Posted on 06/27/2022 8:49:04 PM PDT by Morgana
[Episcopal News Service] A group of clergy and lay people from across the church have created a liturgy template that Episcopalians are invited to use in response to the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning the right to abortion in the United States.
The liturgy is titled “A Service of Lament and Healing” and includes suggested prayers and readings, a litany based on the prayer of St. Francis, and a time for people to express their feelings through activities like writing or lighting candles.
The template is available as a Google Doc in English and Spanish. An introduction to the liturgy notes that it is provided as an open-source document so it can be adapted and used as needed by any faith community that finds it helpful.
In an interview with Episcopal News Service, the Very Rev. Katie Churchwell, dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and one of the liturgy’s authors, said the idea for it began after a draft of the Supreme Court decision was leaked in May. The Very Rev. Gary Lesesne, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis, Indiana, gathered some people he knew to think about how the church might want to respond when the Supreme Court issued its decision “in a way that wasn’t just thrown together,” she said.
“With everything that we do as the church, we want to be thoughtful, intentional and prayerful, and, in particular with this issue around a woman’s right to choose,” she said. “This would be a starting place for The Episcopal Church at large to use as they see fit.”
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How arrogant, wicked and blasphemous.
You know this weekend has been a real eye opener. I knew people were messed up but now they really show themselves.
"Dobbs" has stripped the veil away from a great many systemic problems ...
Our pastor said yesterday that God is now dividing the “ wheat from the tares” in the church in preparation for His return.
Satan has counterfeited far too long. It needs to be purged!
Amen.
“You know this weekend has been a real eye opener. I knew people were messed up but now they really show themselves.”
Interesting to see how the true Christians are being separated from the frauds. Lamenting because babies will be saved? Straight out of hell. Not kidding.
I believe it. We must purge the corrupted.
Episcopalians remain true to the decadence, hedonism and satanism of their founder, the heretic Henry VIII.
This is the second reason why I swam the Tiber.
These Ecopalians have truly lost the thread.
They regret that some viable and perfectly healthy babies won’t have their spinal cords cut with scissors, their brains sucked out, or their bodies torn limb from limb
Their real master, the devil, is telling them to do this.
Evil and dead imposters.
A Te Deum would be appropriate.
Whatta laff
So Washington - an Episcopalian vestryman, baptized in 1732 - was a hedonistic satanist?
Guess you’re in the wrong country Papist.
As Agent Wilson said, the rest of you are just visiting.
We started the place.
Meanwhile, The Anglican Church in America praised God for the Court’s decision. Good place for you real Episcopalian Christians to worship.
Our local UMC (soon to disaffiliate) pastor and congregation praised the Lord for the decision.
Both of my churches are celebrating.
They sound like new age gurus to me.
And no, Washington was not a satanist, though his Freemasonic proclivities are not to my liking.
Henry VIII was a very evil man. The Episcopalian propaganda I've read said as much, though it blamed his evil on him being a "Roman Catholic" [sic].
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