Time to reflect

As we move from Epiphany, the season in which we celebrated the manifestation of God in Jesus to the nations, it is appropriate to reflect on our mission and the ways in which God’s love is made evident in and by our own efforts. I have been abundantly impressed in recent weeks with the health […]

Presiding Bishop’s sermon at Executive Council meeting in Portland, Oregon

Presiding Bishop’s Opening Remarks for Churchwide Webcast Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City

Good morning to all of you.  And it is a good morning, as the psalmist says, “this is the day the Lord has made.  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.! Let us rejoice and be glad in the good and creative ministry going on in so many parts of this church and around […]

The Opening Eucharist for the Anglican Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2007

Welcome – many of you have traveled far to join this gathering of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.  The people of this world thank you for your passion for the healing that comes through attending to the needs of more than half of the human race.  We are all grateful for […]

A Season of Fasting: Reflections on the Primates' Meeting

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori offered the following reflections following the February 15-19 meeting of Anglican Primates near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.   – – – – – – – – – – A Season of Fasting: Reflections on the Primates' Meeting The recent meeting of the Primates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was a […]

Absalom Jones Day with the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas

When you think about the word friend, who comes to mind? One of my closest and longest-standing friends is somebody I didn'€™t quite warm up to the first several times we met. Somehow she just rubbed me the wrong way. We ended up working on a project together, beginning more than 25 years ago, and […]

Pauli Murray 30th anniversary celebration of her first mass Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill NC

Isaiah 61:1-4; Psalm 126; John 15:12-15 I stand here with what I imagine is a good deal less confidence than did the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray 30 years ago.  Her 66 years that day had brought carbon steel as well as the strength and limber of bamboo out of the chapters of her life.  As […]

In this season: Christ in the stranger’s guise, A reflection from the Presiding Bishop

Celtic Rune of HospitalityI saw a stranger yesterday;I put food in the eating place,drink in the drinking place,music in the listening place;and in the sacred name of the Triune Godhe blessed myself and my house,my cattle and my dear ones,and the lark said in her song:Oft, Oft, Oft,goes Christ in the stranger’s guise. Shalom,Katharine — The […]

Presiding Bishop preaches in Cuba

Presiding Bishop: Three mission questions

How do we understand our mission — as Christians, as Episcopalians, as congregations in this church? We might begin with the catechism's definition of it as “to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ” (p. 855 in the Book of Common Prayer). We're meant to understand that in the broadest […]