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.
Check mate and nailed in one!
My husband’s family always had the Chicken Dance at weddings. Which is probably why we had a cocktail party reception after City Hall.
Nobody in my family EVER did that at a wedding reception, nor the Hokey Pokey either. And I've NEVER been to a wedding reception that that was done. But I have heard about weddings where it is usually thrown in.
What I find really HORRID and thoughtless, about this train-wreck of a wedding reception, is that NO chairs/no seating, is apparently going to be available, which I can't believe that the Queen has okayed. Many attendees are OLD and Kate just had a baby. I bet there are going to be others who will not be happy about standing around for 2 1/2 hours and being told to "mingle"!
Italian-American families do the Chicken Dance. Not every wedding is Grace Kelly and the Prince of Monaco, you know, lol.
I haven’t been keeping up on the wedding details. I’m so bored with these two I could scream. I wish they’d just break up NOW.
I don't try to "keep up", but it's all over the Daily Mail and other Brit papers and it's hard to miss. :-(
I wish that STUPID Harry had NEVER even met this low class, grasping, greedy, manipulative PHONY! But then, no worthy girl, in her right mind, would probably have him.
Yep.
How about a Viennese Table?
I don’t like those nor am I a big fan of weddings going into the wee hours of the A.M. and being served small hamburgers, hot dogs, bags of popcorn and and/or scrambled eggs. It’s an idiotic idea !
Well, horses for courses, I guess. I enjoy seeing how people celebrate. I just don’t like it when they demand a lot of money (only to get divorced two years later) and then push cake into each other’s faces. Uck-o!
I'm a traditionalist, but refused the whole FEED EACH OTHER THE CAKE bit, at our wedding. No, neither of us would have done the smash cake thing...I just didn't want to do the feed thing.
Oh...and NO garter toss either!
I wore a blue garter, I didn’t throw it. I also didn’t feed the cake. Messes up the lipstick which is very important.
I’m over on another thread handing somebody their head.
didn't know you were a stand up comic. you're racking up those mortal sins tonight I see.
Ok, trolling is disallowed. That is a mortal sin at FR and I’m now going to hit abuse.
Fail to see how this is trolling. If it is you are doing the same.
You posted to me (whether you admit it or not) because you were all over another thread last night doing your usual ping thing. Don’t bring the argument here and interrupt this thread as well.
So what....I posted to you?
It is called an open forum.
You were the one who said you were handing someone their head on another thread. I’m over on another thread handing somebody their head.
You seem to like to dish it out but don't like anyone to give you any push back.
I'm only following your suggestion on your homepage.
NOTE: If you have something negative to say to me, please say it publicly and not on a private message. I only talk to my friends on my private messages here.
Seems you don't want to live up to the advice you give on your homepage.
Perhaps the open forums are not suited for you.
I can give as well as take it. But two things I don’t like: your phony ping list which is not used to point people in the direction of an interesting topic as is the norm here. It is used to gang up on Catholics who don’t adhere to your biblically-correct point of view and run them off the thread. And because an individual on this ping list does not have the intellectual capacity nor the vocabulary to argue, he feels he must have the gang behind him when someone disagrees or puts him in his place. Last night’s thread was NOT in the religious forum but you guys turned it into the usual anti-Catholic nonsense.
And trolling. Which you are doing right now. This is about the royal wedding. It is not about me. It is not about you. Let’s get back to the subject before I have to hit abuse again.
Apparently you can't.
But two things I don’t like: your phony ping list which is not used to point people in the direction of an interesting topic as is the norm here.
I don't have a ping list.
It is used to gang up on Catholics who don’t adhere to your biblically-correct point of view and run them off the thread.
Ganging up on Roman Catholics?? Again, perhaps the open forums are not for you.
And because an individual on this ping list does not have the intellectual capacity nor the vocabulary to argue, he feels he must have the gang behind him when someone disagrees or puts him in his place. Last night’s thread was NOT in the religious forum but you guys turned it into the usual anti-Catholic nonsense.
And once again proving my observation about some, but not all, Roman Catholics.
And trolling. Which you are doing right now. This is about the royal wedding. It is not about me. It is not about you. Let’s get back to the subject before I have to hit abuse again.
Then don't be bragging, incorrectly I might add, about how you were doing something on another thread on this thread.
And you might want to update your home page.
Stop lying about the ping list - I didn’t say you had it; I inferred that you were on it. Which you are. And you guys use it to abuse it and then lie about it.
But two things I don’t like: your phony ping list...
Perhaps you didn't mean your to mean my personal list or perhaps you meant your in the collective sense. I read it to mean my personal ping list.
In either case I don't maintain a ping list and I am not on a ping list, at least that I am aware of, for these kind of discussions.
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