Save the Date: The 107th Annual Diocesan Convention will be held Oct. 17 and 18, 2008, at the Sheraton Hotel in Springfield.

This Convention will feature the Three Cantors from Canada.

Complete Convention Coverage here in the December 2007 Pastoral Staff

TWELFTH ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE BISHOP
The Right Reverend Gordon P. Scruton
at the Convention of
THE DIOCESE OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

(Part 1 was presented at Friday Evening Prayer at the Sheraton Hotel on October 26, and Part 2 was presented as the sermon at the Eucharist at Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts Saturday morning, October 27.

“Whereas it is of great consequence that the Annual Address of the Bishop of the Diocese be presented formally to the congregations of the Diocese, Be it resolved: that the clergy of the Diocese be advised if it be agreeable and convenient to them, to read to the respective congregations, on the Sunday following the Convention, every year, the Address of the Bishop.”

NOTE FROM THE BISHOP:
Clergy may feel free to use excerpts from this address as they deem most helpful.

Download the PDF document here.