My Ordination (part 1 of 7): Opening
For those of you who don't know, I was ordained into the priesthood of the New Church at 11am on Sunday morning, May 28th of 2006. Ordained along with me were Vicente Nobre, Chuck Blair, and my younger brother Scott Frazier. The Rt. Rev. Tom Kline officiated. It took place in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral, in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. It was one of the high points of my life, up there with my wedding and with the birth of each of my children.
I've decided to share the ordination via the podcast. Like all my Ivyland sermons, this one is being "pre-dated", that is, I am posting it to an earlier date in time, as if I had podcasting up and running back when the recorded event actually occurred. You will notice that the date of this post here is May 28. The actual "real" date, as I type this, is July 30th, of the same year. I hope you don't get confused. When I was ordained, there was no TheoPod podcast. But now, it's as if there was! Heh.
Anyway, I went back and forth over whether or not to post the whole thing to the podcast, or just excerpts. I like leaving you in freedom to decide these things for yourself, so here goes: I'm posting the entire thing.
There are seven(!) files, altogether. This post links to the first one, containing the opening music.