Repairing the Breach: New resource for exploring our history with racism

At this year's Annual Council, the Repairers of the Breach Task Force presented "Repairing the Breach: A Resource for exploring our history with racism in Southern Virginia" and an accompanying video. Those materials are available on the  Formation page of our website. Convocations and Parishes will use the materials to initiate conversation, to share stories, both personal and institutional, that will help to transform relationships and to transcend the sin of racism.

 

Resolution R-1, submitted to Council by the Task Force, was passed with friendly amendment. The amended resolution is available here. The resolution designates November 2, 2013 as a Day of Repentance and Reconciliation. A service will be held at Christ and St. Luke's Church, Norfolk, at 11 am on that day for the attendance and participation of the Diocese of Southern Virginia Family. It further resolved that November 2, "All Souls Day" will be designated as the "Day of Repentance and Reconciliation" in the Diocese of Southern Virginia and parishes will annually hold this observance during the octave of All Saints.