On Numerical Growth in a Parish
Our Feast of Dedication which we celebrate today we are celebrating because it was 103 years ago—that is, on the 19th of November, 1922—that this church was consecrated as a true and canonical local church by Bishop Cameron Mann, Bishop of the then-diocese of South Florida, which included geographically the land of New Smyrna Beach and the surrounding communities. We have the original document of dedication and consecration. One of the statements in the document reads this way: “We do hereby pronounce and declare, that St Paul’s Church, New Smyrna, Florida is consecrated accordingly, and…
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