So. How Do You Feel…, Easter Day (A) – 2011
[…] So. How do you feel? In the words of the Easter Vigil, “now that our Lenten observance is ended,” are you greeting with great joy and enthusiasm the Paschal mystery, […]
Last minute ideas for Lenten reading
Still not sure what you’re going to be reading during Lent? Here are some ideas from Church Publishing: Love Set Free: In this book of meditations on the Passion according to […]
Next up for the Good Book Club – Romans during Epiphany
Following a successful and well-received Good Book Club during Lent and Easter, plans are being finalized for the next Good Book Club journey – the reading of St. Paul’s Letter […]
EPPN LENTEN SERIES: Care of Creation, Evangelism, and Reconciliation
[…] Father in heaven is merciful.” -Luke 6:36 Today marks the beginning of the season of Lent, and as Christians, we will spend the next 40 days in preparation and reflection. […]
Sermon preached at Belfast Cathedral
[…] T. Griswold Presiding Bishop and Primate The Episcopal Church, USA Belfast Cathedral Second Sunday in Lent February 20, 2005 Readings: Genesis 12:1-4; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17 The Lord said […]
April Webinars: Resurrection and End-of-Life Planning
[…] One of the things I used to do when I was a parish priest during Lent was hold a workshop to help people begin to think about their funerals. While […]
Service and Sacrifice: Lenten Meditation, 3/28/2013
[…] that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) Since Lent is a time of self-examination and confession, let me start out by confessing something […]
A Year in the Life: Sundays with Marilee
By Kyran Pittman On the second Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2020, I brought my mom, Marilee, with me to church. We sat on the left side of the nave, […]
Lenten Series: Week 2 Tenets for Civil Discourse
[…] humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 We invite you to use our five-week Civil Discourse Curriculum for Lent to better understand and practice civil discourse particularly as it relates to politics, policy, […]
Epiphany: Carrying the Light of Christ into the Darkness
[…] is a wonderful liturgical season that sometimes gets lost between the bookends of Christmas and Lent; however, I think Epiphany is a really important moment to engage with, particularly in […]
The Good Book Club: February 11 through Pentecost
Ash Wednesday nears, and a new, collaborative Lenten resource, The Good Book Club, starts Sunday, February 11. The Good Book Club is an Episcopal churchwide initiative that invites the reading […]
Remarks by the Presiding Bishop on the NATO Bombing Campaign
Friday in Lent V During a season marked by self examination, repentance and reconciliation to God and one another, we find ourselves witnessing the terrible spectacle of violence and civil […]
Lenten Series: Week 1 Civil Discourse in Context
[…] that you have sent me. (John 17:21) We invite you to use our five-week Civil Discourse Curriculum for Lent to better understand and practice civil discourse particularly as it relates to politics, policy, […]
On Behalf of the Whole…, Easter 7 (A) – 1996
[…] received yesterday at St. Mark’s. As you know we have been praying for you throughout Lent and Eastertide and we rejoice that God has finally brought you to this point […]
Ash Wednesday meets UNCSW 63: Sacred Lenten stories call us to sacred dialogue
[…] calls us to reflect and lament as we contemplate, over the next 40 days of Lent, Jesus’ act of compassion that relieved us of our sorry, sinful state. As it […]
Nearly 10,000 hits in first day to IamEpiscopalian.org
[…] our Church, and others want to hear them,” commented Anne Rudig, director of communication. “ Lent is the obvious time to examine one’s spiritual life and reconnect.” IamEpiscopalian.org, which debuted […]
Remember, Ash Wednesday – 2006
[…] that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.â BCP 265 The season of Lent begins with one word: Remember. âRemember,â says priest or minister as a cross of […]
Most Episcopalians Are Familiar…, All Saints’ Day (C) – 2007
[…] of prayer and liturgy that takes us from Advent through Christmas and Epiphany, on through Lent and Easter, and into the long stretch of Sundays after Pentecost. Fewer among us […]
God Is Much Bigger, Proper 4 (C) – 2016
The Great Fifty Days of Easter have come and gone. We prepared ourselves in Lent for the passion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. During the Great Fifty Days […]
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishops Easter Message: Alleluia! Keep practicing that joyful shout. Alleluia!
[…] have seen a great light. (Isa 9:2; Matt 4:16) The Diocese of Haiti has observed Lent in a very different way this year. When Bishop Duracin and I spoke just […]