IKAR Rabbi Sharon Brous Offers Prayer at National Inaugural Prayer Service
Los Angeles IKAR Rabbi Sharon Brous was one of the faith leaders offering prayers to the new Presidential administration on Jan. 21.
The virtual interfaith service, hosted by the Washington National Cathedral, included prayers from several leaders from all religious backgrounds and performances by Patti LaBelle, Josh Groban, Donald Lawrence and Company and Detroit gospel group The Clark Sisters.
Brous spoke about the excitement of a new presidential term and the restoration of democracy.
“Give us strength, God, as we usher in the dawn of a new America, a justice-driven, multiracial democracy,” Brous said. “A new America, that lifts up the poor and protects those most vulnerable. Help us today to imagine a new America that leaves behind the fallacy of profit over people, and instead affirms that every one of us deserves to live in full dignity.”
Bishop William J. Barber II, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, preaches a homily as part of the Washington National Cathedral s virtual presidential inaugural prayer service on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. | Screengrab: Facebook/Greenleaf Christian Church DOC
Bishop William J. Barber II, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, warned President Joe Biden and others listening to the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service Thursday against issuing “simplistic calls for unity. The progressive leader called for repentance of “policy sin.”
The day after the inauguration, as with past transitions of power in the United States, the Washington National Cathedral hosted the National Prayer Service, also called the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service.
| Updated: Jan. 21, 2021, 1:35 a.m.
Four years ago, Mormon Women for Ethical Government did not exist women formed it to address concerns after President Donald Trump took office. Now the group’s leader is among leaders of faith-based groups invited to participate in President-elect Joe Biden’s Inaugural Prayer Service on Thursday.
Emma Petty Addams, executive director of the group, said she will participate in the offering of a liturgical prayer at the event in the National Cathedral in Washington.
She is among 31 leaders of faith-based groups invited to join Biden by participating in prayers, readings, blessings and hymns.
Others on the list include the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington; the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of the Washington National Cathedral; and Archbishop Elpidophoros, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Covid Christmas: Packed church wait-lists, live-streamed services and increased giving washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Twitter Facebook
When 2020 began, no one could have imagined it would end with a world turned upside down by a virus no one had ever heard of, a virus that has now claimed the lives of close to two million people, more than 300,000 in the United States alone. Social distancing, mask wearing, and hand sanitizing took on a new urgency.
Here at BU, COVID-19 forced the University to quickly adapt to a remote learning model immediately following spring break in March. A massive testing and contact tracing system implemented by the University this summer allowed students to return to campus for the fall semester for a combination of in-person and remote learning, dubbed Learn