This is huge, HUGE news for St Nicholas: we’ve been informed that on her upcoming visit to Chicago, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will not only visit us, she will preside at the service! We will hold 1 service on Sunday, February 3, at 9:00 am. This will be the last Sunday of Epiphany, and Shrove Monday (and Fat Tuesday) follow immediately. Then, we will go into Lent with humility and hope (and fully charged spiritual batteries).
Presiding Bishop ++Katharine will be in Chicago for the consecration of our new bishop, +Jeffrey Lee, but is taking time from her busy schedule to be with us that Sunday. We’re over the moon at the news!
Here is some information from her website:
Shalom! The Episcopal Church welcomes the Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, previously Bishop of Nevada, as our twenty-sixth Presiding Bishop. She is chief pastor to the Episcopal Church’s 2.4 million members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, ecumenical officer, and primate, joining leaders of the other 38 Anglican Provinces in consultation for global good and reconciliation. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006 and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006.
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