"Your hands are a sacrament of mission"

Every Triennial, ECW delegates receive a cross unique to that year. The Presiding Bishop blesses and personally distributes the crosses. Here’s the cross for 2012. In her homily on Sunday, July 8, during the Holy Eucharist and United Thank Offering Ingathering, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who’d distributed the crosses just days before, talked about the work of Episcopal Church Women, particularly as it relates to the UTO: “I see the hands of Episcopal Church Women extended to receive those crosses and it’s a blessing. Those individual hands symbolize prophetic work reaching out across borders, boundaries and instruments of division.”