The diocese of Southern Virginia has opted to find a new location for the consecration of their next bishop, Susan Haynes, after the Roman Catholic church which had agreed to host was the subject of much ire
“It would have been easy for him to allow himself to be the visitor’s intercessor, to put himself in the position of the holy man with special connections to God–yet he did not. As harsh and jarring as Antony’s response might be, he displayed his own humility by pushing his visitor to take his own journey with God. Feeling God’s connection to us often is strongest when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable enough to both wail at God and rail at God.”