Integrity celebrates with the Diocese of Los Angeles and the whole church today at the ordinations of Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce and Bishop Mary Douglas Glasspool. This history making day is another important step forward toward the full inclusion of all the baptized in the work and witness of the Episcopal Church, and Integrity is honored to have been part of it.
“As we celebrate these ordinations today, we also celebrate the hard work and persistent activism of Integrity over the last 35 years,” said President David Norgard. “Here in Long Beach today we are not only reaping the fruit of the work of those who have gone before us–we are planting the seeds for fuller inclusion throughout the whole church.”
Also present at the festive ordination service were past-presidents of Integrity, including Bruce Garner (Atlanta), Kim Byham (Newark), and Susan Russell (Los Angeles). “As a daughter of this diocese [I] could not be more proud that Los Angeles has responded to the call to be a headlight instead of taillight on full inclusion,” said Russell. “Today the first woman Presiding Bishop in the history of the Anglican Communion ordained the first two women bishops in the history of the Diocese of Los Angeles…and the fact that one of them is a lesbian is not an ‘issue’ but an opportunity for us to better incarnate the wholeness of God’s abundant and inclusive love.”
Today is a day for celebration. And tomorrow Integrity will get back to work toward the day when the gender, orientation, identity or race of a bishop for the Church of God is no longer an “issue.” For anybody. And for the time when all the sacraments will be fully available to all the baptized. For everybody
How very sad for them. They deserve prayer for their needs are far more great than they realize.
Intercessor
[blockquote]And for the time when all the sacraments will be fully available to all the baptized. For everybody [/blockquote]
Unfortunately for them, and the people that they lead astray, the consequences of sin are available – in fact [i] inevitable[/i] – “for everybody”, until of course you repent of that sin, and accept God’s forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
It just makes me weep.
Improper matter and intention do not make a valid consecration in any form used.
This one will be like the male one,alleged to be a “bishop” and not recognized by the Anglican Communion.
Neither of these women is a real bishop, and neither is Katherine Jefferts Schori.
Umm, the sacraments have always been available to all baptized and confirmed Anglican Christians, so where does Integrity get the notion that they haven’t? We turn no one away if he or she is a confirmed believer in Christ as their Savior, the last I heard.
RE: “And tomorrow Integrity will get back to work toward the day when the gender, orientation, identity or race of a bishop for the Church of God is no longer an “issue.” For anybody. . . . ”
Heh. [Yawn . . . ]
RE: “Integrity celebrates with the Diocese of Los Angeles and the whole church . . .”
Lol. Well . . . a very very very teensy organization, that is . . . guess it depends on what is meant by “the whole church.” Not by my church over here in DUSC. Not by thousands of people in TEC. And in fact, not even by those who believe the Christian gospel in the Diocese of Los Angeles — and there are plenty of those too.
Man — unless this thing was written by Susan Russell I think we can now safely recognize that progressive TEC gay activists are innately grandiosely florid and full of shrill triumphalistic predictions — [never a sign of much security and confidence, I should add]. I’d always thought that kind of artificiality was merely Russell.
Guess not.
Belshazzar’s Feast. Check out the walls.
Well, Frank, with a mere 3,000 people in an arena that holds 13,500, the walls should have been very visible.
Fr. Darin Lovelace+
St. John’s Anglican
Park City, UT
Sarah!
You really need to spend more down time with Gay activisits to truly appreciate “innately grandiosely florid and full of shrill triumphalistic predictions”. I mean…REALLY!!!!
The truly sad thing, this is received as healing affirmation by the sexually broken — ‘I [my desires] are blessed of God.’ ‘This deep lack of fulfillment in my “partnership” isn’t an indicator that my life is wrong.’ And so forth and so on. Worst of all, this builds the wall higher between the emotionally impoverished and the good news of redemption and transformation. Sad. Sad. Sad. Come Lord Jesus and heal your people. The enemy consumes them as though he eats bread.
Very odd to hear a supposed Anglican talking about the sacrament of episcopal consecration being made “available to all.” A call from the Church to Holy Orders is made to very few.
#7 LOL!!! Truly priceless.