Second Week of Lent
March 21, 2014
Dear Friends,
This past Wednesday, the third and last of three meetings here in the diocese with the Reverend Stephen Lyon, director of the Anglican Communion's Bible in the Life of the Church Project took place at Saint Philip's on MacDonough Street in Brooklyn.
Father Lyon presented the 2012 first report of the project. After consultation among the regions of the 165 nations of the Anglican Communion, a number of excellent resources regarding Scripture in the Church were brought together. We have these now here at Mercer and they can be available to parishes as desired. I hope to share some of them in the upcoming months.
The BILC prokect continues through 2016. Its ongoing work seeks to open new and continuing lines of dialogue Church-wide as to how we engage at the congregational and diocesan levels with the Word of God; how that Word defines who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
I am deeply grateful to Fathers Wilfredo Benitez and Stuart Huntley, as well to Archdeacon Israel, for having hosted so generously these sessions with Father Lyon at St George's in Flushing, St Stephen's in Port Washington, and St Philip's, MacDonough Street, Brooklyn. They have helped us, as others are doing as well, to schedule Mercer School events in a variety of settings around the diocese.
As I have invited before, explore our calendar, found under the "Coming Events/Register" button here on the Mercer School homepage. See it across there to the left? If you see something interesting, call or email to talk about it. Above all if you find something you're interested in among Mercer events, share that news with three friends or family members. Come together. Even with all the electronic means of communication today, there's still no substitute for word of mouth. If you see something good, talk about it.
Wishing you and yours all the blessings of this season,
John McGinty+
Mercer: we're your school.
March 21, 2014
Dear Friends,
This past Wednesday, the third and last of three meetings here in the diocese with the Reverend Stephen Lyon, director of the Anglican Communion's Bible in the Life of the Church Project took place at Saint Philip's on MacDonough Street in Brooklyn.
Father Lyon presented the 2012 first report of the project. After consultation among the regions of the 165 nations of the Anglican Communion, a number of excellent resources regarding Scripture in the Church were brought together. We have these now here at Mercer and they can be available to parishes as desired. I hope to share some of them in the upcoming months.
The BILC prokect continues through 2016. Its ongoing work seeks to open new and continuing lines of dialogue Church-wide as to how we engage at the congregational and diocesan levels with the Word of God; how that Word defines who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
I am deeply grateful to Fathers Wilfredo Benitez and Stuart Huntley, as well to Archdeacon Israel, for having hosted so generously these sessions with Father Lyon at St George's in Flushing, St Stephen's in Port Washington, and St Philip's, MacDonough Street, Brooklyn. They have helped us, as others are doing as well, to schedule Mercer School events in a variety of settings around the diocese.
As I have invited before, explore our calendar, found under the "Coming Events/Register" button here on the Mercer School homepage. See it across there to the left? If you see something interesting, call or email to talk about it. Above all if you find something you're interested in among Mercer events, share that news with three friends or family members. Come together. Even with all the electronic means of communication today, there's still no substitute for word of mouth. If you see something good, talk about it.
Wishing you and yours all the blessings of this season,
John McGinty+
Mercer: we're your school.
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we are sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we are sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
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