A NEW BISHOP - ANOTHER ADJUSTMENT - THE SHOW GOES ON!

A SAD GOODBYE AND A HOPEFUL WELCOME

Over the last year, I have gotten to know Bishop Jason Gordon and have just become comfortable volunteering in his Diocese of Kingstown down in the small island country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, off the coast of South America.

In fact, I just returned from my second trip down there on December 15, 2015. For that reason, it was a shock to get an early morning e-mail from Bishop Gordon on December 22, 2015 announcing that Pope Francis had separated his two dioceses and named a new bishop for the Diocese of Kingstown. Bishop Gordon will be staying in Bridgetown, Barbados, as bishop while Bishop-Elect Gerard County will be coming to Kingstown, SVG.

It is a good move for Bishop Jason Gordon because he will no longer have to maintain the untenable position of trying to serve two dioceses in two different countries. For those of us who have come to respect and love him, it is going to be an adjustment, but for the good of the Church, we welcome Bishop Elect County and look forward to working with him as well.

A BISHOP'S PECTORAL CROSS (LEFT), MITRE (MIDDLE) AND RING (RIGHT)

A BISHOP'S CROZIER

Bishop Elect County's Episcopal ordination will be held in the Cathedral of the Assumption, 

in Kingstown, on February 22, 2016.

GOD'S MYSTERIOUS WAYS

I will be attending the episcopal ordination of Bishop-Elect County since I had already purchased a ticket to go back at that time anyway. In any regard, Louisville would have had a visible presence anyway since a good friend of mine (through our R J Mission Projects fund) accidentally purchased a full set of vestments and a matching white mitre that Bishop-Elect County will wear at his episcopal ordination. We originally ordered the set of vestments for Bishop Gordon and his Cathedral, but the mitre was delayed because we did not have Bishop Gordon's head size. Because of this fortunate delay, instead of measuring Bishop Gordon's head, we were able to measure Bishop Elect County's head just in time! He will be wearing the new vestments and mitre at his ordination as a bishop.