the weaving together of all peoples in friendship, fellowship and cooperation, and while life lasts be evangelists for Jesus Christ, in whom alone is our peace; and who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
This commemoration was approved provisionally at General Convention 2009.
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JOHN MOTT
EVANGELIST AND ECUMENICAL PIONEER,
3 October 1955
John
Raleigh Mott (May
25, 1865 - January
31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the
World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). He received the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international
Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace.
From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF. In 1910,
Mott, an American Methodist layperson, presided at the 1910 World Missionary
Conference, which launched both the modern Protestant missions movement
and some say the modern ecumenical movement. From 1920 until 1928 he was
the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in both missions and ecumenism,
as well as for peace, some historians consider him to be "the most widely
traveled and universally trusted Christian leader of his time". Intimately
involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948, that
body elected him as a life-long honorary President. His best-known book,
The Evangelization
of the World in this Generation, became a missionary slogan in
the early 20th century.
(more from Wikipedia & the Nobel Foundation)