カリフォルニア主教に決まったAndrus氏からIntegrityに宛てられたメッセージ。忘れないためにここに残しておこうと思う。
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Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:51:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Susan Russell <revsusanrussell@earthlink.net>
Subject: [Integrity News] Bishop Andrus addresses CA
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>Address by the Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus to the Special Convention
>to Elect the Eighth Bishop of California on the occasion of his
>election.
Delivered via telephone to those gathered at Grace
>Cathedral in San Francisco from his home in Birmingham, Alabama;
6 May 2006.
>Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
>
>Sheila and I are gladdened, and humbled, by the trust you have placed
>in me, in us. Publicly, I want to say that my heart is with the other
>nominees and their partners. They are uniformly splendid people, and
>I was honored to be in their number.
>
>Also, to all of you who have been so prayerfully working to bring
>this moment for your diocese, the election of a new bishop, you must
>know that you have exhibited every trait of a Christian community.
>You are a witness to the vitality of the Church in your very way of
>being.
>
>We must all understand, and here I address the diocese of California
>and those listening from elsewhere, that your vote today remains a
>vote for inclusion and communion ? of gay and lesbian people in their
>full lives as single or partnered people, of women, of all ethnic
>minorities, and all people. My commitment to Jesus Christ?s own
>mission of inclusion is resolute.
>
>And I share with you your strongly expressed commitment to youth, to
>those who do not yet know Christ, our calling as evangelists, and to
>God?s waiting, expectant creation.
>
>I take this election to be an expression of our common desire to be
>part of the whole, the Communion and the world, in what may be a new
>way.
>
>We will work together in the listening process, lending the unique
>voice of the Bay Area Episcopalians to this great conversation and
>working to end global human suffering.
>
>Finally, let me say that being nourished as a bishop by the Episcopal
>Diocese of Alabama, fed by the historic and living witness of so many
>heroes of the struggle for human rights, whose words and deeds of
>compassion and justice have inspired and sustained me, I say to you
>the words of a west coast hero ? ?In the cause of peace, we cannot be
>sprinters, we must be long distance runners.?
>
>Please join me in prayer. God Be With You.
>
>Oh God of unchangeable power and eternal light: look favorably on
>your whole church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the
>effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the
>plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which
>were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old
>are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their
>perfection by him through whom all things are made, you Son Jesus
>Christ and Lord. Amen.
>
The Reverend Susan Russell
132 North Euclid Avenue
Pasadena CA 91101
626-583-2741
revsusanrussell@earthlink.net
