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Once again, I am delighted to be with you for the Delaware Valley Region Ambassador Awards Banquet. This annual event is truly a sign we are a community of servant-leaders, who bring their best to the mission of the Church. Whether through their professional lives, or their parish lives, the recipients of tonight’s Awards manifest the truth of the Gospel, and show that they are genuine Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. Once again, I am delighted to be with you for the Delaware Valley Region Ambassador Awards Banquet. This annual event is truly a sign we are a community of servant-leaders, who bring their best to.
Every time that I come to Philadelphia and approach the magnificent Cathedral Saint of George, I am filled with much emotion by the exquisite façade of this edifice. The six Ionic columns – designed by famed Philadelphia architect, John Haviland – have welcomed Christian worshippers for two hundred years. Because, as all of you know, before the temple was dedicated to Saint George by the Greek Orthodox, it was dedicated to Saint Andrew the First-Called Disciple by the Episcopalians, for whom it was built one hundred years earlier. Every time that I come to Philadelphia and approach the magnificent Cathedral Saint of George, I am filled with much emotion by the exquisite façade of this edifice. The six Ionic columns –.