Episcopal News Service Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Remembering Katrina: Vigil marks anniversary in New Orleans; Packard preaches
By Ann Ball
[ENS, NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana] St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lakeview, New Orleans, served as the site for an August 28 diocesan-wide 7 p.m. Eucharist and vigil of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Located not far from the now infamous 17th Street Canal, St. Paul's has made a remarkable comeback in its first year of rehabilitation following the ravages of the storm and flooding.
Five bishops, clergy from all over the diocese, St. Paul's choir and servers processed into the nave as daylight gave way to evening. Louisiana's Canon Chad Jones led the chanting of the Great Litany in procession.
The Rt. Rev. George Packard, the Episcopal Church's Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies, who preached for the service, traveled to Louisiana to take part in the many anniversary observances along the Gulf Coast. Bishop Duncan Gray III of Mississippi and Suffragan Bishop Nedi Rivera of Olympia attended the service in support of the diocese. Louisiana's Ninth Bishop James Brown and Tenth Bishop Charles Jenkins, celebrant, were present also.
Packard's sermon took the intricacies of pain from the early days of Katrina and posited them into the helping hands and hearts of the present and into the arms of God.
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