The Family
Posted by Tonia Ferguson
on Dec 11, 2014
In recognition of Rotary's focus on family in December, Rotarians invited the Reverend Angela Palacious to provide words of hope and encouragement.
The Rev. Angela Bosfield Palacious, born in Nassau, was the first female Bahamian deacon (1999) and priest (2000) in the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (1974) in English from Durham University, England); a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (1975) from Homerton College, Cambridge, England; a Master of Arts degree (1978) in English from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; a Master of Divinity degree (1984) and a Master of Theology degree (1985), from Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA; a Certificate in Anglican Studies (1994) from General Theological Seminary, New York, USA; and a honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Sojourner-Douglass College, awarded in Nassau in 2004. She has won several awards.
She has published several books of meditations. Her latest publication Praying for Families available from the author and is in several local stores. Rev. Angela is the Anglican Hospital Chaplain and in the past served in Nassau as the Assistant Priest at St Mary the Virgin Church and St. Margaret’s Church, a short interim as Priest-in-Charge Epiphany Church, and as the diocesan ministry coordinator (Diocese 2000 and Beyond) for ten years.
Leaving a lasting impression, she reminded the Rotarians that a stable nation has its ties to a stable family structure. It is within the family that nurturing and a sense of self and life purpose is realized. She also noted that once an individual is nurtured in the home and has a strong core of moral standards and principles, crime within our country would witness a decrease.
