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A
cold wind flaps my earth turn to sleep or death.
coat-tails and whirls With signals like these its only
a cloud of dead leaves natural my pagan precursors
about my feet as I walk my identified the passage from
daughter to the bus stop. They days supremacy to nights to
rasp voicelessly on the con- be a passage between worlds,
crete and my thoughts finds a time when the dead souls
them a flock with words, return to be blown about our
warnings, pleas, spokenbut lands toothlessly muttering
not understood. A passage of words, warnings, pleas to
Homer flickers to mind: Od- the living. With the coming
ysseus, sword drawn, keeping of Christ to the British Isles,
the rustling flock of shades the soul cakes were offered to
at bay from the invigorating wandering strangers rather
blood of the black sheep that than the family dead; flick-
gives voice to a fallen com- ering faces lit visitors rather
rade, to an ancient prophet, to than turning away spiteful
the heros motherstrangers spirits. All Hallows Eve, All
joined in death. For the dead Hallows, and All Souls re-
have been on my mind. placed and displaced the for-
mer pagan feast.
Its only natural, I suppose
in the most literal kind of way. All Hallowsor All Saints
As the sun rounds anoth- as we know it now (the Lat-
er corner, the hours of night in saints replacing the Sax-
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O
nce the Church emer-
ged from centuries of The blood of the martyrs is
persecution, it was nat- the seed of the Church. So
ural that they built churches wrote Tertullian, a third cen-
over the tombs of their mar- tury Christian writer who
tyrs. Our practice of dedicat- lived in North Africa. He knew
ing churches to a specific saint whereof he spoke. Before
or saints began in that manner. Constantine brought peace to
In the Middle Ages, the prac- the Church, Christians went
tice emerged of placing a rel- through periods of violent
ic of a saint in a stone on the persecution. They found so-
altar. Granted, this occasioned lace and encouragement in the
an industry selling bones of heroism of men and women,
dubious authenticity; no prac- clergy and laity, of every class
tice known to man is immune and race, who suffered and
to abuse. The tradition was died during the persecutions.
virtuous and inspired devo-
tion; corruption calls for ref- As we remember these peo-
ormation, not for destruction. ple in our daily worship, it
is good to acknowledge that
In reaction against this they are not dead exemplars,
abuse, many post-Reforma- like George Washington or
tion churches were dedicated Florence Nightingale. Its odd
to the Trinity, or Christ, or that many of us shudder when
Emmanuel, or Grace. Angli- we see a statue or icon in our
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that is set before us, looking hen I was at Se-
unto Jesus, the author and wanee as a semi-
finisher of our faith. We are narian, I was fortu-
never alone, never deprived nate enough to be able to
of caring companions. Even do my field education at All
when we feel most isolated, Saints Chapel. It was the
our prayer can be, May bless- practice to record 1 + all the
ed Mary and all the saints pray saints in the service register
with me and for me. Amen. when only the officiant was
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M
y parents divorced and it was time for my father to
when I was in high drive home, he said he wanted
school, but were al- to talk to me about something
ways careful not to involve very important. I knew this
me in any tensions that were was going to be one of those
straining their relationship, emotional expressions of love,
determined that the relation- eliciting a response that was
ship we shared would remain so easy to embrace as a small
positive, without placing me child curled up on Daddys
in the middle of their situa- lap, yet somehow awkward
tion. As it turned out, I lived and embarrassing as a teen
with my mother and my fa- growing into adulthood.
ther moved to another town.
In my minds eye, I can still
Even though we lived apart,
see him sitting on the couch,
I loved my father very much.
patting the cushion next to
Fortunately I got to spend
him, Son, come here a mo-
some time with him in spite of
ment please I went over
the distance between us and
to where he was, it being all I
I cherished those times we
could do to keep from rolling
shared together.
my eyes with vexation, lacking
A few years after the divorce, the depth and understand-
my father came for one of his ing to respond with the same
visits and we spent the whole grace that was being offered to
weekend doing those things me. Being callow, I might have
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even been irritated by the un- had been there, or been avail-
folding situation. Anger and able, maybe think of things
irritation, I am told, are often you wished you had told me,
caused by fear. If so, my fear or things you wish you had
was caused by not wanting not said to me, when you re-
to be exposed, even in a little flect on bad or sad memories,
way, to the truth that I was not know that I do not want you
really being attentive enough troubled.
to my father, showing and
expressing my love more, or He went on to say, What
doing those things I ought to matters is the love, and that is
have done. I was feeling the eternal. God gave you to me
need to justify myself, before as a gift of love, and in God,
my father had even begun that love is forever. I forgive
what he had to say. you now for all things in the
past, the present, and the fu-
I sat down beside my father. ture, and want you to know I
He placed his arm around love you more than life itself.
my neck and drew me close, Do you hear me?
touching his forehead next to
mine, looking straight into my He had tears in his eyes, and
eyes, as he had when I was a I wanted to get away from the
little boy. He said, Van, when situation, so I said something
you look back on life, I want like, Yeah, Dad, of course I
you to know how much I love understand He smiled at
you I couldnt bear it, Oh me a knowing smile. My fa-
dad, please Unwilling to be ther knew what I was feeling
deterred he continued, Lis- and thinking, as he always
ten to me son, when you think seemed to, but I also believe
of the things you wish we had that in his heart he believed
done, or times you wish you that one day I would value the
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Christ, one of those witness-
es, where he will embrace me, he celebration of the
and hold me fast, and I can Eucharist is the sacra-
tell him face to face, Daddy, ment par excellence of
I love you. the church and the primary
locus of her communion with
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ical conversation about the
THE EUCHARIST often-ambiguous commu-
AND THE nion of the saints must begin
COMMUNION OF and end with a robust under-
standing of koinonia in, with,
THE SAINTS and through the Trinity. The
powerful imagery of heavenly
The Rev. Porter C. Taylor worship portrayed in Revela-
( 2015)
Overland Park, KS tion 4-5 comes to earthly fru-
ition in our own sacrifice of
In the fullness of time, put all praise and thanksgiving. It is
things in subjection under your my contention that the church
Christ, and bring us to that militant is most connect-
heavenly country where, with ed to the church triumphant
all your saints, we may enter through her doxological and
the everlasting heritage of your eucharistic worship.
sons and daughters; through
Koinonia and the Godhead
Jesus Christ our Lord, the first-
born of all creation, the head of In line with the writings of
the Church, and the author of John Zizioulas, our first step
our salvation. toward true communion (koi-
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nonia) must begin with the been adopted into the cove-
self-contained, mutual, and nant family of God and made
self-giving fellowship of the co-heirs of his kingdom.
Trinity. Our koinonia with the
Father, the Son, and the Holy The sacramental life of the
Spirit is based on the invita- church draws us into deeper
tion to participate in the love relationship with the Trinity.
that overflows from, and has In the waters of baptism we
eternally existed within, the are initiated as covenant fam-
Three-in-One. To be truly hu- ily members and united with
man is to be in communion Christs death and resurrec-
with God for there is no ex- tion in the name of the Father,
istence outside of and apart the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
from him. Through the ministry of the
Holy Spirit, we have commu-
Throughout Scripture, God nion with God when we cele-
made it possible for his peo- brate the Eucharist as both the
ple to commune with him: he reaffirmation of our baptismal
tabernacled with Israel as vows and the realization of
she wandered through the des- our priestly (of all believers)
ert; God took up residence calling to be the church.
in the Temple in Jerusalem; he
Communion of the Saints
spoke through prophets, judg-
es and kings and delivered his The hymn The Churchs One
people time and time again. Foundation states profound-
He was most fully revealed ly, Yet she on earth hath
through the incarnation, life, union with God the Three in
teachings, ministry, healings, One; And mystic sweet com-
crucifixion, resurrection, and munion with those whose rest
exaltation of Jesus of Naza- is won. Communion with
reth. Through Christ we have the saints only comes in and
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he Apostles Creed worship. It makes one think
states a belief in the of those saints who have pre-
Communion of Saints, ceded usrighteous servants
and this comes after the affir- of God who, as the 1979 Book
mation of belief in the Holy of Common Prayer helpfully
Ghost. In that third paragraph puts it, are both known to us
of the Creed, the church pro- and unknown.
claims her trust and belief
in the on-going work of the This union of the dead with
Spirit: forgiving sins, raising the living has both a near and
to new life, building the one far reach. On the one hand,
church of God, and establish- there are those family mem-
ing communion among its bers and loved ones, mentors
members. and friends, who have preced-
ed us in death. Their deaths
I have frequently thought of put before us the cold truth
this communion as princi- that our earthly fellowship
pally a communion between with them is at an end. There
the living and dead, what was will be no more phone calls or
classically called the Church letters, no more Christmases
Militant and Church Tri- together or family dinners. In
umphant. It is a moving and the deaths of these loved ones,
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er how in the Holy Commu- the feeling of absence, and yet
nion when the celebrant says, the Church affirms an on-go-
Therefore with Angels and ing communion, which is
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I
his communion, although this
was raised, more or less,
word can only be used equiv-
within the Mennonite tra-
ocally since the lineage of
dition in a small city in
Adam blindly smashes every
Kansas that had a large
act of communion and fellow-
Mennonite population. The
ship by sin and selfishness. By
surnames of Epp, Enz, Re-
grace, we belong to the new
gier, Schmidt, and Reimer
Adam, our Lord Jesus. As St.
loomed large in my forma-
John reminds us again and
tion. My mother was original-
again, truly our fellowship is
ly a Reimer and her mother
with the Father, and with his
a Schmidt. From there, I can
Son Jesus Christ . . . and if we
trace my tribe back to the sec-
walk in the light, as he is in the
ond and largest Mennonite
light, we have fellowship one
Colony in Russia, the Mo-
with another (1 John 1:3,7).
lotschna Colony. I grew up
As we belong to him and live
eating Verenika, Zwieback,
in him, we become part of this
and Pfefferne. Not only
spiritual family, this commu-
was I raised in the Mennonite
nion of saints that will ever
Church, I was educated there.
grow in charity.
When I felt God calling me
into ministry, I did so within
the Mennonite Church where
I received my undergradu-
ate degrees from Mennonite
institutions and then went to
work as a Mennonite youth
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hen I grew up on witness to the love and bless-
the Caribbean is- ing of God. The saints are a
land of Barbados, community which is gathered
there was an old adage that around Jesus, a fellowship that
was often said: it takes a com- recognizes who they are and to
munity to raise a child. And whom their obedience, their
it did. People in a community commitment, and their faith-
came together for occasions fulness lie.
like church, social events, fel-
lowship, and meetings. We In the Apostles or baptismal
knew the people in our com- creed, Anglicans or Episco-
munity and they knew us. We palians, Roman Catholics,
shared in community and met and other Christian denom-
together for activities. In the inations affirm their belief in
same way, people in a partic- the communion of saints: I
ular area in Barbados func- believe in the Holy Spirit, the
tioned as a community; so holy catholic church, the com-
too the communion of saints munion of saints, the forgive-
function as a community. ness of sins, the resurrection
of the body, and the life ever-
The communion of saints is lasting. What does this ref-
an appropriate topic on which erence to the communion of
to ponder as we celebrate the saints in the Apostles Creed
Feast of All Saints on Novem- mean? Is it referring to those
ber 1, and the Commemora- who have died, having lived
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ave you ever asked or an inclusion of the saints in
been asked: Why do our common life of prayer,
we have special days in recognition not only of the
to celebrate saints? or Why past but of the present reali-
do we add Mary and oth- ty that, as we give thanks, we
er saints to the prayers? or step out of time and space
What do we mean when we into the transcendent fullness
say I believe in the commu- of the Christian community
nion of the saints? gathered together across the
ages. We are gathered with all
Each time that I reflect on the the saints as one holy catholic
topic of the saintsnot just and apostolic church, as the
those heroic witnesses but all one mystical body of Christ.
the faithful departedit is We are in, and share commu-
not only the saints and their nion with, the saints because
lives which hold my attention, of that which we hold in com-
but what we have in com- mon: one body and one Spirit;
mon, our shared communion. one hope in Gods call to us;
That word makes its way into one Lord, one Faith, one Bap-
a number of conversations tism; one God and Father of
and activities in the life of the all; one bread and one cup. In
church. We hear it in the in- Christ, and by the indwelling
tentional relationships of the of the Holy Spirit, we are one
faithful one to another. We with the saints.
find it in our sacramental life
and the coming together of
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own hearty and humble s a kid I was fascinated
endeavours, above the lev- by adventure stories,
el of ordinary Christians: in books and film. Star
and believing this, I am Wars comes to mind and so
without excuse, if I mis- does Jules Vernes Twenty
trust the power of the same Thousand Leagues Under the
Spirit to preserve me from Sea. Later on, I discovered
wilful and habitual sin: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia
I am without excuse, if I books, and Tolkiens Middle
knowingly give way to any Earth. More recently, I loved
temptation, under the plea the film Finding Neverland
of its being irresistible. about the life of Peter Pan au-
thor J. M. Barrie and I was not
I believe in the communion of the only one to get swept up in
the saints because with them I the Harry Potter series. Some
hold fast to our common faith of these adventure stories have
in the Lord Jesus Christ, to a bent towards naturalism,
the power of the Holy Spirit, some are pure science fiction,
and to the grace, mercy, and others verge on fantasy, while
love of our heavenly Father. others are located at the in-
tersection of myth, real life,
religious symbolism, and the
creative process in general.
Each of them is very different
from the others.
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Yet they all share one com- own communities. All around
mon feature: whether through us, there is usually more hap-
accident, fortune, destiny, pening than meets the eye.
or providence, each of their Lots of stories go untold, un-
protagonists is brought to an written, and unread. The
awareness of a whole world past stretches behind us, ev-
they did not previously know ery passing moment another
existed. From Luke Skywalk- door closed to all but scholars
er and the Force, to the Peven- and memory. The future lies
sies and Narnia, to J.M. Barrie ahead, misty and inscrutable
and the wondrous world of apart from a volatile compos-
ordinary things, each of them ite of predictions, forecasts,
finds their horizon expand- and the limitless potential of
ed to encompass a broader human personalities. Every
spectrum of time, place, and person, every corner of our
people than they might oth- lives, is a treasure trove of
erwise have thought possible. undiscovered country. New
Much of these stories appeal worlds await us at every turn,
lies in the way we as readers and adventure stories remind
(or viewers) tag along as the us that we had better get busy
characters explore the worlds exploring them: there is an
opening before them, and in awful lot to see and learn and
the way we participatehow- do before time disappears, or
ever distantly or vicariously the neighbors move away, or
in what those worlds have to we are given new responsibili-
offer. ties at work.
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they also may be sanctified in
e often think of truth (John 17:17-19).
the communion of
saints as something Words like these from Jesus,
having to do with those souls meant to be great comfort,
who have achieved mystical are unfortunately the stuff of
union with God in the life that which great fights and schisms
is to come. But the idea needs are made. If sanctification is
to be larger and more practi- to be found in the truth, then
cal than just that. If we cannot those who arent upholding
see that mystical communion the truth as we see it are not
as lived out here in the lives sanctified. And if they are
of the saints who make up the not sanctified, then they are
body of Christ on earth, then not true Christians. For close
it isnt a particularly useful to two thousand years now,
doctrine. The union of the the idea of truth and who
life to come must be seen as has it has been at the root of
a perfection of the unity lived excommunications, anathe-
out here, however imperfectly, mas, schisms, and bloodshed.
in the lives of the saints who Since our very beginning,
make up the Church. Christians have been almost
constantly bickering about
In his great high priestly who is or is not a real Chris-
prayer in Johns gospel, Jesus tian. And at the heart of the
says, Father, sanctify those fighting is always this idea of
you have given to me in the truth.
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actually off by the letter D. Pi- son. The truth is Jesus himself.
late asked, quid, what. He And he cannot be controlled;
might better have asked, qui, he cannot be boxed in. And in
who. Our question is most him, it is impossible for us to
properly, Who is the truth? divide ourselves and declare
and the answer is, Jesus. In who is in and who is out.
Johns gospel, Jesus has al-
ready given us the answer Jesus prayer is not that we be
when he identifies himself sanctified in an idea, or in a
as the way, the truth, and the particular interpretation of an
life. The gospel opens with idea. Jesus prays to the Father
the declaration that Jesus is that we might be sanctified
Gods word and Jesus tells us in him. Jesus sanctifies him-
in his high priestly prayer that self, walks the way of the cross
Gods word is truth. No story and dies and is raised, that we
about Jesus can truly claim to might be sanctified in him,
be Gods word. No liturgy in that we might live in him, that
praise of Jesus can truly claim we might find him to be the
to be the truth. No formular- answer to the great longing
ies or testimony about Jesus question of our hearts, What
can truly claim to be the truth. is truth? Jesus is the truth.
Only Jesus himself, in his flesh And Jesus calls us to live in
and in his Spirit, is the truth. that truth, to live in him. Je-
sus calls us to walk the way of
We so very desperately want the cross, to be crucified to the
the truth to be ideas. Ideas world, and to be raised. Jesus
can be controlled. Ideas can calls us to love him and each
be boxed in. Ideas can allow other and the world. Jesus
one group to be in and anoth- calls us to be the truth just as
er to be out. But the truth is he is the truth. Jesus calls us
not an idea. The truth is a per- to live fully into the mystery of
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very time I return to my but her one request was that
hometown, I make a vis- she be remembered at the al-
it to my mothers grave. tar of God. She understood
The visit is never long. I read that while her body may rest
her name in the headstone in the earth, her soul would
and the dates below. I admire be on pilgrimage. She asked
the yellow flowers that my Augustine to remember her at
father diligently keeps fresh, the celebration of the Eucha-
and I say a prayer. I linger a rist not only that his prayers
bit, perhaps awkwardly, not might aid her as she grows
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communion. We confess to they ascend to the Father?
each other and to the whole May God help us to believe
communion of saints because and trust in his great gift and
we are accountable to each promise of the communion of
other in our baptismal fel- saints.
lowship. But even more, we
confess to the communion of Every time I go to the cem-
saints so that we may benefit etery that keeps my moth-
from their example and their ers grave, I know that my
prayers. The highway of prayer gut-feelings are trustworthy
has two lanes. We pray for and sound. I know that the
those who have died so that love she had for me, and I for
they may grow from strength her, has not vanished. Like Au-
to strength, and we ask those gustine, I pray for my mother
we know are already strong in at the altar and I believe and
the presence of God to pray trust in that communion that
for us. We have no problem the Church promises. I believe
at all asking others to pray for and trust in that communion
us. We certainly have no prob- which is not self-serving or
lem airing our troubles and purely sentimental, but a com-
failures on social media and munion that is real and holy
over a cup of coffee to a trust- because it is bound and an-
ed friend or sometimes even chored in the Glorified Christ.
a stranger. Why not trust that The Communion of Saints has
the Body of Christ extends its power not because we are
into a greater mystery? Why joined to each other, but be-
not include those who lived cause we are all joined to our
and died with heroic faith to Lord Jesus.
pray for us and, like incense,
throw their prayers on the
hot coals of Christs love so
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B
y far my favorite part Judge of all men...; ...and the
of the Prayer Book is blessing of God Almighty, the
what we call the Gener- Father, the Son, and the Holy
al Thanksgiving. Its called a Ghost... This is who we wor-
general thanksgiving because, ship and who we love above
like the General Confession, all others, not because he is
its meant to be prayed by all almighty, however, but just
the congregation, and it cov- because he is God. Or to put
ers all the bases. In fact, one it even more succinctly, and
of the key words it uses re- more mysteriously, just be-
peatedly is one that Ive just cause he is.
used repeatedly: all. It even
begins with that word by ad- In the General Thanksgiv-
dressing God as Almighty, ing, we go on to address our
which is a contraction of all Almighty God as Father of
mighty/powerful. God holds all mercies. What is mer-
all power over all things in cy? We usually think of it
his hands. We use that word as something like pity, as
(almighty) all the time in the when people with some sort
liturgy, probably without real- of affliction pleaded with Je-
ly considering what it means sus for mercy, but its much
most of the time. Almighty more than that. Mercy is the
God, unto whom all hearts be compassionate love of God
open...; I believe in one God for his creatures. We pray for
the Father Almighty, Maker his mercy in particular ways,
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son of his Son, who is himself And having been nourished
the means of grace. Jesus is by him and filled with him,
the way we respond, the way the only way we can possi-
we give God the Father our bly respond is by putting our
most humble and hearty thanksgiving into action: By
thanks for all [his] goodness giving up ourselves to [his]
and loving-kindness. St. Paul service, And by walking be-
says that if you confess with fore [him] in holiness and
your lips that Jesus is Lord, righteousness all our days.
and believe in your heart Loving him in return, loving
that God raised him from the who he loves, and loving the
dead, you will be saved (Rom way he lovesthats what it is
10.9). As the Word of God, Je- to walk before him in holiness
sus is the supreme expression and righteousness.
of divine love. He is every-
thing that God has to say to Having died with Christ in
us. And Jesus is the only thing baptism, and having been
that we can say to God in re- filled with him in our eucha-
sponse to that love. He is our ristic worship, we are part of
thanksgiving to God. his Body. As St. Paul puts it,
I have been crucified with
He is our Eucharistthats Christ. It is no longer I who
the Greek word for thanksgiv- live, but Christ who lives in
ing. And thats what we do in me. And the life I now live in
Church every week. We come the flesh I live by faith in the
seeking Jesus, and he really Son of God, who loved me
does speak to us through the and gave himself for me (Gal
proclamation of his Gospel, 2.20). Living for the God who
and he really does feed us lives in us, giving up our-
with his Body and Blood in selves to [his] servicethat
the sacrament of the Altar. is how we give thanks.
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DEATHS
THE REV. EDGAR GEORGE of the Transfiguration. He
ADAMS, SR., 83, also served as chaplain and
in Richmond, VA. headmaster of the Bethany
School in Cincinnati and as
A graduate of the Philadel- chaplain at Christ School in
phia Divinity School, he was Arden, SC.
ordained in 1959 and served
parishes in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Virginia. He THE REV. KEITH
also served as a Navy chap- JOHNSON, 53,
lain. At the time of his death in Harlem, NY.
he was priest associate at St.
Marks, Richmond. A graduate of Virginia Theo-
logical Seminary, he was or-
dained in 2001 and served
THE REV. JAMES M. parishes in Florida, Califor-
HINDLE, 89, nia, and Louisiana before be-
in Hendersonville, NC. ing called as rector of St. Phil-
ips, Harlem, in 2012. He was
A 1952 graduate of General one of six Fellows in the Faith
Theological Seminary in New and Justice Fellowship pro-
York City, he served parish- gram under the Federation of
es in Mt. Holly, Tryon, and Protestant Welfare and Agen-
Greensboro, North Caroli- cies and New York Theologi-
na. His first and final parish cal Seminary.
was in Bat Cave at the Church
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THE RT. REV. RUSTIN
KIMSEY, 79,
in The Dalles, OR. TAD on
A 1960 graduate of the Epis-
copal Theological School in
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Council. He was consecrated
as the fifth bishop of the Di-
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