From the Diocese of Quincy web site.Members of the Cathedral parish of the Diocese of Quincy voted Thursday night to not be “realigned” or “removed” to the Anglican province of the Southern Cone in a 181 to 35 vote. The vote to stay within The Episcopal Church dwarfs the 54 layperson votes cast at the recent Synod of the Diocese of Quincy that purported to remove the Diocese from The Episcopal Church.
The Reverend Canon John Blossom, a member of the group working to reorganize the Diocese said “This group intends to remain faithful to the Christian faith in spite of allegations by those who have left The Episcopal Church for a new version of Anglicanism that to remain faithful to the Christian faith is to leave.” Full communion with the traditional Anglican connection to the See of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Canterbury is a cornerstone of the group organizing the meeting.
The Very Reverend Bob Dedmon, Dean of the Cathedral parish said after the Cathedral parish vote, “This vote demonstrates that when people have an opportunity to study the facts they realize that the information disseminated by the ultra-conservative leadership of the Diocese was misleading. Now this parish must get on with our Christian mission and ministry.”
A meeting at St. Paul's Cathedral in Peoria on December 13 will review options to stay with the more than 90 Dioceses and over 2 million Episcopalians remaining within The Episcopal Church.
http://episcopaldioceseofquincy.ning.com/forum/topics/st-pauls-cathedral-vote
3 comments:
At one time Trinity Cathedral also opposed Duncan. Bach Choir is singing Handel's Israel in Egypt there this weekend. For dress tonight I'm wearing my rabble rouser tee even tho I know there will be noone to appreciate it. "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor Bishops, nor the Anglican Communion can separate us from the love of Christ." Since it was one of the originals, it says ECUSA.
To anyone local who reads your blog, I'd like to extend an invitation to the concert tomorrow at 8 and Sunday at 4. The performance will be worth the effort. Israel in Egypt is one of the "funnest" pieces in the choral repertoire and definitely a favorite of mine.
(The word id is stshado. Wonder who St Shado was. snicker.)
What! The information was "misleading"? Say it isn't so (tongue in cheek)! I do believe that many people in Ft. Worth are going to discover the same when they take their heads out of the sand.
pseudo I 'll try to make it but tomorrow. The roads were bad south of the city.
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