Episcopalians celebrate churches growth
By Michael Dinan
May 15, 2006

The leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States yesterday told more than 300 Greenwich parishioners that it's important to recall Jesus Christ's resurrection through all of the Easter season's 50 days.

Christians should value beyond Easter weekend the story of how Christ objected to money-changers' use of a temple, the Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold III, 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, said during a sermon at Christ Church Greenwich.

'What he (Christ) is objecting to there is not simply commerce, but the tendency we have to make religion serve our own ends,' Griswold told worshippers from four Episcopal churches in town, gathered together to mark 300 years of Anglican worship in Greenwich.

Originally planned as a waterfront event at Greenwich Point, the special service was attended by parishioners, clergy, acolytes, musicians and others from Christ Church Greenwich, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and St. Savior's Episcopal Church. the rest