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Unless I See…
We are living in most interesting, and terrifying, times. Isn’t that the ancient curse — May you live in interesting times? Recently, I placed on my Facebook page a post from my friend Ravi: “Never in my wildest dreams did…
Read MoreOn the First Day of the Week
“When leaving his surgery on the morning of April 16, Dr. Bernard Rieux felt something soft under his foot. It was a dead rat lying in the middle of the landing. On the spur of the moment he kicked it…
Read MoreGathering Gloom and Fickle Folks
Today the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles met together by Zoom with our bishops. Bishop John has requested that we not distribute palm crosses, as our usual custom for Palm Sunday. Furthermore, we will not even be…
Read MoreDear Friends in Christ
It is most fortuitous that our Gospel lesson for today from John is the story of Jesus raising up Lazarus. Mary attempting to dissuade him from having the stone rolled away from the entrance to the tomb, cautions, “Lord, by…
Read MoreJourney Without Maps
In 1935 the British writer Graham Greene and his cousin Barbara Greene set off into the heart of Liberia, Africa. As one might imagine, it was a rather harrowing journey with Graham almost dying as he neared its end. His…
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