Howard Wallace of Camden, who was one of the delegates who chose [Andrew] Waldo, said he seemed to be the most moderate of the candidates and is a good listener.
“I just think he was uniquely called. He seemed the most spiritual, the most relaxed,” Wallace said. “He seemed like he was called more than that he really wanted it.”
Tina Lockhart, also from Camden, said Waldo seems “very prayerful” and that he had told her he was going on a three-day silent retreat at a monastery prior to his consecration.
I’d be interested to hear others’ views on this matter as I don’t want to be an old stick-in-the-mud. But to me both “elaborate” and “four hours” are questionable.
Well, Sutton at WNC with a full church took something like 2 1/2 to 3. The procession alone took half an hour. What did they do, commune the entire diocese?
Fascinating that the newspaper simply repeated the number of attenders given them by whatever diocesan apparatchik, without bothering to actually go to the two [used to be three, but one venue was cancelled] additional venues to see that they weren’t even close to full — 1/3 in one and maybe 1/2 in the other — and without bothering to discover that copious quantities of tickets were *returned to sender* unused.
A generous estimate of attendance was around 1100 — 600 less than expected. The diocese planned for 1700 and trumpeted 1700 in all the news reports — got *maybe* 1100 if that.
In other words, the consecration got about 2/3 of the diocese’s expected attendance.
Ordination inflation … it’s a whole new method of mathematiks!
Yes, it’s a tad like ACNA attendance inflation.