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At the heart of our baptismal vows is this same call from Jesus to each of us.
“Follow me” Jesus says.
“Stop being who you were supposed to be … and start being who you are meant to be.”
And what is that? Glad you asked.
We know what it’s like to hope that someone might meet our vulnerability with kindness instead of judgment. We know what it’s like to step out on the ledge of honesty and pray we won’t fall. And we also know this: Love grows in the spaces where we dare to be known.
Imagine if someone told you that next year Thanksgiving would be different. It would happen sometime in 2026, but you wouldn’t know the exact date, time, or even who the guests would be. How would you prepare? How could you plan for such an event? After all, food has a shelf life, and anyone who has cooked a turkey knows it doesn’t thaw overnight. Preparation is essential.
by the Rt. Rev. Craig Loya Watch the sermon recording on YouTube.
the Rev. Phillip Romine
“Saint Katharine is considered blessed because she chose to look beyond what was, to bang the drum for parity and equality, to continually walk toward the need and to act on her belief that God values and loves everyone without ceasing.”
by the Rev. Jeckonia Okoth
I wonder what was going in the mind of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when she arrived in New York on March 31, 1889, accompanied by six other religious sisters. Did she see herself as an outsider coming in or as an insider coming home away from home? Let us fast-forward this: suppose someone from the Congo, or Libya or Sudan came in and wanted to start a religious order; what would be the response, and what kind of people would we see in that order?
“I wonder where we would have been in the Selma 1965 story? Would we have been among those beaten, hosed, and jailed? Would we have been actively registering voters and been present, even living with those struggling for dignity and equality? Would we have been Jonathan Myrick Daniels, willing to confront evil and hatred at the end of a shotgun?”
“I argued that to remain silent and not to act in defiance when the Apartheid regime had been taken over by the Principalities and Powers legitimatizing oppression, injustice and racism, seeing this as even Godly, was not an option for us.”
“Perhaps another miracle in this story is about being brave enough to be reliant. Reliance is hard. It’s hard to go against cultural norms which prize independence, self-sufficiency, self-determination. It’s hard to admit that we need help an ask for it. It’s hard to risk the appearance of weakness. It’s hard, sometimes, to believe we are worthy of help.”
The Rev. Dr. Dorothy White and the Rev. Katie Ernst, preaching at our Racial Healing Eucharist to celebrate the consecration of Bishop Barbara Harris and the life of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper.
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