Posted on 05/14/2018 10:48:03 AM PDT by ethom
The first senior African-American bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church has been asked to preach a sermon at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this coming Saturday.
Kensington Palace has announced that Prince Harry and Markle have asked The Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, the head of the Episcopal Church, to preach at the highly-anticipated wedding at Windsor Castle.
"Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle have asked that The Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, give the address at their wedding," the Palace stated in a tweet on May 12.
The invitation has been seen as a break from tradition, as addresses at royal weddings are usually delivered by senior clergy from the Church of England.
Curry, who became the first African-American presiding bishop following his election in 2015, acknowledged the request in a statement.
"The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness. And so we celebrate and pray for them today," he said.
The American pastor will be joining Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who will be officiating the wedding ceremony, and Reverend David Conner, who will be conducting the service.
Welby said in a statement that he was pleased by the couple's decision to ask Curry to deliver the address at the nuptial.
"I'm thrilled that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have asked Bishop Michael Curry to preach at their wedding. @PB_Curry is a brilliant pastor, stunning preacher and someone with a great gift for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ," Welby tweeted.
Curry became popular in 2012 after he preached the sermon that came to be known as "We need some crazy Christians."
The bishop argued that Jesus was once thought to be of unsound mind and said that Christians need to follow his example.
"They thought he was crazy! And he was! He is!" said Curry, who was serving as bishop of North Carolina at the time. "And those who would follow in his footsteps, those who would be his disciples, are called and summoned and challenged to be just as crazy as Jesus".
Apart from his popular sermon, Curry is also known for his support for immigration reform as well as his advocacy for gay marriage and transgender rights.
When it comes to this stuff...never,never, NEVER question nor contradict me! No, I don't everything; however, I certainly know far more than YOU do and what I know are FACTS!
That divorced royal couple has apparently been living together for the past several years. Apparently this couple is extremely hopeful that the person in the most ill of health in the family passes away soon.
There are multiple reasons for this horrible wish. It is that person who has kept the female in the divorced couple away from public events. It is also that person who has refused to reinstate allowances for the children of the couple.
That person is of the belief that the children should be working. The divorced male in the relationship has been threatening that the kids will start earning money doing reality television and all kinds of other untoward things if the allowances are not reinstated. http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/12/blind-item-10_27.html
She's nor her family are paying one red cent, so HELL NO, it's NOT exactly "their wedding" and yet they are doing EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO destroy TRADITIONS and proper/correct behavior for a Royal wedding.
It’s Harry...not like he’s the biggest catch out there. He’d be happy to spend all his days in Africa.
The Queen and Prince Charles are and have been paying for EVERYTHING for Harry & Markle, since this who thing began!
Both Beatrice and her sister Eugenie have had jobs since each graduated from college! And Randy Andy HAS been helping to support the girls!
Fergie was in deep debt several years ago and to make money, went on QVC ( whatever that is ) and sold stuff.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN ADD OR CUT DOWN, KICK OFF A ROYAL FROM THE LIST OF WHO GETS TAX PAYER MONEY IS QUEEN ELIZABETH II !
Oh I've seen/read that site a few times and it's just people GUESSING!
Are you also a Q CULTIST as well? LOL
Markle tel,ls him what he's allowed and NOT allowed to do and Harry, being one of THE stupidest of the Royals ( though I question his paternity ! ), just goes along with it all.
Earlier, he threw a temper tantrum and threatened to leave "THE FIRM"; too bad the Queen didn't just allow him to do that.
The plan is to have the 'Magnificant Seven' Queen, Phillip, Charles, Camilla, Harry, Kate, Meghan etc take control of the royal household and shut out the others...
Well that’s what I mean....it’s just Harry. ..and I doubt she’ll hang around once the novelty of Royalty wears thin...she doesn’t strike me as one who commits for very long if at all. Likely if Harry didn’t have the royal decorations she wouldn’t have considered.
I wondered if the genes would be such they’d have dark kids with red curly hair!
Not going to argue you there.
William and Kate are the nice couple you see at Whole Foods. Harry reminds me of the crazy nuts that live around me.
Though the latter are much more fun.
At 96 and ill for quite some time, I highly doubt that he's doing/saying much of anything at all these days. He just got out of the hospital and looks awful after his hip surgery.
Phillip HATES Camilla and has done so since the 1960s!It was the Queen, who finally accepted the fact that Camilla has ALWAYS been Char;es' one true and undying love and allowed that marriage.
I don't care WHERE you got the utter CRAP about "MAGNIFICENT SEVEN"; it's still nothing but imagined rumor/TRIPE!
Genetically...re Gregor Mendel's theories...it is VERY possible for at least one of their progeny could have rather dark skin, Negroid features, and yes, red hair and any combination in between. :-)
OTOH...she's 36, has been on weird diets for many years, is bullemic skinny, so she might have a problem getting preggers.
Harry is STUPID, was a lousy student, a VERY "WILD CHILD" well into his 30s, and never had any common sense nor a control over himself. And don't forget that his mother was an emotionally and mentally unstable person.
:-)
I'm not quite sure I believe that. Incidentally, if I'm not mistaken, Shakespeare got his take on Richard from Thomas More.
Shakespeare wrote several plays putting the Tudor's in a "good light". It was all PROPAGANDA and trying to earn the "good will" of the current monarch and those who supported their somewhat sketchy claim to the throne. This was a very usual/normal thing to do, back then; just as it is with our MSM today, except that our MSM and "culture" ONLY supports one side, whether they are in power or not.
There has been many investigations and studies, in the ensuing centuries, absolutely NONE of them proving a single thing against Richard!
Let’s see if they push wedding cake in each other’s face.
Thomas More was the ward of Bishop John Morton - Richard the Third’s mortal enemy. Unlike the Tudors, the Plantagenets would not execute clery who, like Morton, indulged in treason. So sadly, he was never imprisoned or executed for treason against the king. He’s the famed Morton of the despicable Morton’s Fork devised by the devious and rapacious Henry 7. Undoubtedly, Morton filled young More’s head with his gossip. More went on to write a satire based on Richard the Third (which he never published). Found among his papers on his death, it was used to abuse Richard the Third and the Plantagenets.
If you believe that Richard the Third was in his mother’s womb for two years and was born with hair down to his shoulders and a full set of teeth, More is your man.
More politically correct BS. Big mistake Prince Harry.
LOL...frankly, I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past old Miss Rachel Markle...not even the Chicken Dance or something worse!
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