The Mothers’ Union of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago marked the 90th anniversary of its founding in grand style this summer.
Members came to a 10am church service at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Port-of-Spain, on Satuday June 11, the Feast of St Barnabas. The Right Revd Calvin Bess, the bishop diocesan, presided.
The MU in the diocese was founded on June 11, 1921, with a branch at the All Saints’ Church, Newton. Mothers’ Union members from across the diocese; from Barbados and the Windward Islands in the Province of the West Indies; and from the Episcopal (Anglican) Church in the United States of America; gathered at City Hall on Knox Street and, walking behind their respective banners, processed to the cathedral by way of Frederick, Hart and Abercromby Streets in a scene that was reminiscent of the procession for the consecration of Bishop Coadjutor Claude Berkley on March 17.
The Diocesan President for the Mothers’ Union, Phyllis Raghunanan, held the main banner as she led her members to the cathedral.
From the 200th edition of The Anglican Outlook, The newspaper of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad & Tobago