From ENS-
A traditional annual Chrism Mass, in which clergy renew their ordination vows and anointing oils are blessed, took on a historic note April 14 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem Bishop Paul Marshall invited the Rev. Samuel R. Zeiser, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, and the Rev. David E. Bennett, president of the Eastern District of the Moravian Church in North America, to join him in celebrating the Mass at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
"This is history being made," Marshall wrote in his invitation to diocesan members to participate in the gathering.
According to Marshall and others, this was the first time that Episcopal, Lutheran and Moravian clergy concelebrated a Eucharist since the Episcopal Church and the Moravian Church in North America inaugurated their full-communion agreement on Feb. 10. The Episcopal Church and the ELCA are celebrating 10 years of full communion this year. Moravians and Lutherans marked a similar anniversary in 2010.
Marshall presided at the service and Bennett and Zeiser assisted in distributing the bread and wine.
With Marshall seated, the clergy crowded around him in the chancel and on the chancel steps to renew their ordination vows. Then Marshall, who has been Bethlehem's bishop for almost 15 years said: "I, too, before God and you, rededicate myself and reaffirm the premises that I made when I was ordained. I ask your prayers."
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