Katharine Jefferts Schori
The Presiding Bishop Preaches on Ascension at Stanford Episcopal-Lutheran Memorial Church
Ascension2 June 2011Stanford Episcopal-Lutheran Campus MinistryMemorial Church The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church I spent some significant time in this place when I was a teenager. I came to Stanford when I was 16, and I couldn’t even drive yet. One of the women in my dorm borrowed a car […]
Beauty and Power, Truth and Good: A 21st Century Quest for the Real
1 June 2011Stanford University The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church I’m going to start with a religious question – why are we here? I don’t think we’re here looking for exactly what some of my classmates sought nearly 40 years ago. Once in a while when the lecture was less […]
Presiding Bishop Preaches at St. John's Episcopal Church–Diocese of Northern Michigan
22 May 2011St. John, Negaunee, MI (Diocese of Northern Michigan) The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church I had a very interesting experience recently, on a visit to another diocese. The plane I was originally supposed to take was cancelled some weeks before the visit, when the airline changed its schedule. […]
Presiding Bishop Preaches at the Catedral Ste Trinite, 11 a.m. Service
Catedral Ste Trinité, Paris15 May 2011 The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church Your bishop and I came from a meeting with the Old Catholics in Utrecht yesterday, and in those vast fields in the green heart of Holland, we saw large numbers of sheep. They were ranged along the sides […]
Sankte Gertrudis
Sankte Gertrudis Cathedral, Utrecht14 May 2011 The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church Should we feast or fast? These words of Jesus are an icon of the typical struggles in religious communities over the law, and what kind and level of observance is necessary. Do we believe in grace, or do […]
Quasimodo Lecture–Networks for the Future: Catholic Beyond Boundaries
Quasimodo lecture 14 May 2011 Old Catholic Cathedral, Utrecht Networks for the future: catholic beyond boundaries The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop and Primate The Episcopal Church When I have mentioned the title of this lecture to others in The Episcopal Church, Iâve gotten either blank looks or humorous ones. In many places […]
Sermon for the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Full Communion with Lutherans
Swords into plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks? Maybe we’re talking about shepherds’ crooks. I’m not aware of any recent wars fought between Anglicans and Lutherans. There probably haven’t been any swords or spears used since the days of the reformation. The last formal war between Canada and the United States ended two centuries ago […]
Sermon for the Second Sunday Easter, Diocese of Western New York
Have you ever been to jail – even just to visit? Many people find it pretty intimidating just to walk in there and hear the doors clang shut behind you. Even people who go in frequently notice the restrictions – you leave your keys and your ID with the guards as you enter, there are […]
Diocese of Pittsburgh Chrism Mass Sermon
Late last fall, I was in New York with one night to run an errand. I started walking across town and began to encounter police barricades. They’re like portable fences that get locked together to keep people on the sidewalk and out of the street. As I went, more and more people began to converge […]
Palm Sunday, Newton Grove, NC
Many churches are celebrated today with a special type of palm leaf. Palmas Eco are collected by workers in Mexico and Guatemala, sorted, and sold through cooperatives that help their members keep more of the money paid for their palms. Instead of paying a dealer to sort and pack the palms, the cooperatives do the work themselves. Members also learn to harvest palm branches in ways that help preserve plants and the forest.