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Mandi Rice
and
The Episcopal Church
Mandi Rice
and
The Episcopal Church
Ordination to the Priesthood
Saturday December 7, 2024
The Holy Spirit has come and made me a priest in Christ’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. Thanks be to God! Profound thanks are due in every direction, to names known and unknown, to those present and those afar, to people still living and to the communion of saints. I look forward to a lifetime of expressing gratitude and reflecting on what this day meant. And I look forward to a lifetime of being one more agent for God’s reign of shalom — peace, healing, and wholeness. You can be one, too, no ordination required!
Acknowledgments
God has graced my life with so many people and communities to help me on this journey; it would be impossible to name them all.
I do want to deeply thank my family, the one I was born into and those where we have chosen each other along the way.
Many congregations have shaped and formed me, and I thank you as well: St. Peter's Catholic Church, Kirkwood United Methodist, Eliot Chapel, the Meetings at Earlham College, Torah study at Virginia Cottage, HDS Andover Chapel, Temple Israel in St. Louis, St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newton, Emmanuel Church in Boston, St. Margaret's in Washington, D.C., Immanuel Chapel at VTS, and Emmanuel in Webster Groves.
My chaplaincy colleagues, mentors, and conversation partners have forever changed my life. Thank you to the people of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Hebrew SeniorLife, Franciscan Children's, and Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.
Your influence in my life is like a window of stained glass — so many pieces that make my life whole.
Celebrating
I have gotten some questions about what gifts are appropriate to celebrate an ordination... to which the answer is: your prayers, your presence, and your love are what I cherish!
For some folks, making a gift is important. If that is deeply meaningful for you, you can participate in giving books and food to ministries I care about, or give towards the stoles and clerical shirts that I will need. Thank you!
For all the days along the way