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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
National Prayer Service This Morning-- Live Feed Available [Updated]
As part of Inauguration week events, a National Prayer Service was held this morning at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Here is the list of approximately 20 clergy from a wide variety of faith traditions as released last week by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. In addition to a broad spectrum of Christian and Jewish denominations, Muslim and Hindu clergy will also participate. The prayer service which began at 10:00 am and was streamed live online. The National Cathedral has posted the official program for the prayer service which contains the music and readings that were part of the service. YouTube (Part 1; Part 2) has videos of much of the sermon delivered by Rev. Sharon E. Watkins (see prior posting).