Diocesan Update - March 5, 2010
As many of you know, there has been a great deal of discussion throughout the Anglican Communion about the proposed Anglican Covenant. At our Diocesan Convention last year, I stated it is important that we study the Covenant to have a better understanding of what it is and what it is not. To assist us in these discussions, I’ve asked our Canon Theologian, The Very Rev. Dr. Cn. Christopher Brown, to share with us his understanding of the Covenant and its implications for us as individuals, as parishes, as a diocese, and as a church. A DVD of his presentation is being mailed today to each parish in the Diocese. The mailer is addressed to the Clergy, Churchwardens, and Vestry of the parish. Where there is no clergy assigned, it is addressed to the Churchwardens and Vestry. Please be on the lookout for it in your mail box.
Convention Weekend Registration forms for adults and youth are available at http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org/ministries/convention. Online registration will be available soon (change in bank credit card software requires changes on our end which are being made and tested as this email goes out). Rates are the same as last year!
Parishes are reminded that they need to mail their Convention 2010 Certificates of Election of Convention deputies and alternates to the Archdeacon Harvey Huth, Secretary of the Diocese, at his home address: 12 Bloomer Rd, Voorheesville, NY 12186. These are due by April 9 th. The form is in the Call to Convention which is available online.
The Diocesan Holy Hour - Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament - for the month of March will take place on Thursday, March 11 at 10:30 am in Saint Mary's Chapel at the CSM Convent in Greenwich. Lunch ($8.50+tax) is available following the Holy Hour in the Trinity Dining Room of the Spiritual Life Center.
Dcn Joe Acanfora will be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, March 27 at Christ Church, Gilbertsville (166 Marion Avenue, aka State Highway 51), and will be inducted as their rector.The service begins at 11 AM. Clergy: alb with red stole.
The Great Chapter of the Cathedral of All saints cordially invites you to Solemn Evensong on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 2 May 2010, at 3:30 in the afternoon to honor the priestly ministry of The Very Reverend Marshall J. Vang as nineteenth Dean. His retires on June 1 st. Clergy are invited to process and sit in the choir. Vesture is cassock, surplice, tippet, and hood.
The Clergy of the Metropolitan Deanery will honor Dean Vang at their clericus on March 18th at noon at St. Paul’s, Troy. All clergy of the Metropolitan Deanery are invited, and lunch will be provided. RSVP to Fr. Gorchov at frmichael@stpaulstroy.org .
We will have a regional confirmation service at St. George’s, Clifton Park on Saturday, May 8 th at 4:30 PM. Those being confirmed or received should plan on meeting with the Bishop at 3:30. Please contact Canon Carroll at jcarroll@diocese.org by April 12 if you are planning to present individuals for confirmation or reception and how many. Full names of those to be confirmed and/or received (separate lists) are due by April 26. Please send the names to Ray Rockwell at rrockwell@albanydiocese.org and Tim George at tgeorge@albanydiocese.org .
Please keep Mary Denney, wife of Cn Curtis Denney, in your prayers as she recovers from knee replacement surgery. She is at the Hepburn Rehab Center in Ogdensburg for a few days before going home.
Please keep Father Hap Carrier in your daily prayers. He is foregoing further chemotherapy for his pancreatic cancer and is preparing for home hospice care.
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