My sisters and brothers in Christ, In this season of unexpected isolation, I invite you, on behalf of the entire Convocation, to join people from across Europe as we gather to begin our walk through Holy Week as a single, faithful community. We cannot be where we would...
To our friends across the Convocation, Judy and I are still in awe of the amazing events planned, organized, and carried off with such grace and joy by so many people during our weekend of celebrations and thanksgivings. You have all achieved the remarkable feat of bringing our sisters and...
To our Friends near and far, I write from Florence, where I've come to serve for a few weeks as the parish awaits the arrival of its new priest-in-charge. The chance to serve as an occasional supply priest in our congregations is one...
All Saints-Tide, 2020 To the Clergy and People of the ConvocationFew things are less comforting to us than the knowledge that there are matters of great significance to us over which we have no choice but to wait. We are not good at waiting. We are conditioned by our culture of...
Over the past six months, the Council of Advice and the Bishop have together been undertaking a process known as a “Mutual Ministry Review.” All clergy in the Convocation, as a part of their letters of agreement, agree to take part in this...
Back in June, as the protests against police brutality against communities of color in the United States were echoed in Paris by large demonstrations demanding accountability for the death in police custody of Adama Traoré, the Convocation and the cathedral went in together on a large...
It is perhaps not surprising that the summer of this annus horribilis has brought with it a bitter and bumper crop of hopelessness. It’s somehow in vogue to speak and write of hopelessness—not as you might imagine, but instead as the needed catalyst for change, perhaps a...
We are headed into a stretch of parables this month, all of which Jesus tells as an effort to help people understand what the kingdom of heaven is like. It is not always a comforting picture. “Parables are not parallels,” my old preaching professor used to...
Tomorrow at the cathedral in Paris we will ordain two new priests in the Convocation—Stéphanie Burette and Jean Dumond Chavanne. Each of them, in their own ways, are stories very different from the usual account of a person who senses a vocation to ministry and follows...
Since the pandemic began to reshape our lives in early March, we’ve tried to be in regular touch with all the people of the Convocation. And for the past two months now, we’ve put out a weekly message—providing information about on-line worship services and formation programs...