Parish Discernment Info Day!
Discernment Info Day
As you are aware, the Diocese of Easton is without a Diocesan Bishop with the resignation of the Rt. Rev. Santosh Marray and the Standing Committee is currently the Ecclesiastical Authority. Before beginning a bishop search the Standing Committee has called for a period of discernment to consider our future as the Episcopal Church on the Eastern Shore. The Diocese of Easton’s Discernment Committee has prepared a three-phase program to help discern our future.
Phase One is to educate ourselves about what a diocese is and to understand the current state of the Diocese of Easton. For Phase Two the Discernment Committee will go out to the diocese to engage in conversations and to conduct surveys to find out what we in the diocese value and what our priorities are as the church on the Eastern Shore. In Phase Three the people of the diocese will determine how best to organize ourselves as a diocese for the future of the Diocese of Easton.
In Phase One we are trying to reach as many people as possible and believe that can best be done at the parish level, where people come together regularly. To ensure that lay and clergy have the same baseline of information we ask that each parish commit to organizing a Parish Discernment Information Day in which parishioners all view the same instructional video and then have a discussion using the same discussion questions, and recording responses and sending them back to the Discernment Committee.
St. Mary Anne’s Discernment Info Day is
Scheduled for August 23, 2026
One Service Only at 9:00AM