 In recent years the Committee on Dispatch of Business has worked together with our Bishop on
both a theme and logo to focus our attention and
attentiveness. We have had different themes, but for
this year it was felt that we should adopt last year's
theme of "many hands make one Dominion in the Sea" with its many and diverse hands stretching across
Long Island.
We are many and with much diversity of course but
we are fundamentally and essentially one and Jesus
calls us as does our Bishop "to be one … so that the
world may believe" (John 17) and to heed the call of
St. Francis to build the Church.
This theme of oneness is our baptismal gift and
both vital and crucial for our own diocese and all
churches and between the different faith communities
and traditions as we journey on the pilgrim way. To
this end the theme and logo chosen for our convention
this year is to be oneness expressed in our unity
in "One God, One Dominion, One Mission and One
Diocese." We will gather with our bishop and with each
other and invited guests to celebrate that oneness
though our worship, fellowship, and business done.
May we all pray that we will play our part in participating
in God's oneness and furthering it in our life
together and at our diocesan convention. |
