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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
The Resurrection must be understood in significantly different images and metaphors in the southern hemisphere, when Easter always arrives in the transition from summer to winter. Even as a hard, hard winter lingers on in northern climes, with unaccustomed April snow in many places, we yearn for the new life we know is waiting around the corner. As Christians, we’re meant to have the same hunger for the new creation emerging all around us. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:
For almost a century, the Good Friday Offering has been a source of support, love, and hope for our brothers and sisters in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. This year’s 89th Good Friday Offering offers us the opportunity to join in deepening the bond we have with the churches and people in the land of the Holy One. I have been deeply moved by the stories of pain that conflict and division bring to the lives of every person in that Province of the Anglican Communion. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
 For he himself knows whereof we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. – Psalm 103:14
Presiding Bishop Katharine’s message for Lent on video.
The way in which we use our resources is a spiritual matter.
The way in which we live on this earth is a matter of of faithfulness. Can we act in solidarity with those who are preparing to enter this community and do so more thoughtfully and in a compassionate way that considers all of God’s creation? I invite you to a blessed and holy Lent, to a Lent of prayer, study and compassion, through almsgiving and fasting.
Video (more…)
Tags: Lent, Presiding Bishop, resources, The Episcopal Church
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/newsline_124319_ENG_HTM.htm
September 3, 2010
To: Members of The Episcopal Church
From: The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate
Dr. Bonnie Anderson, President, The House of Deputies
Rosalie Simmonds Ballentine, Esq. Chair, Executive Council D-020 Task Force
The final draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant was released in mid-December, 2009 for formal consideration for adoption by constituent Provinces of the Anglican Communion through appropriate processes. (more…)
Tags: Anglican Covenant, Official, Presiding Bishop, The Anglican Communion, The Episcopal Church
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Pentecost continues!
Pentecost is most fundamentally a continuing gift of the Spirit, rather than a limitation or quenching of that Spirit.
 The recent statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury about the struggles within the Anglican Communion seems to equate Pentecost with a single understanding of gospel realities. Those who received the gift of the Spirit on that day all heard good news. The crowd reported, “in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power” (Acts 2:11).
The Spirit does seem to be saying to many within The Episcopal Church that gay and lesbian persons are God’s good creation, that an aspect of good creation is the possibility of lifelong, faithful partnership, and that such persons may indeed be good and healthy exemplars of gifted leadership within the Church, as baptized leaders and ordained ones. The Spirit also seems to be saying the same thing in other parts of the Anglican Communion, and among some of our Christian partners, including Lutheran churches in North America and Europe, the Old Catholic churches of Europe, and a number of others. (more…)
Tags: Justice, LGBTQ, Pastoral Letter, Prayer, Presiding Bishop, The Anglican Communion, The Episcopal Church
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