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Imparting a Way of Seeing
posted on Jun 17, 2020 Not long ago, a young man in his twenties who had struggled through a conflict-ridden childhood, abandoned by his mother and years of abuse by his father, wept as he told me his story. What he missed most was the stability of a relationship with ...
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Holy Habits
posted on Jun 10, 2020 Dear Cathedral, Even though the world is beginning to open up, we still find our lives curtailed drastically due to this pandemic. Suicide rates are skyrocketing in this country. Depression and anxiety are rampant. How can we remain spiritually...
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Staff Pick for June - My Sour-Sweet Days
posted on Jun 4, 2020 My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul By Mark Oakley Reviewed by Owene Courtney As a high school English teacher, one of my greatest challenges was to teach teenagers how to understand poetry and enjoy it. It was not ...
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A MESSAGE TO THE CATHEDRAL DISTRICT FROM GINNY MYRICK, PRESIDENT & CEO
posted on Jun 4, 2020 JUNE 2020
This past week has been so disturbing, scary and such a long-simmering boil in our community. Some folks are afraid to come downtown, to come back to the Cathedral District churches, just as churches are starting to re-open.
The...
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A Call for Hope
posted on Jun 4, 2020 Dear Cathedral Family, I know that you all must feel as if you are on a roller-coaster. Just when we seemed to be slowly and cautiously proceeding back to some kind of new normal, the killing of George Floyd hit this nation with a force and she...
Read MoreNew: Social Distance Worship
posted on May 28, 2020 Dear People of God, This coming Sunday, we will celebrate the birth of the church on Pentecost. And on this festival day, we will open the church a little more, and provide Social Distance Worship experience, or what I would like to refer to as...
Read MoreLooking Ahead
posted on May 20, 2020 Dear People of God, This week, we opened the church for pilgrims. So far, it seems to be going well. I am so grateful to our staff, sextons, Beth Wilson and all the lay ministers who are making this pilgrimage possible. Please know that it is sa...
Read MoreA Cathedral Pilgrimage
posted on May 14, 2020 We remain open Tuesdays-Fridays for pilgrims who wish to pray. The holy sacrament will be available on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon. Come. Light a candle. Pray with friends. The Cathedral is a sanctuary. Come and pray for this nation and ...
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Center for Prayer & Spirituality - Engaging the Contemplative Life
What is Pilgrimage?
posted on May 13, 2020 Pilgrimage is an essential part of the spiritual life in all world religions. It is a journey in search of the Divine, sometimes to a holy place where something significant in the life of the religion has happened. The main pilgrimage site for Mu...
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