“We have been given a similar opportunity to demonstrate that lovingkindness and sense of appreciation of the value of our neighbors’ lives. We have the opportunity to live by grace—in humble acknowledgement of the grace we ourselves have received, honestly acknowledging the profligate love that is at the root of such radical acceptance and forbearance.”
“We want to say to everybody in Maine that we trust public health leaders who say to us that the vaccine is the best tool we have to curb this pandemic,” Brown told RNS. “And if we could somehow do our part, assure them that our clergy leaders are going to do what we can to keep them safe, it becomes a message of liberation.”
For the bishops of the Church of Wales to “say that same-sex couples are “unable” to marry in church is a bit like me having my front door key in my pocket, trying to open the door without it, and saying that I am “unable” to do so.”
“Think about it. Some ancestor somewhere and sometime must have appreciated a single note or sound emitted from rough wood or metal and passed that appreciation and invention to another person, and to another generation, until at last an actual instrument took shape and form and capacity for scales.”
I am therefore directing all members of the diocesan staff, and all of you — clergy serving pastorally or sacramentally in any congregation in the Diocese of Maine — to be vaccinated unless you have been directed by a physician not to do so. Please click on this form to attest to your vaccination status.
“The Lord walks with us:
in our streets, along country roads,
in our classrooms, down hallways,
on playgrounds, and on the fields.”
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A man has filed suit against the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and two churches alleging that as a boy he was sexual abused by the Rev. Paul Wancura from 1978 to 1985. The suit filed in State Supreme Court seeks $20 million in damages.
“As it turns out, “music of the spheres” comes from the phrase Musica universalis, and is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies – the sun, moon and planets – as a form of music.”
You can book a night of champing in the deconsecrated church of St Cyriac & St Julitta in Swaffham Prior, UK. The medieval building with Georgian interior includes camp beds and chair, tea and coffee.