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Good Evening Friends, Thank you so much for joining us on Sunday as we begin our study of Paul through the scholarship of Bishop NT Wright.  Each week we will begin to gather around 9.15am in the Garden Room.  The time prior to class will be a time to “stump the rector” with questions or… Continue reading Paul – A Biography – Note from the Dean – September 18, 2022

Lent Week One-Tuesday Gen. 37:12-24 Psalm 48 1 Cor. 1:20-31 Mark 1:14-28 Growing up as an only child I had no direct experience of sibling rivalry. However, as a mother of four I did see it in action. Like Jacob I probably made many mistakes though none which drove my older children to the point… Continue reading St Marks Lenten Thoughts

A few days ago I opened an old and familiar book that was donated to the Cathedral by the late Terry Coutret, who was something of a mystic and local authority on the inner and spiritual life. She bequeathed her library of Evelyn Underhill works to our library and I have been dipping into them… Continue reading Ivory Towers and Woolly-Heads?

LETTER XVII. Quietness in God our true resource. Warmth of imagination, ardor of feeling, acuteness of reasoning, and fluency of expression, can do but little. The true agent is a perfect abandonment before God, in which we do everything by the light which He gives, and are content with the success which He bestows. This… Continue reading Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain . . .

           Take a moment to open your hymnals to 661.  These verses are written by William Alexander Percy, a Mississippian from Greenville, and uncle of the famous Louisiana writer, Walker Percy.  Percy is telling us something about the peace that comes from God, and how that peace fills our hearts brimful, and yet breaks our… Continue reading Strife Closed In The Sod