From bishop at tec-europe.org  Tue Feb  2 07:55:28 2010
From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:55:28 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] Haiti Cathedral before and after
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Please distribute widely:

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Cath?drale de la Sainte Trinit?, before the earthquake (note world-famous frescoes representing Jesus as a black man)

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The Cath?drale today


Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris France
+33 1 53 23 84 06  (tel)
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From office at tec-europe.org  Thu Feb  4 15:09:15 2010
From: office at tec-europe.org (Vicky)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:09:15 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] +Pierre's Pastoral Letter
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From bishop at tec-europe.org  Fri Feb  5 07:03:46 2010
From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:03:46 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] more from Haiti's bishop
Message-ID: <B0F28D52-FE66-48E5-A420-37C366AAD268@tec-europe.org>

I wanted to share this webpage with you: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_119150_ENG_HTM.htm 


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Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris France
+33 1 53 23 84 06  (tel)
+33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax)
office at tec-europe.org




From office at tec-europe.org  Tue Feb  9 13:46:50 2010
From: office at tec-europe.org (Vicky)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:46:50 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] Fwd: PB's and my visit to Haiti
References: <77ADF0D4-6EEB-45B6-B6F6-24240B61362E@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B79252E4-B5E5-4EB0-9946-AEC497266162@tec-europe.org>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Stanley <merelaurens at gmail.com>
> Date: 9 f?vrier 2010 12:11:33 HNEC
> To: Lauren Stanley <MereLaurenS at gmail.com>
> Subject: PB's and my visit to Haiti
> 
> Presiding Bishop pays pastoral visit to Haitian bishop
> 'You have already had your Good Friday,' Jefferts Schori tells Duracin
> 
> By Mary Frances Schjonberg, February 08, 2010
> [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori paid a poignant visit to Port-au-Prince Feb. 8 to survey with Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zach? Duracin the devastation wrought by the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
> After climbing over the ruins of the diocese's Cath?drale Sainte Trinit? (Holy Trinity Cathedral), the presiding bishop turned to Duracin and said "You should skip Lent this year; you have already had your Good Friday."
> 
> "Yes, we can all sing Alleluias together," Duracin replied, according to the Rev. Lauren Stanley, who accompanied Jefferts Schori on her five-hour visit.
> 
> Pointing to some of the cathedral's 13 bells that were visible among the ruins and that appeared to be salvageable, Jefferts Schori said "they will ring again" and that the cathedral "will rise again," according to Stanley.
> 
> While at the cathedral, Jefferts Schori and Duracin said prayers at what the Haitian bishop is calling the diocese's "open-air cathedral," which consists of some plastic sheeting stretched over a frame of two-by-fours that shelters some pews rescued from the cathedral ruins.
> 
> The two bishops each prayed aloud with those who happened to be at the site. Some of the older women members of the cathedral were combing the ruins for pieces of the building's world-famous murals depicting biblical stories in Haitian motifs. The gathered congregation also sang "How Great Thou Art" in French, Stanley said.
> 
> During the visit, Stanley said, Duracin asked her to "tell the world that physically the church is broken, but the church is still there in faith. Our faith is still strong."
> 
> She said the bishop asked for the support of Episcopalians everywhere to help Haitians rebuild the structures of the church because that work "will have a positive impact on our faith. It will bring us courage, confidence and a good future."
> 
> "We are approaching Lent," Stanley quoted Duracin as saying. "I ask people to be with us in the desert so that on Easter, all of us in Haiti and all the Episcopal Church may sing together in joy: 'Alleluia, Alleluia, the Lord is risen indeed.'"
> 
> The trip was also meant for Jefferts Schori and Duracin to talk about the immediate and future directions of the diocese. The presiding bishop assured Duracin that the entire Episcopal Church stood with his diocese in prayer and support, and would continue to do so, according to Stanley.
> 
> Stanley is one of four Episcopal Church missionaries assigned to Haiti and the only one who was not in-country at the time of the Jan. 12 quake. Duracin has asked Stanley to help the diocese coordinate offers of relief and recovery made by others in the Episcopal Church, and to tell the diocese's story.
> 
> Stanley said part of the discussion in Port-au-Prince centered on how she can continue to assist Duracin and the diocese by splitting her time between Haiti and the U.S. As part of that work, she will begin to help coordinate the work of Episcopalians elsewhere in the church who have interests in or connections with specific places and ministries in Haiti, she said.
> 
> Stanley said she was gratified to hear Duracin's confidence in her ability to help the diocese connect more strongly with "our partners who are working together to help God's beloved children in Haiti."
> 
> Stanley, who spoke with ENS by phone from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after the visit, said that Duracin wanted the presiding bishop to see the extent of the devastation the diocese suffered. While the full extent of damage is still being assessed, it is clear that most of the diocese's churches and schools were destroyed or heavily damaged. The convent of the Sisters of St. Margaret, adjacent to the cathedral, was also destroyed.
> 
> The lost schools include the Holy Trinity complex of primary, music and trade schools next to the demolished diocesan cathedral, the university and the seminary. A portion of the St. Vincent School for Handicapped Children, also in the Haitian capital, collapsed. Students and possibly staff were killed at some of the schools.
> 
> Stanley said that Duracin, Jefferts Schori and she visited the Holy Trinity school complex, the Episcopal University and the survivors' camp on a rocky field at College Ste. Pierre, a diocesan school destroyed by the quake. (The diocese, known locally as L'Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti, is caring for about 25,000 Haitians in roughly 20 makeshift camps around the country. Since the quake, many people have left the capital for the countryside.)
> 
> The three also surveyed Duracin's home which collapsed in the quake, trapping and severely injuring his wife, Marie-Edithe. Duracin has told ENS that he is been spending his night sleeping in a tent outside another home that he was having built for his family.
> 
> The Rev. Kesner Ajax, head of the diocese's Bishop Tharp Institute of Business and Technology (BTI) in Les Cayes, drove the three around the city. Everywhere they where they saw evidence of destruction and death, Stanley said.
> 
> The Holy Trinity music school once housed the country's only concert hall, but now "you can see where it came smashing straight down and there are still bodies of our students in there as well," Stanley said.
> 
> Duracin told them that "this is why we cannot just use a bulldozer" to clear the wreckage.
> 
> There is a common grave just outside of the Episcopal University and Stanley said they stopped to pray at that grave. One of the lower level classrooms that was destroyed usually had more than 100 students in it, she said, but only nine bodies have been found. People are going through the rubble by hand searching for the dead.
> 
> On the street outside the university, there is an outdoor holding cell for prisoners, Stanley said.
> 
> At the diocesan trade school, only the fa?ade is still standing, Stanley said.
> 
> "There nothing left except bodies," she said. "We could actually see one body at the ruins."
> 
> Stanley said: "It was heart-wrenching to see the city that I love -- to see the things that this church has done for so many years that makes me so proud to be an Episcopalian in Haiti -- totally gone," Stanley said. "It is beyond heart-breaking. I don't have adequate words to describe the devastation."
> 
> Jefferts Schori flew to Santo Domingo on Feb. 7 from Havana, Cuba, after being a co-consecrator at the Rev. Griselda Delgado Del Carpio's consecration and ordination as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. She and Stanley, who met her in the Dominican Republic capital, flew into Port-au-Prince the next day for the visit.
> 
> They brought with them a number of gifts and supplies for Duracin and the diocese, including six episcopal clergy shirts for the bishop that were a gift from the Church Pension Group, three liturgical stoles and 3,000 communion wafers from the presiding bishop, and pants and socks for Duracin and a bottle of Taylor tawny port communion wine from Stanley.
> 
> She also gave the bishop an alb and cincture that was purchased by Rhonda Bush, an administrator at Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke, Virginia. The church, where Stanley was priested and which still supports her missionary work, offered a requiem mass Feb. 4 for the victims of the earthquake who were members of the Church of St. James the Just in P?tionville, Haiti. Stanley serves the English-speaking congregation there. 
> 
> "In our culture it is very important that the leader look like a leader," Stanley said. "In the church in Haiti, it's very important that the bishop look like the bishop because when he is properly dressed and properly vested then we know that he can take care of us and we know that we have not been forgotten."
> 
> Duracin told Stanley that the bread and wine will be used Feb. 12 during the Episcopal Church's part of the nationwide prayer services planned to mark the one month anniversary of the earthquake.
> 
> Stanley also brought with her a nearly 150-year-old brass cross that had once been part of a processional cross used by missionaries. She was given the cross by the Woodson family of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, whose members attend St. Paul's Episcopal Church there. While looking through the rubble at College Ste. Pierre, Stanley said, the presiding bishop found a staff that might have been a short processional cross or a verger'swand and which the three discovered fit the cross perfectly.
> 
> -- The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is national correspondent for the Episcopal News Service and editor of Episcopal News Monthly.
> 
> 

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From bishop at tec-europe.org  Wed Feb 17 09:51:36 2010
From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:51:36 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fwd=3A_chr=E9tiens_de_Mossoul?=
References: <998605bc1002160455t67ece861ga4396f2ce47b433a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B6590F78-3447-44B9-869B-19792B770FEC@tec-europe.org>

Ash Wednesday reading... killings of Christians continue unabated in Mosul, Iraq (AFP in French). As elections approach on March 7, violence against them increases. 


D?but du message r?exp?di? :

> Irak: Les chr?tiens exasp?r?s par trois meurtres en 36 heures ? Mossoul 
>    Par Moujahid MOHAMMAD
>    
>    MOSSOUL (Irak), 16 f?v 2010 (AFP) - La communaut? multis?culaire chr?tienne de Mossoul est exasp?r?e par l'inaction des services de s?curit? alors que trois de ses membres ont ?t? abattus en trois jours par des tueurs qui ont r?ussi ? s'?chapper apr?s avoir commis leur crime.
>    Mardi matin, dans le quartier al-Arabi, situ? dans le nord de la ville, deux cousins assyriens Ziya Toma, 21 ans, ?tudiant ? la facult? d'ing?ni?rie, et Ramsen Shmael, 22 ans, ?tudiant en Pharmacie, se rendaient ? leurs cours, selon la police.
>    Une voiture s'est arr?t?e. Un tueur est sorti, les a mitraill?s puis il est remont? dans le v?hicule o? l'attendaient deux complices. Ils ont r?ussi ? prendre la fuite, alors que les deux victimes gisaient dans leur sang, a ajout? cette m?me source.
>    Ziya ?tait sans vie et Ramsen est gri?vement bless?. La police a boucl? le quartier et a ouvert une enqu?te.
>    "Nous ne voulons pas d'?lections, nous ne voulons pas de d?put?s, nous faisons fi de nos droits, nous voulons seulement vivre et pr?server l'?me de nos fr?res et de nos fils", a affirm? ? Bassel Abdel Nour, pr?tre de l'?glise assyrienne Behnam, qui se trouve dans le quartier o? a eu lieu l'assassinat.
>    "C'est devenu un cauchemar. Nous en avons assez d'?tre tu?s, d'?tre d?plac?s. Les forces de s?curit? ne peuvent pas se contenter de regarder passivement la situation. Nous les tenons responsables car elles sont charg?es de prot?ger tous les Irakiens", a-t-il ajout?
>     Lundi, un marchand de primeurs syriaque catholique, Mounir Fatoukhi, 40 ans, a ?t? tu? par des inconnus qui ont ouvert le feu ? partir d'une voiture sur son magasin ? Sahaba, un quartier dans l'ouest de la ville, selon la police.
>    Dimanche, c'est un marchand de kebb?, un plat r?gional, Rayan Salem Elias, 43 ans, de confession chald?enne qui avait ?t? abattu devant chez lui, dans l'est de Mossoul.
>    Pour la police, il s'agit d'un complot li? ? la tenue le 7 mars des ?lections l?gislatives. "L'attaque contre les chr?tiens est une op?ration organis?e qui se produit de temps ? autre et qui a des motivations politiques d'autant nous nous approchons des ?lections", a affirm? mardi un commandant de la police qui se trouvait sur les lieu de l'attentat. 
>    "Ce n'est pas nouveau. Nous, Irakiens sommes la cible d'attentat et particuli?rement les chr?tiens. Cela se produit ? chaque ?lection. Les tueurs utilisent le confessionnalisme pour d?stabiliser le pays et les forces de s?curit?", a-t-il ajout?.
>    Une bonne partie des 500.000 chr?tiens vivant encore en Irak, r?sident ? Mossoul, 350 km au nord de Bagdad. 
>    "Nous sommes terrifi?s. On nous tue pour vider Mossoul de sa principale composante et les forces de s?curit? ne sont pas capables de nous offrir la s?curit?", avait d?plor? mardi Hazem Girgis, un diacre syriaque orthodoxe de l'?glise Saint-Ephrem du quartier Chourta, au centre de Mossoul.
>    Dans un rapport publi? en novembre, l'organisation de d?fense des droits de l'Homme Human Rights Watch (HRW) avait affirm? que les minorit?s, notamment chr?tiennes, du nord de l'Irak ?taient les victimes collat?rales du conflit entre Arabes et Kurdes pour le contr?le de territoires disput?s et devaient ?tre prot?g?es.
>    Fin 2008, une campagne de meurtres et de violences cibl?es a fait 40 morts parmi les chr?tiens, entra?nant le d?part de Mossoul de plus de 12.000 d'entre eux. Les diverses communaut?s se rejettent la responsabilit? de ces attaques.

Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris France
+33 1 53 23 84 06  (tel)
+33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax)
office at tec-europe.org




From bishop at tec-europe.org  Thu Feb 18 07:44:53 2010
From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:44:53 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] =?iso-8859-1?q?the__Bishop_of_Haiti=27s_Lenten_re?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?flection/English/Fran=E7ais?=
Message-ID: <FFA2B034-7968-46AF-9BDF-2C9ABC4CBFAE@tec-europe.org>

I wanted to share this webpage with you: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_119500_ENG_HTM.htm 


* If clicking on the link above does not work: open a new browser window, cut and paste the link into the address bar, and press Enter.  

Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris France
+33 1 53 23 84 06  (tel)
+33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax)
office at tec-europe.org


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From bishop at tec-europe.org  Thu Feb 18 07:48:13 2010
From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:48:13 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] former Bishop in charge celebrates a Big One
Message-ID: <09F2FEBD-5360-419D-B916-AC5CBE0CC31C@tec-europe.org>

Bishop Millard is the senior bishop of the Church...98 years old.

Congratulations to my predecessor!

Bishop Pierre

D?but du message r?exp?di? :

> De : HOB <hob-owner at epicom.org>
> Date : 17 f?vrier 2010 21:00:16 HNEC
> ? : Subscribers <bppwhalon at aol.com>
> Objet : Richard Millard
> 
> Good Ash Wednesday Brothers and Sisters.
>  
> Please see the note below from Peter Lee (Virginia, Res) about Richard Millard (California Suffragan and Convocation of Europe, Res).  Give thanks for the 50th anniversary of his Consecration.
>  
> Lenten Blessings.
>  
> +Sandy Hampton
>  
> Please send changes to bishop838 at comcast.net 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: lemory at episcopalchurch.org
> To: bishop838 at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:13:51 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: 50th anniversary of Bishop Millard's Consecration
> 
> Hi, +Sandy
>  
> We got the message below from +Peter Lee and Clay asked that you send it out on the HOB email list serve.
>  
> Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of Richard Millard on Sunday, February 14.  Bishop Millard was Bishop Suffragan of California and Bishop for the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.  He was in the procession at the service, pronounced the blessing, and attended a celebratory lunch as guest of honor.
>  
>  
> The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee
> Interim Dean, Grace Cathedral
> 1100 California St
> San Francisco, CA  94108
>  
>  
>  

=


Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
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75008 Paris France
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From bppwhalon at noos.fr  Sat Feb 20 17:40:06 2010
From: bppwhalon at noos.fr (bppwhalon at noos.fr)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:40:06 -0500
Subject: [Europe.justus] NYTimes.com: Spirit Quest
Message-ID: <20100220174008.CA94053864F@barracuda.rutabaga.org>

This page was sent to you by: bppwhalon at noos.fr.

Interesting, as far as the US is concerned...


OPINION | February 20, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist: Spirit Quest
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Young adults are looking for spirituality but not necessarily through organized religion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/opinion/20blow.html?emc=eta1




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From Bishop at tec-europe.org  Tue Feb 23 17:55:55 2010
From: Bishop at tec-europe.org (Pierre Whalon)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:55:55 +0100
Subject: [Europe.justus] trip to Haiti--change of plans
Message-ID: <751C2977-18B8-4013-A496-98E50530CAC6@tec-europe.org>

Dear All,

I have been asked by the Presiding Bishop to go to Haiti after my trip to Washington DC.

Originally I had been asked to participate in an interreligious "summit" on March 1-3  that grew out of my trip to Teheran over three years ago. (If you are interested, see  http://bit.ly/cFRMuA)

Bishop Katharine asked that I accompany Archbishop Thabo Mokgoba of South Africa in Port-au-Prince and bring Bishop Zach? Duracin out to be with his wife Marie-?dithe, who is recovering from serious issues suffered when their house collapsed during the earthquake.

This trip will take place 4-7 March. I will be able to fly back on the 8th.

Of course this means I cannot teach the Academy for Parish Leadership. I am happy to report that the Very Rev. Zachary Fleetwood, Dean of our Cathedral, has agreed to replace me as teacher for that event, the first in what we hope will eventually be a tradition in the Convocation. The Academy is meant for new lay leaders to receive an in-depth orientation to shared leadership in our parishes and missions. No one is better equipped for this than Dean Fleetwood.

Please pray for me for a safe and fruitful trip, as well as for Bishop Duracin, his wife, and all the people of Haiti...The Episcopal Church's largest diocese...

All good blessings

Bishop Pierre


Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris France
+33 1 53 23 84 06  (tel)
+33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax)
office at tec-europe.org