A series of public discussions starting this spring aims to improve relations between local Catholics and Lutherans, build cooperation and mutual respect, and commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
The discussions will culminate in an Oct. 29 ecumenical worship service at Sacred Heart Cathedral, over which Bishop Salvatore R. Matano and Bishop John Stanley Macholz of the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will preside.
The series, which will focus its discussion on the document “Conflict to Communion: Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017” (http://bit.ly/2pMppPK), consists of four panel discussions. The sessions will be facilitated by Father Scott Caton of Greece’s St. Lawrence Church and the Rev. Dan Hoffman of Trinity Lutheran Church in East Amherst. The next session on May 22 will take place at Incarnate Word Lutheran Church in Rochester, and the June 5 and Sept. 7 sessions will take place at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
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