I haven’t blogged the big news in great detail yet, but here it is: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the Episcopal Church, is coming to visit St Nicholas in Elk Grove Village, my parish. She’ll be wearing her pointy hat and carrying her curly stick and all, and we’re over the moon about it, and also now the panic is setting in.
Father Steve wrote a press release, and I’ll be sending various versions of it out to The Media, and area Episcopal and other churches, and probably to area social service agencies and support groups.
The gist is this:
Who: The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
What: She will preacher and preside at Sunday Holy Eucharist
When: Sunday, February 3 at 9AM
Where: St Nicholas Episcopal Church, 1072 Ridge Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL 847- 439-2067
Why: She wanted to worship at a local parish before leaving Chicago, and we’re close to O’Hare.
While I was at it, I designed some stationery for the church today, as I didn’t have a copy to scan. Dead simple with a little clip art of the good saint, who’s been much on my mind lately, given as he’s also the patron of St Nicholas, Atwood, CA. Must remember to send a donation in their name to Remain Episcopal.
++Katharine’s been in the news again – this time, she’s calls the Anglican Communion on double standards on sexuality in an interview with the Beeb. Hey, at least one of our bishops is honest about being a gay man with a partner. There are gay bishops in every Province of the AC, including one guy in the South Pacific somewhere who rather wistfully wishes people would notice him and take the heat off of +V. Gene.
Good on you, Katharine, can’t wait to meet you!
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Good on her for identifying the true “innovation” of TEC as regards sexual orientation: honesty. Who’d have thought the truth could ever be so controversial?
As a copy editor I am of course horrified that the BBC spelled KJS’s first name wrong. They’re the BBC, for goodness sake!
Ach! Sss! Typos, we hates them. We hates them forever.
I was reading the Beeb article just now and missed that one. Thank God I’ve been spelling it right all along. And the Beeb also messed up on a fact: in the US, bishops are elected, not appointed. We can has democracy?