Meanwhile, two bishop advisers are in Charleston to address pastoral concerns of the rectors and the congregations, Waldo said.
“They are not provisional bishops. They are just advisers,” Waldo said. “Right now with Mark’s restriction on ministry and the lack of recognition of the (diocesan) standing committee, there is a vacuum in ecclesiastical authority from the perspective of the Episcopal Church. I think pastoral care is being provided as best they can as they try to discern what’s next.”
In the Upper Diocese, Waldo said, “We have been calling to prayer over this for some time and will continue to do so.”
“I recognized there are many in our congregations who have relatives or friends or who attend affected churches in the lower diocese at various times of the year who are deeply concerned and in quite a bit of spiritual pain over what has happened and the brokenness.”
Is a curtain falling across SC ? Both dioceses under the same SC Supreme court ruling, but Upper SC remaining unoted while SC fragmenting. What is going on ? Statmann
TEc apartheid, Statman. The Gozpell of Kate&Beers; versus the Gospel. The usual. Except the DioUpperSC has swallowed the Kool-Aid.