Posted on 01/02/2011 7:58:44 PM PST by marshmallow
The historic marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, took place today at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston.
The Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts began 2011 by solemnizing the first lesbian marriage - of two senior Episcopalian clergy - at Boston's St Paul's Cathedral Saturday (January 1).
The marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, was the first lesbian marriage solemnized by the Right Reverend M Thomas Shaw SSJE, Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
At the marriage attended by close to 400 guests, Bishop Shaw commented: “God always rejoices when two people who love each other make a life long commitment in marriage to go deeper into the heart of God through each other. It’s a profound pleasure for me to celebrate with God and my friends, the marriage of Katherine and Mally.”
The couple met on June 30, 2008, at the urging of a mutual friend. At the time, Canon Lloyd, 57, said, “We were both travelling a lot and so we would talk by phone. And somehow when you talk a lot by phone, a relationship can go deeper more quickly than when you spend time in person. At least that is what happened to us.”
Although this is a second marriage for Canon Lloyd, it is the first for Dean Ragsdale,52. “It’s astonishing how the world is changing,’’ Dean Ragsdale said, “when I grew up, I never believed I would be able to have someone special in my life and now to have almost 400 people show up to support us at our marriage ceremony is wonderful.”
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this is why I left that church along with my family.
“this is why I left that church along with my family.”
Why did you leave your family?
along with my family we left that church LOL
Continuing their march towards irrelevancy, I see.
Shame on you.
May they repent, and be converted to Christ.
So true, and they deride real believers as rubes, and as being unsophisticated.
I believe it is never wrong to pray for or desire another person's repentance, conversion, and salvation.
It was either one or two years ago I was seeing this happen at St.Cecilias church here in Boston. Week after week there were pro-homosexual speakers, authors etc. scheduled within the weekly bulletin. One such group had a history of anti-catholic activity and at that point I gathered what I had and informed the Bishops office. If I recall correctly someone here also posted the info to a Catholic Yahoo group.
I have no idea if anything was ever done about Father Unni and his gay activism. I used to attend the Saturday service at 5:00 PM held in St. Cecilia's but officiated by Father Grover of St. Clements. ( an amazing church and the greatest priest I have ever known )
The Sunday night service at St. Cecilias was filled with so many flagrant liturgical abuses that I walked out just before the consecrating of some type of brown loaf of bread. This is prior to one and all loafing up to the altar in all fashion, gathering around, chatting, holding hands and so on.
If we are not careful what has befallen the Episcopal church can happen to the Catholic church.
There, sadly fixed it.
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