In the Press

From the Herald today.

“Rev Holdsworth said: “The congregation is delighted to be able to welcome him. It is an uncontroversial invitation from the congregation. Bishop Gene Robinson is one of the best preachers in the world and we are looking forward to hearing him.

“The good news of the gospel is that everyone is welcome at Jesus’s table and that is something we live out at St Mary’s.”

More here.

Although refused permission to celebrate communion at every Anglican altar in England, the Rt Rev Gene Robinson will preach the Gospel and celebrate the Eucharist here in St Mary’s on 3 August 2008 at 1030.

See +Gene’s own blog for details of what was happening to him over the weekend in Putney.

There is a facebook event page set up for facebookites which can be used to indicate who is coming on 3 August and specifically to invite other people.

Comments

24 responses to “In the Press”

  1. gail Avatar
    gail

    Thank you so much, Kelvin, for sharing the link to +Gene’s blog, and for following your intuition to invite him to S Mary’s.
    Along with others here I am increasingly looking forward to his visit and hearing him preach. Regardless of opposers, God spoke to the early church through Paul (also considered a most unlikely messenger). God will not be silenced. Love Transcends All Else.
    All love and prayers to +Gene.

  2. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Will you be doing any tabloid press? That might be fun.

  3. Margaret Avatar
    Margaret

    I’m really sorry that we will be away on holiday for +Gene. Will we have a chance to catch up on his sermon via your blog, Kelvin?

  4. Kelvin Avatar
    Kelvin

    Hi Margaret

    I hope that we will be able to put +Gene’s sermon online. Probably on the Cathedral’s new website.

  5. Margaret Avatar
    Margaret

    Thanks, Kelvin, that would be really good – it worked very well for Archbishop Hiltz. I almost felt that I was there (instead of tramping round Loch an Eilean being eaten alive by midges).

  6. Alistair Mackenzie Avatar
    Alistair Mackenzie

    This is abominable, having this sodomite “Archbishop” ,who left his wife, preaching in your “church”. I suppose you think you are SO charitable. As for “gail” comparing this vile man to Paul; well, here are the words of Paul:
    “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet”.
    Note this also: God is not mocked.

  7. kelvin Avatar

    Alistair – I’m sorry that you are so troubled.

    Know this only, that you are loved by God.

  8. Raymond Avatar

    I am in full agreement with Alistair. It is a shame and disgrace that such a person should be invited and indeed welcomed into the Scottish Episcopal Church ! The apostle Paul gave clear instruction concerning the office of a Bishop in Titus ch 1
    He spoke of ‘acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness’ going on to say in verse 7 that ‘a bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife as the steward of God: not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre’ In verse 9 he is to be ‘Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers’ For those in the church who have apostasized he warns in verse 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate’ Such is good commentary on this supposed Bishop.

    We need those such as Bishop JC Ryle of Liverpool who will unashamedly Preach the Word and ‘Contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints’ Jude v 3

  9. kelvin Avatar

    Bless you Raymond.

    I write this blog in the hope that it will be read by those whose views differ from mine. Thank you for giving me the assurance that this is not done in vain.

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