Readings:
Psalm 31:19-24
Zechariah 1:7-11
Revelation 14:13-16
Matthew 8:5-13Preface of a Saint (3)
[Common of a Monastic or Professed Religious]
[Of the Incarnation]
[For the Ministry III]
PRAYER (traditional language)
Loving God, we bless thy Name for the witness of Ini Kopuria, founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood: Open our eyes that we, with these Anglican brothers, may establish peace and hope in service to others; for the sake of Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER (contemporary language)
Loving God, we bless your Name for the witness of Ini Kopuria, founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood: Open our eyes that we, with these Anglican brothers, may establish peace and hope in service to others; for the sake of Jesus Christ, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This commemoration appears in A Great Cloud of Witnesses.
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INI KOPURIA
FOUNDER OF THE MELANESIAN BROTHERHOOD, 1945
Ini Kopuria (died 1945), a police officer from Maravovo, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands formed the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, realised Ini's dream by forming a band of brothers (known in the Mota language as 'Ira Reta Tasiu') to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the non-Christian areas of Melanesia. He is commemorated in the calendars of the Church of the Province of Melanesia and of the Church of England.
— from Wikipedia
More information on him and the Melanesian Brotherhood may be found on Project Canterbury.