Note to all seminarians: Today is an Ember Day, a day on which you must write to your Bishop and give an account of your life. How are you doing spiritually? Physically? Financially? Your Bishop already knows about your grades. He/She has a copy of your grades. If you can't think what to say today, you have another Ember Day coming up on Saturday.
On Ember Days, we pray among other things that God will raise up priests to serve at the altar. So, seminarians, write to your Bishop, in further preparation to hear this prayer at your ordination:
O 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 were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
[The Book of Common Prayer, 528]
In peace,
Linda+
The Rev. Linda McCloud
Vicar, Holy Cross Church Episcopal
Billings, Montana
406-208-7314
www.holycrosschurchbillings.org
photos: graduation at Sewanee
The University of the South
School of Theology
May 13, 2005
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