Christ Church Cathedral and the St. Charles Street car
The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana will hold its Electing Convention tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 5). Please pray that the Holy Spirit may fill the minds and hearts of the delegates as they gather at Christ Church Cathedral to choose our next bishop.
The website of the diocese is posting the results as they come from the floor of the convention.
How I pray that if the Bishop Elect isn´t ¨from around here¨...he´s from way far away (think otherside of the World)...accents are nice, you´ve got plenty of them around your diocese...be fair.
ReplyDeleteI send you, in the Spirit, Hymn 502, and lots of love.
ReplyDeleteLen, the Spirit will be the guide. But I pray that the Spirit guides the delegates away from a certain candidate. That's all I'll say about my preferences at this point.
ReplyDeleteLovely, Paul. Thanks.
O Holy Spirit, by whose breath,
life rises vibrant out of death;
come to create, renew, inspire;
come, kindle in our hearts your fire.
Good luck. Our turn next weekend. The Holy Spirit can be a flighty bird.
ReplyDeletePrayers for guidance to all who are voting.
ReplyDeleteSo many prayers going up! (For you too, Lapin...)
ReplyDeleteYou and your Diocese are in my prayers today.
ReplyDeletePrayers that your new bishop is elected to serve not indoctrinate and that he prefers Jesus to Paul for guidance.
ReplyDeleteThank you all.
ReplyDeletePray for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, too, as the delegates choose a second suffragan today after electing the first woman bishop in the diocese yesterday, the Rev'd Canon Diane Jardine Bruce.
Prayers for your diocese. We elected a new bishop in the Diocese of Georgia in September. It seems that the Holy Spirit was working in the delegates. After only two votes, we had elected a new bishop, Scott Benhase from Washington, D.C.
ReplyDeleteTwo Auntees, I know. Scott Benhase was a wonderful choice.
ReplyDeleteDidn't realize that Stand Firm's Jackie Bruchi is in your diocese, but it appears that she is, and she's in New Orleans, running an ongoing report and total on the balloting. Believe this will be of interest to you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Lapin. I was pleased to see in the comments that Bp. Smith may have slipped up by admitting that his wife prefers to stay in Minnesota. He must have made that statement when he met with the other group at the walkabout.
ReplyDeleteThompson is ahead, but Smith is second and is way too close for comfort.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to shout out to my delegates to cast their votes for Thompson on the next round, if they voted for someone else on the first vote. I believe that none of them will vote for Smith.
The diocese is also posting the results.
ReplyDeleteThompson and Smith both gained votes in the second round, but Thompson is pulling further ahead. Yay!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I take nothing for granted, so you pray-ers, please continue to pray.
Just saw Thompson was elected. The Holy Spirit must have really been at work there.
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