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Presiding Bishop hosts live Web cast
On October 16 Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori hosted a live Web cast featuring her comments on the recent House of Bishops meeting and Q & A with the PB via phone and e-mail.
Some highlights from Episcopal Life Online [ELO, www.episcopalchurch.org/elife/]:
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'There will be no outcasts in this Church,' Presiding Bishop
tells live Web cast audience
Jefferts Schori reflects on Church's mission, House of Bishops
meeting
By Daphne Mack
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Web cast anchor the Rev. Jan Nunley with the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori [©2007 Episcopal Life Online] |
Opening with an overview of the mission-driven September 20-25 House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori set the tone October 16 for her second Web cast held at the studio facilities of Trinity Church, Wall Street, in New York City.
"We met intentionally in New Orleans, as an act of solidarity with the people of Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf coast, so that we might represent the prayers and concern of the whole church, and offer a small contribution to the rebuilding effort," Jefferts Schori said in her opening remarks of the one-hour webcast, anchored by the Rev. Jan Nunley, executive editor of Episcopal Life Media. "We were told that 100,000 housing units were lost during Katrina and its aftermath, displacing nearly 250,000 people. Of those housing units, only about 4,000 have been made habitable once again." . . .
She described the first part of the meeting as "an opportunity for the bishops to hear from our Anglican Communion visitors, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to share our own joys and concerns with them."
"We heard some challenging words about different contexts around the Communion, and shared our own. We discovered, as we did in our labors in New Orleans and Mississippi, the reality and depth of our interconnectedness," she explained. "When one part of the body suffers, all suffer. When one part rejoices, the spirits of all are lifted."
She said the
statement that was produced in the latter part of the
meeting represented "a remarkable consensus among the bishops."
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[ENS] Presiding Bishops opening remarks at October 16 Web cast
The text of Bishop Jefferts Schori's opening remarks is available here.
You may view the Web cast on demand here.