Episcopal Life Online September 21, 2007
[Editor's note: For in-depth coverage of the House of Bishops September 20-25 meeting in New Orleans, visit Episcopal Life Online at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_ENG_HTM.htm.]
* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury gets a taste of New Orleans * MULTIMEDIA - Image gallery of Ecumenical worship service in New Orleans
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Archbishop of Canterbury gets a taste of New Orleans
Williams visits lower Ninth, preaches at jazz-backed Evening Prayer
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams suggested September 20 during an ecumenical service at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (http://www.mccno.com) that New Orleans's recovery could remake the city into God's image of the holy city.
Noting the service's reading from Zechariah 8:3-13, Williams said that the image of the holy city is not based on strength of a city's arts community, business sector, educational offerings, or social-welfare programs.
"What makes a great, godly city is that it is a safe place for older people to sit and children to play in the streets," he said, adding that few people live in that kind of city anywhere in the world today.
Earlier in the day, Williams visited the site of a former Walgreens drugstore in the lower Ninth Ward to bless what will become the new home of the Church of All Souls, founded in New Orleans' lower Ninth after Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flood devastated the neighborhood. The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana (http://www.edola.org) helped to plant the church at the invitation of the neighborhood.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90220_ENG_HTM.htm
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MULTIMEDIA
Image gallery of Ecumenical worship service in New Orleans
[Episcopal Life Online] An image gallery of the September 20 Ecumenical worship service at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, at which Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams preached, is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_27365_ENG_HTM.htm