In the beauty of our cathedral, surrounded by the “goodness of God” represented by the plants and flowers from Missouri Botanical Gardens, this year’s Flower Festival homilist Bishop Greg Rickel will explore the deeply connected issues of economic and environmental crisis with questions:

• In Genesis we are told that humankind is to have “dominion” over the earth. What does this mean and what has it wrought?
• One of my favorite sayings I was found on a tip jar in a coffee shop. It read, ‘If you fear change, leave it here!’ We are now in a time where we will have to change, and there is much fear, reaction, and entrenching surrounding that fear. What is the Church’s role in thi
• How can we be examples to the world, instead of merely falling in with the world?
• Could this time actually be a fertile ground for the Holy Spirit to move us to a new way of being Church, and a new way of walking on this earth? And, best of all, might we have fun and actually grow closer to one another doing it?

Saturday:
11 a.m. Festival Eucharist, Bishop Rickel (homilist), Bishop Smith (presiding)
12:30-4:00 Street fair, educational displays, drumming events
7:30 p.m.Collegium Vocale, free concert of Baroque music with voice and historic instruments

Sunday:
9:00, 11:15, Bishop Rickel preaches at cathedral services
5:00 p.m., Evensong with the Cathedral Choir and the Choir of First Congregational Church, St. Louis.

Bishop Greg Rickel’s biography and blog; and more on the history of Flower Sunday/ Festival and last year’s celebration here.

• Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103, ph 314-231-3454, www.christchurchcathedral.us
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