Presiding Bishop Preaches at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin

Can you remember back to Christmas? It seems a long time ago, yet it hasn’t even been six weeks. Today we’re remembering the feast of Jesus’ presentation in the Temple, which would have taken place 40 days after his birth. It’s an occasion for dedicating the child to God, once enough time has elapsed that […]

St. Luke’s, Jacksonville, FL

Sermon for Epiphany 3, Year A

Diocese of Florida Convention Sermon: One Body

We are one body, with a whole lot of different parts. This body called The Episcopal Church has 16 different national parts: Taiwan, Micronesia, Honduras, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, British and US Virgin Islands, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the US and its territories. We are one body with 112 different […]

Hecker Lecture at St. Paul's College

A catholic future: shared mission beyond unitary communionsHecker Lecture19 January 2011St. Paul’s College (Paulist fathers), Washington, DC We are the respective heirs of different strands of western Christianity. I will not begin with the Reformation, but with a much earlier, indigenous Christianity in the British Isles. Roman soldiers appear to have taken the Christian tradition […]

Christmas 2010: A message from the Presiding Bishop

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori is presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.

Sermon at 50th Anniversary of St. Columba, Marathon, FL

Congratulations! Fifty years as a community of faith is indeed something to celebrate. I presume there are some in this community who were either here at the beginning or knew the founders well. Keep telling the stories about how and why St. Columba’s began, for the generations to come need to know them. Those stories […]

Sermon at Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, IL

What do you hope for in the coming year? What holy dream keeps you searching in the midst of darkness? I don’t mean what the children are waiting for Santa Claus to bring them in a few weeks, but we could all learn something from the earnestness and energy of that childish anticipation. Most of […]

Collaboration Between the Religious and Health Care Communities

The work of clergy has anciently been called the “cure of souls” and in some places, a cleric’s locus of work is still called a “cure.” Pastoral ministry is focused on the care of human beings, “soul” being shorthand for the whole person, even if the fact that it’s shorthand has been forgotten in some […]

Presiding bishop issues 2010 World AIDS Day letter

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following letter for World AIDS Day, which is observed annually on Dec. 1.     Brothers and sisters in Christ, On the first day of December, people around the world pause to remember World AIDS Day. Christians remember all who live with HIV and AIDS, and all […]