Participants in this year’s New Bishops and Spouses Retreat spent a day visiting areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, including the spot above, where a parish hall used to stand next to Trinity Church in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori contemplates the loss and devastation.

“To this temple, where we call Thee / Come, O Lord of Hosts, today. With Thy wonted loving kindness / Hear Thy servants as they pray. And Thy fullest benediction / Shed within its walls alway.”

–from “Christ is made the sure Foundation,” by John Mason Neale

–Photo by Richard Shori