Katharine Jefferts Schori
Installation of David Rice
We’re here today to celebrate the next chapter in a very long story. The history of this diocese has roots in the first worship by Anglicans, led by Sir Francis […]
Epiphany 5A
Have you ever noticed how much time and energy we spend on what we eat? A current best-seller tells us to eat more fat and protein and give up sugars […]
Martyrs of Japan – Executive Council
Traditionally the church has talked about two kinds of martyrs – white martyrs and red ones. Red martyrs shed blood for claiming their faith, like Perpetua and Paul, or because […]
Presiding Bishop’s opening sermon from Executive Council
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivered the following sermon on Feb. 5 during the opening Eucharist at the Episcopal Church Executive Council meeting currently gathered […]
Diocese of Louisiana-Service of Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation
The only international museum devoted to slavery is in Liverpool, England. Long before the Titanic, Liverpool was the site of ship manufacturing and trade in slaves and the products of […]
Third Sunday of Advent – Wood Memorial Chapel
There’s been a running story in the New York Times this week about a homeless family with 8 children. They live in a shelter in Brooklyn, and the writer has […]
Feast of Edmund of Anglia, 870
We’re celebrating 50 years of this remarkable community on the feast of an English king and martyr who died in the year 870. The two do have something to do […]
St. John's, Canandaigua – 200th Anniversary
I recall sitting in the exit row of a plane once, when a very big person arrived to sit across the aisle from me. I really wondered if that person […]
Elizabeth Blackwell Award
I am humbled by this honor, and reminded that I stand here only because of the difficult work done by so many women and men before me. Elizabeth Blackwell went […]
Opening Worship – Rochester Diocesan Convention
From all I have seen of this diocese, your boundaries do indeed enclose a pleasant land, as the psalmist puts it. You are planted here, as Ezekiel says, with hearts […]