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Episcopal News Weekly Scan to subscribe to The Episcopal News WWW.EPISCOPALNEWS.COM SERVING THE SIX-COUNTY DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES JULY 6, 2014 Facebook page salutes 40th year of women priests orty ordained women “firsts” — first Fpriests, first bishops, first deacons — are being honored on “Episcopal Commons,” a Facebook page dedicated to notable people, events and history that are the legacy of the Episcopal Church. Robert Williams, canon for community relations for the Diocese of Los Angeles, is coordinating the series and the page. He is writing and posting 40 stories of women clergy, counting down the days to July 29, the 40th anniversary of the day that 11 women were “irregularly” ordained to the Episco- pal priesthood at a service in in 1974. General Convention authorized the or- A vigil against the use of torture dination of women to the priesthood in 1976. Members from several faith communities on the Westside Williams has already profiled two of the gathered at St. Augustine-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Philadelphia 11; Jeannette Piccard of Min- Santa Monica on June 26 for an interfaith vigil in honor of nesota, a scientist and high-altitude - the United Nations Day in support of Victims of Torture. ist considered the first woman in space, and Organized by Judith F. Lyons, the event featured interfaith community organizer and social worker Su- readings and prayers, many of them delivered by young zanne Radley Hiatt of . people. Guest speaker was Mia Yamamoto (pictured in But the story of women’s ordination didn’t inset above), a prominent defense attorney and board start there, and Williams has reached further member of International Bridges to Justice, an organization back into history to write about the very first that fights torture by training lawyers and improving legal woman to be ordained in the Anglican Com- systems. Music was provided by members of St. munion, the Rev. Li Tim-Oi, made a priest in Augustine’s, including middle school students Akira 1944 by Bishop Ronald Hall of Hong Kong Shelton, Niko Muntz and Phoebe Muntz (pictured at right), to serve Christians in Macau who were cut off who sang "On the Willows," from the musical Godspell. from all other clergy during the Sino-Japanese The Rev. Nathan Rugh, rector of St. Augustine’s, presided War. Li suffered “re-education” and forced la- at the event, which ended with a candlelit recessional and bor under Chinese communists and rejection individual lighting of candles in the church’s patio in from the worldwide Anglican church for de-

memory of victims of torture. PHOTOS / COLLEEN DODSON BAKER cades after her service in Macau. Williams’ series also includes Phyllis Ed- wards, the first woman ordained as a dea- Episcopal Night at Dodger Stadium is Friday, Sept. 5 con; Pauli Murray, the first African Ameri- can woman ordained an Episcopal priest; he 21st annual Episcopal Night at Dodger Stadium will be and Mary Michael Simpson, first nun to be TFriday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. The Dodgers will play against the ordained a priest. Others entries will profile Arizona Diamondbacks. If enough Episcopalians buy tickets, one Barbara Harris, the first woman bishop in the of the bishops of the diocese will throw out the first pitch; last Anglican Communion; Katharine Jefferts Sch- year Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Carpio of Cuba (center right) ori, first woman presiding bishop; and Diane did the honors, with Bishops Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce and Jardine Bruce and Mary D. Glasspool, first Mary Glasspool calling and catching the strike. Tickets are $21 women bishops in the Diocese of Los Angeles. each, and are available from the Dodger coordinator at each con- To read their stories, search “Episcopal

gregation. A fireworks display will follow the game.? JANET KAWAMOTO Commons” on Facebook. ? AROUND THE DIOCESE FROM THE BISHOPS

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