From this week's Virtue Viewpoint: 55 lawsuits

Instead of being an incentive for living a life of holiness, God's love has become an excuse for every base human desire--- Fr. Miguel Grave de Peralta, Augusta, Georgia

Dear Brothers and Sisters
www.virtueonline.org
6/12/2009

The Episcopal Church USA will soon have a now slogan. In light of the some 55 lawsuits and untold millions being spent on litigation, TEC will have a new video for you all to share with your friends - "The Episcopal Church: Can you feel the Love".

Katharine Jefferts Schori, TEC's Presiding Bishop, will take you on an ecclesiastical bus tour of the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Quincy, San Joaquin and Ft. Worth where there is so much love evident that thousands of unchurched locals, disillusioned Catholics, reviled homosexuals and lesbians, and burned out evangelicals are pouring into Episcopal churches to witness the unprecedented love never before seen in the 400-year old history of the church.

THE lawsuits keep piling up. Rarely does a week go by without another lawsuit either being filed or resolved and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to satisfy The Episcopal Church and keep another parish safely in its bosom, even though most of the occupants have fled to safer spiritual sanctuaries, never more to return.