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UPDATED INFO AND GUIDE to the Father Provenzano Ordination Events
 

Information Advisory for Participants and Guests
(Updated September 16, 2009)

 

The Ordination and Consecration of
The Rev. Lawrence C. Provenzano
September 19, 2009, 11 a.m.

 

 

-- The Saturday, September 19, event will be at the Tilles Center of C.W. Post College, 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY  11548-1300  Use that address for your GPS or to check Google Maps or MapQuest.  The Tilles Center website has travel information:  www.tillescenter.org  The Tilles Center box office has recorded travel directions:  (516) 299-3100, Press 3.

 

Travel note:  Our suggestion is that you consult standard maps and look for Interstate 495, which is the Long Island Expressway (LIE), and take Exit 39, which is Glen Cove Rd., whether traveling from the east or west.  Then travel north on Glen Cove Rd. for about two miles to Northern Blvd., which is Route 25A, and turn right onto Northern Blvd. and continue to the fifth traffic light and turn right to enter the C. W. Post campus and Tilles Center driveway.  Bear right and proceed straight ahead to the Tilles Center parking lot.

 

The C.W. Post campus is in Brookville but uses the nearby Greenvale, NY postal zip code.  The Greenvale station of the Long Island Railroad is the C.W. Post stop.

 

To travel from the Mercer School and diocesan offices to the Tilles Center:  Go north on Cathedral Ave. "toward" 5th Street.  Turn RIGHT at 7th Street and continue to Franklin Avenue and turn LEFT.  Continue a short distance to Stewart Avenue and turn RIGHT.  Continuel, bearing LEFT, onto Clinton Road.  Clinton Road becomes Glen Cove Road.  Continue on Glen Cove Road about five miles to Northern Blvd (Route 25A) and turn RIGHT.  Continue on 25A for five traffic lights.  At the fifth light turn RIGHT to enter the C.W. Post Campus and the Tilles Center driveway.  Bear right and proceed straight ahead to the Tiles Center parking lot. (Travel time is about 25 minutes.)

 

-- The Tilles office phone number:  (516) 299-2752.  This Tilles number will be available on Saturday, September 19.

 

-- Doors will open at 10 a.m.  Arrive early.  Allow time to get a Tilles ID bracelet.  Only those with an ID bracelet will be seated.  ID bracelets will be issued at the door for each individual attendee. 

 

-- The Tilles Center seats 2,200.  All are invited and welcome.  No tickets or reservations are needed.  No need to provide names ahead of time to the event committee.

 

-- Due to fire safety regulations, when the Tilles seats are filled, Tilles security will not permit any others to enter. Overflow seating and a sound system may be available but only outside the auditorium.

 

-- Parking is plentiful.  Handicapped parking and access are available at the main entrance.

 

-- Those needing bus parking spaces should advise the event committee immediately (if not already done) by email:  consecration091909@gmail.com

 

-- Signs and ushers will direct groups with special arrangements to assigned parking lot spaces.

 

-- Valuables should be left at home.  Leave and lock personal belongings in your car.  There are no locked rooms for purses, etc. 

 

-- Participants in the liturgy who received special instructions should follow those instructions if they differ from the above.

 

-- Photographers should not use flash, only high speed film or high ISO settings, during the liturgy.  Cell phones and pagers should be turned off.

 

-- The service will conclude at approximately 12:30 p.m., followed by an outdoor reception.

 

--  For last minute announcements about this special celebratory event, please visit this web page again.

Schedule For The
Two-Day
Bishop Ordination Related Events

 

Day One

FRIDAY, September 18, 2009

 

All Diocesan Clergy, Bishops, and Spouses/Partners

Thank you to the clergy and spouses/partners who have sent early RSVPs saying they are coming for a day with the Presiding Bishop.  Please note that Bishop-Elect Provenzano expects to meet as many as possible of his clergy and their spouses/partners that day.

 

9:00 a.m. Clergy breakfast & meeting with the Presiding Bishop

at Cathedral House Auditorium (Enter the doors that face the cathedral). 

 

9:00 a.m. Clergy Spouses/Partners breakfast & meeting with Richard Schori, spouse of the Presiding Bishop, at Mercer School. 

 

11:30 a.m. All will gather at the Cathedral for Holy Eucharist.   The Presiding Bishop will preside and preach.  A box lunch will follow at Mercer.

 

RSVP via email to: consecration091909@gmail.com

(Please, no phone messages.)

 

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4:00 p.m. Rehearsal at Tilles ONLY for the following:

 

Presiding Bishop, Bishop-Elect, Co-Consecrators, Examining Bishops, Deacons of the Table, Acolytes, Preacher, Litanists, Readers and Gospeler, Readers of Testimonials, Registrars, Presenters of the Bishop-Elect, Presenters of the Gifts, Chaplains, Altar Verger, Ministers of Ceremony, choir/music director, official photographer, diocesan audio/video crew.

Schedule For The
Two-Day

Ordination Related Events

 

 

DAY TWO

SATURDAY, September 19, 2009

 

(Bring snack and drinking water.  Coffee and tea will be available.)

 

8:00 a.m. Acolytes, Banner Bearers, Event Hosts, Marshalls, and Vergers.

Assemble in the Tilles Center LOBBY by 8 a.m.  Leave vestments in your car – there will be time for a break and vesting.

 

8:45 a.m. Diocesan Choir & Musicians.  Be on stage by 8:45 am.

 

9:30 a.m.  

The following should assemble in the Tilles Center LOBBY by 9:30 a.m. (vested, if applicable)

 

The Entrance Procession

 

Group I  Civic and Community Leaders, Executive Council Members, Provincial Officers, Diocesan Council, Diocesan Staff, Day School Deans, Diocesan Youth Leaders, Trustees of the Estate, Standing Committee, Joint Oversight Committee, Search Committee, Transition Committee, Ordination Event Committee.

 

Group II  Liturgical Dancers, Presenters of the Bishop-Elect, Readers of Testimonials, Registrar and Assisting Registrar, Presenters of the Gifts and Vestments, Litanists, Readers, Ministers of Communion.

 

Group III  Seminarians, Seminary Deans, Ecumenical Clergy, Ecumenical Bishops, Interfaith Representatives, Visiting Episcopal Clergy, Diocesan Episcopal Clergy, Chaplains to the Bishop-Elect, The Bishop-Elect.

 

Group IV  Altar Servers, Episcopal and Lutheran Bishops, Deacon of the Dismissal, Deacons of the Table, Gospeler, Preacher, Priest Concelebrants, Archdeacons, Bishops in Residence, Retired Bishops, Co-Consecrating Bishops, Chaplain to the Diocesan Bishop, Diocesan Bishop, Chaplain to the Presiding Bishop, The Presiding Bishop.

 

About Vestments

 

Concelebrants:  (Archdeacons, Fr. Ciannella, Mo. Ellis) Alb and red stole.  Red chasubles (requested by Fr. Provenzano) will be provided.

 

Clergy: Cassock, surplice and red stole.  There is limited vesting space. 

NOTE: Clergy will be processing in random order, not by tenure.

 

Altar party, Eucharistic Ministers and Banner Bearers:  Albs (clergy, red stoles)

From the Transition Committee for Bishop Coadjutor
By The Very Rev. Christopher D. Hofer
 
For two years, the leadership of the Diocese of Long Island has been preparing for the day in which the Diocese will celebrate the ordination and consecration of a bishop who will serve as our Bishop Coadjutor. Over countless hours of meetings, visitations to and with nominees, a series of walkabouts and the election of the Rev. Lawrence C. Provenzano to be the Diocese’s next bishop, the day for the ordination is almost here.

Special Offering

There will be a collection of non-perishable food items during the ordination. Attendees are encouraged to bring items with them and place them in designated bins at the Tilles Center. The gifts will be blessed and distributed to the hungry, in cooperation with Episcopal Community Services.

Reception

Following the liturgy, there will be light refreshments at C. W. Post and participants will have an opportunity to to meet Bishop Provenzano and his family.

The Liturgy

The ordination service, beginning at 11:00 a.m., will follow the liturgy in The Book of Common Prayer for such services.. The Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, will be the Chief Consecrator. Highlights will include a large procession of Diocesan clergy and lay leadership, visiting clergy, and honored guests;

The Rev.
Mpho Tutu
participation of resident bishops and bishops from throughout the Church; a Diocesan Choir under the direction of Gregory Eaton; a homily by the Rev. Mpho Tutu; liturgical dancing; offering of gifts from our Long Island Native American community; steel drummers from throughout the Diocese and much, much more.

In order to make the liturgy truly representative of the diocese, Fr. Provenzano, the Transition Committee and the Ordination Event sub-committee have been including as many individuals from throughout the Diocesan family as possible in positions ranging from ushers to Eucharistic Ministers to acolytes to choir members. Participants will represent the melting pot of our Diocese from Brooklyn to Suffolk and Nassau to Queens.

If you have additional questions, please email consecration091909@gmail.com for further information.

 The liturgy for the Ordination of a Bishop is on
pages 510 and following in the Book of Common Prayer.

At the next regular convention of the diocese, November 13-14, the Bishop Diocesan, the Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr., will hand over his crozier, the symbol of the bishop's authority, to the Bishop Coadjutor.