Frank T. Griswold
Celebration of Full Communion
We have come together this morning as Lutheran and Anglican Christians, along with members of other households of faith, to celebrate the fact that, through baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ, we are limbs and members of Christ’s risen body, the Church. Knit together in the communion of the Holy Spirit, which is […]
Presiding Bishop’s Christmas Message 2000
O come thou Wisdom from on high! All is neither calm nor bright as we once again celebrate the Savior’s birth. Instead, we find ourselves in a bleak midwinter of fear and rage, rocks and bullets, which have turned the land of Jesus’ birth into a war zone. Yet the Middle East is only one […]
The Presiding Bishop’s Letter to the ECUSA Bishops
Just before Christmas the Presiding Bishop sent a letter to all bishops reflecting on the common life of the Episcopal Church. The Presiding Bishop’s Office has received numerous requests from others for copies of this letter. Therefore, as it may be of more general interest, it is included below. For all Bishops My dear brothers […]
Bishop Epting of Iowa
I am pleased to announce the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Christopher Epting, Bishop of Iowa, to serve as Deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church. He will move to New York and assume his new duties in mid-April 2001. Bishop Epting’s responsibilities will include coordinating the ecumenical and interfaith activities of […]
All Saints Day, 2000
November 1st, 2000 Dear friends in Christ: I write with a heavy heart, knowing that people on all sides of the difficult questions in the Middle East are grieving as the violence continues. I have remained in regular communication over these last weeks with our bishop in the Diocese of Jerusalem, the Right Reverend Riah […]
A Note of Thanks to the Church
October 11th, 2000 One of the unexpected blessings of my recent cancer surgery has been the overwhelming outpouring of prayer and affection from so many people both within and beyond the Episcopal Church. I have no doubt that all this good energy released into the heavens on my behalf, and also conveyed to me, has […]
Some Reflections on Coming Down from the Mountain
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: I write this letter to the church now in the first weeks after the Denver General Convention. Many of us who took part in the Convention would say it was both figuratively and literally a mountaintop experience, as Episcopalians by the thousands came together in the "Mile-High City" […]
Meditation July 14, 2000
I must confess that I am tempted at this point to say what one of the Desert Fathers said when he was told that an important visitor had come to interview him in the hope of receiving a word of life. He said, “If he will not be edified by my silence, neither will he […]
Meditation July 13, 2000
Jesus “went up the mountain: and after he sat down his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak to them, and he taught them saying⦔ And what is it that he taught them? First of all, he taught them out of the deep interiority of his own life and prayer. He shared with […]
Meditation July 12, 2000
In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatious of Loyala, who appears in our calendar at the end of this month, there is an exercise, a meditation, called the Two Standards. In it the person making his or her way through the exercises, which have to do with deepening our companionship with Christ, is invited to […]