Diocese of CNY: A letter from Tony Seel to his parish-St. Andrew's Church, Vestal, NY

Friday, December 02, 2005

Rector's Fisherman Letter:The following is my letter to St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Vestal NY. It was published in the December issue of our Fisherman newsletter. I wrote it because even in our parish there are many people who don't know what is going on in ECUSA these days. I present it here because there are people in parishes in our Diocese of Central NY and around the country that know even less about what is going on. For some people this is deliberate - they really don't want to know. For others, it is that their parish priest and their bishop would prefer that they not know. I hear from parishioners from other churches in the Diocese of Central NY either directly or through our parishioners that the issues that confront ECUSA are not discussed in their parishes. Two weeks ago we managed to go through an entire diocesan convention without having any serious discussion of the issues that confront our diocese and ECUSA. I mentioned General Convention 2003 at a microphone during the Friday afternoon session. The chancellor of the diocese made a report that our diocese has not studied the Windsor Report. That was it. We have an elephant in the living room where the coffee table used to be and everyone is talking around it as if it isn't there. ed.

letter here