Regular Sunday Schedule

 7:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite I (Emmanuel Chapel)

9am Education Classes for all ages 

9amContemporary Service (1st Sundays, October thru June)

10am Choral Eucharist Rite II

4pm Evensong (1st Sundays)

 5:15pm Holy Eucharist

 

Weekday Schedule

Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays (Nave), 9am Morning Payer

Tuesdays, Holy Eucharist (Emmanuel Chapel), 12:10pm

Wednesdays, Compline (Emmanuel Chapel), 9pm

"Red-Letter Days", Holy Eucharist (Nave), 12:10pm

Saturdays, Misio San Lucas, servicio en Español, 5:30pm

 

Now it’s our turn

     Have you noticed how, when you look at the stained-glass windows in the Cathedral, your eyes are drawn not to images of the crucifixion on the left or the resurrection on the right, but rather to the ascension of Jesus pictured in the Rose Window?  In what looks like Jesus surfing or snow boarding against a backdrop of stars, the Rose Window gives us a wonderful an image of the Christ of the Cosmos, Jesus as the Lord of the universe itself.

     The Ascension of Jesus, 40 days after Easter, is one of those feast days that slips by unnoticed.  Theologically speaking, however, it has enormous implications for those who bear his name.  While Jesus is doing his work in heaven, we are left to do his work on earth. This means that that if people are going to experience Jesus today, they will do so through us. As his body, we are called to be his hands and feet. As his body, we are called to bring his healing and hope to the world in which we live.

     Ten days after the Ascension, we celebrate the feast of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit. With the coming of the Holy Spirit, the followers of Jesus were empowered to do what he did and more.  Now, two millennia later we are still trying to figure out exactly how to make that happen.  Note that while the Nicene Creed elaborates on God the Father and God the Son, it is relatively brief on God the Holy Spirit.  In fact, when it mentions the Holy Spirit, it jumps almost immediately and mentions the church, reminding us that the church – not an institution but a people – is where the Holy Spirit is most likely to be found.

    The Ascension tells us that the ball is in our court. Pentecost tells us that the possibilities are endless. What happens next is up to us.

                                                               

                                - The Very Rev. Dr. Benjamin Shambaugh, Dean

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