The Blessed Virgin Mary,
stained glass window in Grace Church.
An abbreviated Plainfield Today today -- am off to the ordination of my friend Susan Ironside as a 'transitional' deacon at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton this morning. 'Transitional' because she will soon be ordained to the priesthood.
Susan is yet another candidate for the priesthood arising out of Grace Episcopal Church in recent years. She and her husband, Andrew Moore (who was Grace's organist for ten years) were deeply involved in parish life before Andrew was lured away by St. John's-on-the-Mountain in Bernardsville.
John Hartman, who lived in Plainfield many years, was recently ordained an Episcopal priest and is serving an Anglo-Catholic parish in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania.
Peter Manzo, now rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Cherry Hill is the third priest out of Grace Church. Peter, a former Roman Catholic deacon, was drawn to Grace Church after stopping by a plant sale at which Lois Mattson and I were volunteering the Saturday before Mother's Day one year. He and his wife Joan started attending the next day and ultimately Peter, an attorney with a practice in immigration law, was ordained.
Quite a record for a modest urban parish that may have thought its glory days were past.
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