From St. Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry In this EDSD Year of Service, Simpler Living celebrates diocesan encouragement to collaborate with our community neighbors. There are two opportunities for outreach to our church neighbors as well as organizational neighbors in the next few weeks. Plant a Tree! Join St Phillips Episcopal Church, 2660 Hardy Drive in Lemon Grove, this … READ MORE…
Hello St. Paul’s, As you may know, Episcopal clergy are expected to take periodic breaks for rest and renewal, to enable us to recover from the particular stress of our vocation. This time is known as a sabbatical leave, and is in addition to our regular vacation allotment. Our diocesan policy calls for clergy to … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon on our YouTube channel (Click Here) March 5, 2023, the Second Sunday in LentPenelope Bridges The story that St. John relates about Nicodemus and Jesus is the first in a series of four stories from John’s Gospel that steadily build dramatic tension towards the Passion and death of Jesus. This year we … READ MORE…
As a reminder, once a month throughout the Year of Service, one of our ministries will host coffee hour, where you can get to know their members face to face. We hope this ignites a curiosity for the ways we can serve through St. Paul’s Cathedral to the betterment of our community, neighborhood, and city. This week’s … READ MORE…
From Climate Stewards USA and St. Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care ministry: Climate Stewards USA invites us to embark on a Carbon Fast for Lent. Here are some questions they’d like us to consider: Can I wait until April 6th or after Easter to purchase this item? If not, can I borrow it from a friend or … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon our YouTube channel (Click Here) Rev. Richard Hogue Jr.2/22/2023 Ashes are such a powerful symbol. They can represent destruction, loss, and grief. They can also represent great possibility, like volcanic ash that makes soil bountifully fertile. Ashes can be the result of a good time, like the smoldering embers of a … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon on our YouTube channel (Click Here) Rev. Richard Hogue Jr.2/26/2023 This is going to be very different from most of my sermons, I’m going to be deeply vulnerable, not to be flashy, or edgy, but because I hope it inspires each of us to risk reaching to a deeper place. For … READ MORE…
Hello St. Paul’s! As we enter into the holy season of Lent, many of us take time to reflect on practices or habits we can give up or take on to deepen our relationship with God as we prepare for Holy Week and Easter. For some, that might look like a commitment to reading scripture … READ MORE…
Watch this sermon on YouTube (Click Here) February 19, 2023, Last Sunday after EpiphanyPenelope Bridges When I started thinking about this sermon, I started with the word Transfiguration. We call the last Sunday before Lent Transfiguration Sunday because, each year on this Sunday, we hear the story of Jesus on the mountaintop, conversing with Moses … READ MORE…
From St. Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry Live simply so that others may simply live. Although that saying has been attributed to Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and bell hooks among others, etymologist Barry Popik “traced it to a Franciscan order that ran a peace center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1974. No matter it’s origin, the words … READ MORE…