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A Lenten Discipline for a Shuttered Season
Lent begins today, and as the effects of this pandemic continue to shutter and mask so much of life, I search about for a fruitful Lenten discipline to embrace. I found mine from last Sunday’s gospel reading. The Transfiguration narrative … Continue reading
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Christmas Eve – A Life Remembered
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the … Continue reading
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The Marriage of the Virgin
Until I was standing before Corrado Giaquinito’s Marriage of the Virgin, I had never thought about the wedding of Joseph and Mary. Certainly, I had read countless times in Matthew’s Gospel how Joseph took Mary to be his wife, but … Continue reading
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All Saints Day – A Team Photo
There are particular days in the Church calendar set aside to honor the heroes of the faith, such as Peter, Andrew, and the Virgin Mary. All Saints’ Day, November 1st, however, comes as the Church year ends—the last of the … Continue reading
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What Makes a Day Count? A Summer Journal Entry
Journal Entry August 13, 2020, (Farmhouse near Wytheville, VA) I had a good four-mile jog this morning over these rolling hills and country roads near this farmhouse where we are staying for a few days. I stopped occasionally to take … Continue reading
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The Calling of a Bishop Coadjutor
On July 9, 2020, Bishop Lawrence sent the following message to the Diocese. Dear Friends in Christ, Yesterday I announced to the clergy of the diocese my decision to call for a bishop coadjutor. This call for a bishop coadjutor … Continue reading
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Standing in the Breach
The second meditation in a series on the national unrest and call to prayer by Bishop Mark Lawrence If it is true as author Shelby Steele has stated in a recent interview that “racism is endemic to the human condition,” and, I … Continue reading
With Groanings too Deep for Words; Meditation 1
The first meditation in a series on the national unrest and the call to prayer by Bishop Mark Lawrence Early Saturday evening I was driving back from Summerville having just ordained one of our transitional deacons. Nearing Charleston, quite at the … Continue reading
The Viral Shuttering of Other Gods
This is an edited version of a sermon given by Bishop Mark Lawrence on Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020 at St. Michael’s Church, Charleston SC. View the video. I received an email last week that included a brief message that … Continue reading
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Faithfulness in an Age of Pandemic
A Pastoral Letter from The Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence March 17, 2020 Greetings in the strong name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in whose fellowship we, by the grace of God, are … Continue reading