Tuesday, June 26, 2007

In the evening, a grand installation ceremony for the new Primate in a church not far from downtown. Archbishop Fred is seated in the centre while someone speaks - I've forgotten who. It was a long ceremony, with First Nations singers, Sudanese dancers, flags waving, a long sermon from the Bishop of York, trumpets, a choir from several parishes, and so forth. A good send off. The archbishop was his Nova Scotia folksy self, at the end of the evening going through a whole bunch of thank you's for virtually anyone who had anything to do with the Synod or the ceremony. He is a tall, likable man - I think he may be right man for the times. His challenge - to get us to get over the sex business. The Synod may have cost half a million dollars, and essentially all we did of import was to elect the new Archbishop and talk about the same sex blessing. That and a bit of housekeeping stuff. We've got to do better than this!

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