Friday, July 13, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Después de rechazar tres enmiendas que les presentaron, los diputados aceptaron, el 12 de julio, el presupuesto 2019-2021 y lo remitieron a la Cámara de Obispos para su consideración. Los obispos actuaron minutos después,...
Friday, July 13, 2018
Sandra Montes canta durante el culto de avivamiento en Austin el 7 de julio. Foto cortesía de Thompson/Diócesis de Alta Carolina del Sur. [Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Durante la 79ª. Convención General, Sandra Montes ha sido una de las voces más destacadas...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The 79thGeneral Convention passed three resolutions brought to convention the Commission on Impairment and Leadership, which refers to intervention, evaluation and possible re-entry or action needed related to various...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
“We do not come in hatred, we do not come in bigotry, we do not come to put anybody down, we come to lift everybody up. We come in love,” Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered in prayer at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Taylor,...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] House of Deputies passed five more resolutions July 12 related to the Episcopal Church’s response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but those resolutions faced a mixed reaction in the House of Bishops a day after the bishops...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Both houses of General Convention on July 12 adopted a resolution that allows all congregations in the Episcopal Church to use optional, expansive-language versions of three Rite II Eucharistic prayers in the 1979 Book of...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
The following is the text of the sermon that Brother Aiden Owen, Holy Cross Monastery, Episcopal Diocese of New York, preached at the General Convention Eucharist on July 11, 2018. In the name of the one God who is lover, beloved, and love overflowing. (Amen.) What...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] The House of Bishops on July 12 approved a resolution to develop and implement a “shareholder engagement plan” to guide dioceses, churches and individual Episcopalians investing in gun manufacturers and retailers to change...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] After rejecting all three amendments put to them, deputies on July 12 accepted the proposed 2019-2021 budget and sent it to the House of Bishops for their consideration. The bishops acted minutes later, approving the budget in...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] En una abrumadora votación de viva voz, los diputados concordaron el 11 de julio con un nuevo plan para una revisión litúrgica y del libro de oración que había sido adoptado por la Cámara de Obispos el día anterior. Esto...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
[Episcopal News Service – Austin, Texas] Much happens each day during General Convention. To complement Episcopal News Service’s primary coverage, we have collected some additional news items from July 12. ‘Everything is going okay’ despite record number of...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
The Rev. Canon Michael Buerkel Hunn, chair of the 79th General Convention Worship Committee, offers this apology in recognition of the pain our liturgical language may at times inflict. In reference to the Christian Conference of Asia hymn “God of the Galaxies,”...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
The following is the text of the sermon that the Rev. Winnie Varghese, Trinity Wall Street, Episcopal Diocese of New York, preached at the General Convention Eucharist on July 10, 2018. Please be seated. If you’re from the Diocese of New York, you’ll know that our...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Voici le texte du message délivré par l’évêque primat Michael Curry lors de la Prière de vision, témoignage et justice, à proximité du centre de détention T. Don Hutto de Taylor (Texas) le 8 juillet 2018. Vous trouverez l’enregistrement vidéo...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Le texte qui suit est le sermon que l’Évêque Prince Singh, Diocèse épiscopale de Rochester, a prononcé à la Convention générale le 9 juillet 2018. Que les paroles de ma bouche et le murmure de mon cœur soient agréés en ta présence, Seigneur, mon roc et mon défenseur....