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The
Bishop's Notebook, 26 August 2002
“After
David returns home, he will need follow-up rehabilitation
to recover from this long ordeal, but with the “one-day-at-time”
approach of his cardiologist, and your continuing prayers,
we are optimistic about his future.”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 14 August 2002
“David
Henritzy, formerly of this office, suffered a major heart
attack last Wednesday, August 7, after being admitted to the
hospital with chest pains the previous evening. As most of
you know, the initial prognosis for David was very poor, but
he had a remarkable turnaround on that Wednesday, is continuing
to heal, and his doctors are continually encouraged by his
progress.”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 24 May 2002
“I've
just finished reading an enlightening article in The New Republic
titled "The Principle of Hope" by Sherwin B. Nuland. In it,
Dr. Nuland discusses his reactions to a new book "The Case
Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care"
edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin and just published
by Johns Hopkins Press.
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The
Bishop's Notebook,
26 April, 2002
“I
have
frequently discussed this same concept with clergy colleagues.
I have found one-hundred-percent agreement that funerals provide
a much deeper opportunity to provide the ministrations of
the Church than do weddings. A colleague or two has actually
said to me that funerals are fun. It is often the simplest
expressions of profound theology that mean the most to us
in the long run. ”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 28 March 2002
“This Sunday we will
say "The Lord is risen" and others will respond "The Lord
is risen indeed." What an incredible article of faith this
is. God is able to overcome the most heinous actions mankind
can devise. The relevance to the aftermath of September 11th
is obvious. Those of us in New York and Washington are still
very focussed on those events. But as I travel around the
country I am discovering that many of my colleagues have refocused
their attention on other matters. Towards the end of last
year I wrote in a column that we needed to allow ourselves
to grieve - we were in too much of a rush to "get over it."
”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 07 March 2002
“Bishop
Packard relates to the National Concerns Committee of Council
and was there to present a progress report on the stage of
our response to General Convention Resolution A079 on healthcare.
He and I talked about our concept of the Continuum of Healthcare,
and our emerging HealthWise Congregations initiative. ”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 04 January 2002
“On
the Friday before Christmas, I had the opportunity to spend
the afternoon with one of my real-life heroes and an icon
of the late twentieth century: Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.
Dr. Kübler-Ross, you will recall, wrote the definitional book
“On Death and Dying” which dealt with how we respond to these
crises in our lives. In the ‘60’s she was a practicing psychiatrist
here in New York City and began the then-radical practice
of sitting at the bedside of her dying patients and asking
them to tell her their stories. ”
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The Bishop's
Notebook, 12 January 2001
“The
following article is a reflection by The Rev. Dr. David Henritzy,
Director of Healthcare Ministries of our Office. Recently
David was elected to the Board of The COMISS Network (Congress
on Ministry in Specialized Settings). Courtesy of a resolution
of General Convention, the outreach of Healthcare will receive
a boost with a larger defined area. The intention after that
will be to integrate all parts to be of service to the patient.
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The
Bishop's Notebook, 31 August 2001
“In his on-going effort to expand the role of
the Church in ministering to the healthcare needs of the Church's
people, Bishop Packard recently lunched with The Rev. Andrew
Mullins, rector of Church of the Epiphany in Manhattan. Joining
them were The Rev. Dr. David Henritzy, the Bishop's Director
for Healthcare Ministries, and The Rev. Stephen Harding, who
is a chaplain at the Jacob Perlow Hospice of the Beth Israel
Medical Center, also in Manhattan.... ”
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