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Congratulations Katherine , i am impressed ,,,, Of course now you just MUST visit the Holy land , and i will meet you as well ,,,,, What a spiritual family you are !!! WISHING YOU THE BEST OF ALL ,, mirjam in our conference we had a lady Rabbi ,,,,,,,

Katherine, what wonderful news ! I wish you much happiness with your new life.

Rusty in CT and Dusty too

Thank you, Aud. I really wanted to share this with my friends here, for obvious reasons.

Katherine

Thank you, Rusty *and* Dusty. I am sure I will be happy.

Katherine

So Katherine, may we all come with our knitting, if we promis to just knit and listen, no nattering to one and other. If we run into trouble with say knitting a lace pattern, you can always help us after the service.... would be really nice having the RCTY group all together that way. Having discussions about religion and knitting. (big smile)

Katherine

What wonderful news. Yes a new direction in your life but wonderful as well. Yes Montreal weather will be different for you but I know you will handle it.

Darlene in Toronto

LOL OH, wouldn't THAT be fun????

Katherine

Thank you, Darlene. With God's help, I can handle everything - even Montreal weather!

Katherine

Katherine that is wonderful news - congratulations and may God give a special blessing to your studies. one of my best friends is Presbyterian - maybe you could come to her church one day - Who knows? However where ever you go I just know it will be the people whom you serve who will be blessed indeed. I look forward to your posts from Montreal God bless gwen

Katherine at least you will not miss us as we will be right here whenever you have a minute to say hello and I am sure you will feel our prayers for you as you travel this wonderful journey Love and God bless Gwen

Thank you, Gwen. I will be posting from here for the next year, so you will be waiting for a while for my Montreal posts. But be assured, they will come!

Katherine

This is true, Gwen.

Kather> Katherine at least you will not miss us as we will be right here

Wonderful news Katherine! I am so happy for you! You mentioned in another post about living in residence. I just wanted you to know that in Ontario, the O.E.S. has an award with the acronym E.S.T.A.R.L. Stands for "Eastern Star Training Award for Religious Leadership". These awards are for any one training for religious leadership. Now I don't know about the Chapters where you live. I do know that in Ontario you would apply to a local chapter for sponsorship and your name would go to Grand Chapter for consideration. Here, we awarded 51 applicants this year with $1000 each. I do hope you will look into it, where you are. Please ask around in your own neck of the woods and find out if their is a chapter near you. It doesn't necessarily have to be in your home town. Wish you were here, I know my home chapter would have loved to sponsor you! Again, Congratulations!

Katherine, I just realized.... I know you have one more year there, but when the time comes...

You and Kandace have such a close bond. You will both miss each other terribly when you are in Montreal, and then when you are sent to some other parish which could be far away. :o( Will you be able to have her come visit often?

Peace! Gemini

We have thought about that, Gem, and will worry about it when the time comes. Luckily, there are telephones and e-mail, plus frequent holidays while I am in school. After that - who knows? And she is getting older, too, and wanting to be with her friends more often.

Katherine

Thank you, Norma, for the good wishes AND the suggestion. I will definitely have a look in Newfoundland, just to see if there are any O.E.S. chapters there.

Hugs, Kather> Wonderful news Katherine! I am so happy for you! You mentioned in

This is the page that shows the different Grand Chapters all over Canada and the United States. Hopefully it'll give you somewhere to start. Let me know if I can help in some way.

Yes. Mum trained in New York and was ordained in the Americal Episcopal Church but has gone home to Australia where she is an Anglican minister.