This summer, Father Phil Jackson encourages us to consider the stories we tell ourselves and to reclaim our Christian narrative: For God so loved the world. “God’s fundamental orientation towards all the world is love.”
On Visitation Sunday, Mother Beth shared her hope that “sometime, whether in this place or out in the world, you have experienced the awe of being suddenly in God’s presence. . . or felt a bit of the texture of heaven.”
“How do we recognize the power of the Holy Spirit?" asked The Rt. Rev. Mary D. Glasspool, Assistant Bishop of New York, in her sermon on Pentecost Sunday.
Holy Eucharist according to Rite Two in the Book of Common Prayer.
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Today we celebrate Ascension Day, which commemorates the ascension of Christ into heaven after he rose from the dead. Ascension Day also marks the anniversary of the consecration of the current Trinity Church building in 1846.
The Very Rev. Dr. David Monteith, Dean of England's Canterbury Cathedral, looks to the story of Philip and the Ethiopian from the Acts of the Apostles to guide us in communicating and connecting with those who hold differing opinions, past experiences, and labels from us. He references Jesus's refusal to perpetuate a cycle of violence and revenge, and the wisdom the Bible provides for standing with excluded peoples.
What does it mean for Earth Sunday and Good Shepherd Sunday to fall on the same day? For Mother Beth, it’s a reminder that Jesus, our loving and tenderhearted shepherd, calls us to care for our neighbors just as much as we care for our beautiful world.
