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The Diocese of Kentucky's Daughters of the King Assembly held its annual spring retreat April 21 at the Episcopal Church Home in Louisville. About 34 Daughters attended the all-day meeting. They represented nine chapters, coming from as far west as Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah.
The retreat featured two lectures by the Rev. Dr. Georgine Buckwalter, chaplin of the DOK assembly and chaplain of St. Luke's Chapel at the Church Home. She spoke on "Anglican Spirituality: Living Perichoresis," exploring what it means for baptized Christians to be made in the image of the tripartite God, to be marked as Christ's own forever, and to live into being a Trinitarian. She began by defining perichoresis, a Greek term meaning interpenetration, as the means by which we may understand the relationship among the three persons of God, not as hierarchical but as mutual, equal and reciprocal. Christians, she suggested, are to mirror this "dynamic, relational" God, living in creative, redemptive and sustaining relationship and acting in constant, mutual interdependence.
Preceding the lectures, the Daughters briefly conducted business and participated in a Taize service. The retreat concluded with Eucharist celebrated by Buckwalter in St. Luke's Chapel.
Founed by a Episcopal women in 1885 in New York, the Daughters of the King is an international order of lay women who take vows of daily prayer and service.
To view a photo album from the retreat, click here. Look for the June issue of the Episcopal News to read more about the retreat and the Daughters of the King.
