Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Some "Kodak Moments" from Burlingame

Here are some photos from the last couple of days here at the Mercy Center in Burlingame CA where the Province 8 women clergy have gathered for the 2009 "Imagine" Conference ...

3 comments:

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

Looks very nice ;=)

Elizabeth Kaeton said...

Actually, Brooke Alexander was the first woman to be ordained in the Diocese of Maine.

Looks like y'all had a GRAND time.

SUSAN RUSSELL said...

ACTUALLY ...

http://usm.maine.edu/~history/newtrail.html

S10 ST. LUKE'S CATHEDRAL, 137-145 State Street

St. Luke's Cathedral, the center of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, was the site of the first ordination of a woman to the Episcopal priesthood in Maine when Elizabeth Ann Habecker was ordained in 1977, the year after the Episcopal Church approved the ordination of women. The action was so controversial that the priest at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Munjoy Hill caused his church's flag to be flown upside down at half staff. The following year, Brooke Alexander Leddy was the first Maine resident to be ordained at St. Luke's.