The Episcopal New Yorker Spring 2013 : Page 13Bishop Dietsche checks the service booklet with the Rev. Canon John Osgood, Canon to the Ordinary, before he knocks on the doors. Bishop Dietsche had earlier arrived at the cathedral to find the Great Bronze Doors facing Amsterdam Avenue closed against him in the traditional manner. He had also, however, arrived with a hammer, with which he struck the doors three times and called out (invisibly but audi-bly to those inside, being wired for sound through the black apparatus at his waist) “Open for me the gates of right-eousness; I will enter them and give thanks to the Lord.” The doors duly opened, and Dean Kowalski welcomed him in. www.episcopalnewyorker.com Spring 2013 THE EPISCOPAL NEW YORKER 13 Publication List |
