International Presence
at the Church
of the Good Shepherd
Rosemont, Pennsylvania |
4 September 2002
On Sunday 1 September the people of the Church of the Good Shepherd were pleasantly surprised by a new presence in the pulpit. The Preacher and Communion Assistant was Fr. David Chislett, Parish Priest of All Saints, Wickham Terrace, in the Diocese of Brisbane in Australia, and Vice-Chairman of Forward in Faith Australia. He had been present in the USA for the international meeting of Forward in Faith which followed the FiF NA National Assembly in Illinois when he was invited to visit Good Shepherd.
He preached a truly marvelous and moving sermon on the meaning of taking up our cross daily and dying in order to live, supported by the communion of the saints. The sermon was skillfully addressed to the parish of the Good Shepherd in the midst of all their travails.
The reading of that wonderful first Confession of Jeremiah, with its promise of triumph, was followed by Psalm 16: 1-8. Fr David Moyer, doing what he has continued to do throughout the inhibition, read the Epistle, that glorious description of the transformation of the mind and the proving of the will of God in the Body from Romans 12.
He also spoke movingly and at length at the announcements at the Offertory. He was very, very solemn as he shared with his people the events that would soon unfold. After his update he received a sustained round of standing applause for his faithfulness.
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