To Bring Peace, We Must Strive for Justice
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Title
To Bring Peace, We Must Strive for Justice
Description
One of the highest costs of this COVID crisis for me is that we have had to suspend the practice of confirmation, the sacrament by which we rediscover, renew, and embrace all over again the spirit within us and the spirit- filled lives, which are our true calling. When I was a parish priest, the bishop would come to my church every other year and we would have confirmation and he would go away again. They were glad to see him come and glad to see him go. But then I became a bishop and confirmation became my life, my almost every Sunday, week after week practice of worship and prayer. At the moment of the act of Confirmation, the candidate kneels before the bishop, seated before the altar, and I reach out and take her head into my hands. It is a close face-to-face intimacy, almost shockingly so, and then I can offer on behalf of the entire church, the prayer that strengthened and defended by God, she will daily increase in the Holy Spirit more and more.
Subject
[don't use] In-person communal gatherings (adapted)
has community
Trinity Church Wall Street
Spatial Coverage
76 Trinity Pl New York, NY 10006
has denomination
Episcopal parish
Format
.docx
Date Submitted
10/4/2020 19:18
