Thursday, November 5, 2020 | Annual Convention, Out and About in EDoLA
The 183rd Annual Convention was held virtually via Zoom and broadcasted from the Gibbs Family Center for Innovation and Design at St. Martin’s Episcopal School, Metairie. Below are a few photographs submitted by delegations and of the diocesan staff. St...
Thursday, November 5, 2020 | Diocesan News, Out and About in EDoLA
On Sunday, October 25, 2020, the people of St. George’s, New Orleans, said goodbye to their rector, the Very Rev. Richard Easterling. He has accepted as call to serve as priest-in-charge of St. James in Florence, Italy. Below you will find photographs from his...
Thursday, November 5, 2020 | Diocesan News, Out and About in EDoLA
On Saturday, October 31, 2020, the Rev. Robert Beazley was installed as rector of St. Michael’s, Mandeville. Below are photographs from the Celebration of New Ministry. Celebrant: The Rt. Rev. Morris K. Thompson, Jr; Preacher: The Rt. Rev. James Brown; Litanist:...
Thursday, November 5, 2020 | Reflections
From the Archives: December 1, 1955Let us think today of one great truth: People have learned to live together. Sometimes the lesson has been poorly learned; sometimes, there have been wars on a large scale and strife on a small scale. But m….(View this reading...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 | Reflections
Ours is a God who planted the islands, birthed the sea, and filled the deep with huge sea monsters—all for the sport of it. If God has taken such pleasure in fashioning all living things, imagine the pleasure God must have taken—and continues to take—in you and...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | Reflections
For those of you reading this in the United States, today is Election Day. By tonight we will know who the president will be for the next four years. No matter where you place yourself on the political spectrum, this will be a momentous day.What better time to be...
Monday, November 2, 2020 | Reflections
Christians have relied on symbols as long as we have existed. A fish for believers, a key for Peter, a book and a sword for Paul, a lamb draped over Agnes’s arm. We know martyrs by the palm branches they clutch. Palms are an ancient symbol of victory and carry the...
Sunday, November 1, 2020 | Reflections
The day I went to the local tailor to be measured for my first cassock was like an introduction into a secret world. The workshop was full of obscure articles of clerical haberdashery, most much fancier than the simple black wool cassock I was seeking. I marveled at...
Saturday, October 31, 2020 | Reflections
I still remember the night we learned our grandson had cancer. The phone call woke us sometime after midnight. Our son was in tears, still at the hospital, barely able to speak the words, much less absorb their impact.Fear and trembling overcame all of us in the weeks...
Friday, October 30, 2020 | Message from Bishop Thompson
To my brothers and sisters in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, I pray that this message finds you well. Hurricane Zeta brought devastating winds to our diocese particularly in the Greater New Orleans area. I am grateful we were spared from rising waters but the...
