Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, For more than four decades, the Diocese of Central Florida’s companion relationship with the Diocese of Honduras has helped Episcopalians in both countries do the work that Jesus summons us to perform. It fills me with great joy to witness how this partnership grows stronger year by year through…

A São Paulo visitor is welcomed as a friend “Michelle!” Bruno shouted across the street as I sat on the steps outside Praça da Sé Cathedral. He gave me a warm hug and said he had missed me. I first met Bruno five weeks before when we played Uno and talked. He immediately put me…

  “Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body also is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness” (Luke 11:34). It has been a long time since I have written about Alex. We haven’t had much contact with him…

In the wake of the Pulse shootings, the people of the Diocese of Central Florida rallied in support of the victims and their families. The benefits were immeasurable. Lives were embraced; souls were touched. One extraordinary offering was Archdeacon Kristi Alday’s July 16 training on “Walking the Mourner’s Path.” The class was open to everyone…

“Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying” (Luke 10:38-39). An unexpected knock on our door on a Sunday afternoon revealed Igor, whom…

God’s call is always a call to love. To love him. To love other people. But the ones he sends us to love are often those we would never choose on our own. A Love That Sacrifices Peter, in the tenth chapter of Acts, had no idea God would call him to go be with…

Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.  Bishop Brewer debuted a beautiful memorial stole today which was given to the Diocese of Central Florida by a company in Rochester, NY called Holy Cloaks.  The stole lists embroidered names of the…

Sãu Paulo: The three boys were the same age, but Bruno was the only one who had watched some of the free movies in the list we were checking. Among them was the famous “The Bicycle Thief,” directed by Vittorio De Sica. I had never seen the movie, but Bruno had, and he didn’t like it….

As I reeled from the recent shootings in Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas, I knew I had to say something. Unexpressed grief easily becomes indifference, something no one needs. So what do we need? I believe times like these call not for desperate measures but a deliberate reach. So what does that look like…

Sorrow filled the air as the pews filled up today, Saturday, at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. Christopher Leinonen, the one to make his friend’s laugh and ease their pain, was laid to rest. Read full story here.   PHOTO CREDIT: Harald Biebel | Dreamstime.com