PLEASE PRAY FOR ORMONDE

Feb. 23 I go into Ochsner for a catheter ablation to cure focal atrial tachycardia (rapid heart beat caused by a spot in one of my atria, which fires off odd electrical impulses). The doc will put a catheter up one of my arteries and into the right atrium, locate the pesky spot (if possible), and zap it out of existence. He assured me the procedure was “low risk”—only 1 % die.

Ormonde

Pray that Ormonde is in the 99% (I know he will be!) and that the procedure will be successful in stopping the atrial tachycardia.

Almighty God our heavenly Father, graciously comfort your servant Ormonde in his illness, and bless the means made use of for his cure. Fill his heart with confidence that, though at times he may be afraid, he yet may put his trust in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Ormonde blogs at Through the Dust.

UPDATE: Ormonde Plater says:

I'm back, released from the hospital, and the good doc zapped not one but two bad spots. Thanks for the prayers, everybody.

Excellent news, Ormonde. Prayers of thanksgiving. Thanks for letting us know.

"THE CHURCH...AS A LIVING ORGANISM INCLUDING ALL WHO FOLLOW CHRIST"

Read Ormonde Plater's post at Through the Dust, titled, "A Church in Crisis":

In the early 1960s, as a young man estranged from the Episcopal Church, I followed with great interest the deliberations and decrees of Vatican II. What was especially appealing was the council's theological vision of the church, not as a massive institution with a conservative bureaucracy, but as the people of God, the body of Christ, a living organism including all who follow Christ. Largely as a result of that inspiration, I returned to the Episcopal Church in 1967, bringing my wife and children with me.

Read Ormonde's account of studying for the permanent diaconate in the Episcopal Church at Notre Dame Seminary, a Roman Catholic seminary in New Orleans, during the heady days when the windows opened by John XXIII were still letting in the breeze.