• Preacher: The Rt Rev Mark D.W. Edington
• Category: Bishop's Sermons

You can’t possibly know how happy I am to be here with you today. It’s not just that I love coming to Saint Augustine’s, although that is certainly true; you are a joy to all of us in the Convocation, and I have been so impressed by, and so thankful for, how you have adapted to the hardships of the pandemic by creating digital communities on-line. But I have to be honest with you and confess that I’m happy mostly because this is the first time I’ve been able to visit one of our parishes since this all began. It’s the first time I’ve been able to get out of Paris in a month and a half. And it’s the first time I’ve been in one of our parishes other than the cathedral since the end of February, when I visited our sisters and brothers in Florence, Italy.