A joint message from the Vestry and the Search Committee:
Earlier this month, after a year of deliberation, the Search Committee unanimously recommended to the Vestry a candidate for our open rector position. The Vestry voted unanimously to issue a call. We are pleased, proud and excited to announce that the Reverend E. Suzanne Wille (pronounced 'Willy') has accepted the call and will become the next Rector of All Saints.
Mother Suzanne was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Raldolph-Macon Woman's College in 1992. She received a Master of Arts in English degree from Indiana University in 1996. She taught English in a Catholic high school for girls in Chicago for ten years before discerning her call to the ordained ministry. She received her Master of Divinity degree and the E. William Muehl Prize in Preaching from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2009. While a seminarian intern at St. Paul’s, Norwalk, famous for its “smells and bells” and its theology of Radical Welcome, she came to love Anglo-Catholic liturgy, to long for worship that was timeless, steeped in beauty and mystery. Mother Suzanne is currently serving as an Interim Pastor at Christ Church in Warwick, New York.
When we met Mother Suzanne, we had the opportunity to share a Solemn Mass with her as Presider and Preacher. The Search Committee and Vestry were all impressed with her attention to the liturgy and her preaching, and we are confident that you will be as well. She subscribes to the progressive Anglo-Catholicism that we try to exercise at All Saints. She is passionate about social justice, outreach and stewardship. Mother Suzanne enjoys knitting, running, and reading novels (often Victorian or 20th century British).
Mother Suzanne and Tracey Lemon, her partner of twelve years, were married in New York state earlier this year. They will be relocating to Indianapolis later this summer, and Mother Suzanne will assume her duties as Rector on or about September 12. Her first mass will be a celebration of the Feast of the Holy Cross on Friday, September 14 at 6pm, and her first Sunday mass will be on Sunday, September 16 at 10am.
Mother Suzanne was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Raldolph-Macon Woman's College in 1992. She received a Master of Arts in English degree from Indiana University in 1996. She taught English in a Catholic high school for girls in Chicago for ten years before discerning her call to the ordained ministry. She received her Master of Divinity degree and the E. William Muehl Prize in Preaching from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2009. While a seminarian intern at St. Paul’s, Norwalk, famous for its “smells and bells” and its theology of Radical Welcome, she came to love Anglo-Catholic liturgy, to long for worship that was timeless, steeped in beauty and mystery. Mother Suzanne is currently serving as an Interim Pastor at Christ Church in Warwick, New York.
When we met Mother Suzanne, we had the opportunity to share a Solemn Mass with her as Presider and Preacher. The Search Committee and Vestry were all impressed with her attention to the liturgy and her preaching, and we are confident that you will be as well. She subscribes to the progressive Anglo-Catholicism that we try to exercise at All Saints. She is passionate about social justice, outreach and stewardship. Mother Suzanne enjoys knitting, running, and reading novels (often Victorian or 20th century British).
Mother Suzanne and Tracey Lemon, her partner of twelve years, were married in New York state earlier this year. They will be relocating to Indianapolis later this summer, and Mother Suzanne will assume her duties as Rector on or about September 12. Her first mass will be a celebration of the Feast of the Holy Cross on Friday, September 14 at 6pm, and her first Sunday mass will be on Sunday, September 16 at 10am.
dear pastor, My sister, Margaret Hannon, invited me to your Christmas service. As we were leaving, you invited me back. Me hopes to be in the service in the morn.
ReplyDeletepax et bonum,
Joseph Hannon