Links to prayer resources:
Mission St. Claire, Episcopal daily office site
Oremus, Non-denominational prayer site
Book of Common Prayer, online version of the Episcopal Church’s prayer book
St. Gregory’s Abbey, Episcopal monastery
Society of St. John the Evangelist, Episcopal monastery
Community of the Resurrection, Anglican monastery
Order of the Holy Paraclete, Whitby, Anglican convent
The Iona Community, Non-denominational religious community
Finding Freedom in a Concentration Camp ~Fr. Michael In 1939, just as World War II was beginning to rage throughout Europe, the young German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was in New York, exploring whether he should stay there. He had offers to be a pastor to the German emigrants fleeing Europe. He had made himself deeply…
What is a Sabbatical? ~Fr. Michael This year, after planning and preparing since my arrival at the Cathedral, the vestry has agreed to allow me to take three months of sabbatical time in 2018, my seventh year with the congregation. While this is a regular practice in every major denomination, and is encouraged practice throughout the…
Common Life and Personal Prayer -Fr. Michael What would you think if you were watching a baseball game on TV, and in the interviews after the game, the manager said, “my strategy worked out well, didn’t it?” or a player said, ‘I pushed myself hard, and it paid off when I hit that home run,…
Building a Temple with Living Stones ~Fr. Michael The Cathedral has been a profound delight for me to pray in since I first visited here to discern the call to be dean some six years ago. Like many people who come to visit, I was rather overwhelmed by the simple grandeur of the High Altar,…
At the heart of daily Christian devotion is the communal practice of praying together every day. At the Cathedral we follow the Anglican/Episcopal tradition of the Daily Office, which consists of Morning and Evening Prayer, with occasional use of Noonday Prayer and Compline (bedtime prayer). This has been adapted from centuries old monastic practice and…
New Life in the Spirit-Fr. Michael Greene Pentecost is sometimes called ‘the birthday of the Church’—it celebrates the moment when a confused group of disciples and followers could first reasonably be called by the name we still carry today. We are told in the Acts of the Apostles that it was on the Day of…
