THE REV. DANIEL B. HANNA passed away on Wednesday May 22nd in the early hours at Lambeth House/St. Anna’s nursing home. He was visited yesterday by many friends and the prayers for the dying were administered. He was anointed and given absolution. All rituals that Dan is very fond of
Continue readingAn evening in the city. It is about six in the evening in this old city. I step out of my office on the second floor of a very old home, now a parish house “Gordon Maginnis House”, and take a moment to enjoy the perfect weather, the warmth, there
Continue reading“Polo” was a man. He was a man who made his home along the North Claiborne Avenue corridor. I did not know Polo but I do know that he breathed, he ate, he wanted, he dreamt, he laughed and cried. Polo knew hunger and likely knew fullness. I am sure
Continue readingThese are some of the wonderful ladies of Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, LA. Some I have met before, some were new friends and faces. Yes, this wonderful community is populated with all kinds of folks: men folk, women folk, retired Bishops, missionaries, mission committees, day care ministries, youth
Continue readingWhenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the
Continue reading8/28/17 NEW ORLEANS by The Very Rev. Bill Terry+: As we all hunker down awaiting the rain my wife and I sat on our porch after tonight’s evening news. Almost in tears we mourned the losses of the folks in Texas. Perhaps we are mourning the loss even
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“Hey Ya’ll:I can’t thank you enough for helping me to raise Emman and Clyde. As shy as Clyde is he got a job working at [a] Restaurant on Magazine Street. Plus he have a secret girlfriend. N—and I saw him and her walking holding hands. she’s a cute lil thing,
Continue readingThis article was published by “Ambush Magazine” with thanks. The following was written a few years ago. I tweaked it but it still reads true in a community that is reacting to the forces of bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia. Those forces perceived or real have gotten us down. So……. FAT
Continue readingOur little church is hard to describe. But, let it simply suffice to say that it is quixotic. We strive for diversity in all that we do. When diversity is birthed it looks a bit odd to some church goers. But to anyone who engages in such an oddity will,
Continue readingToday during the Holy Mass a prayer was offered for the people of Belgium. Such indifferent carnage is not fathomable by any civilized state of being. No God no person no tribe or nation can rightfully claim innocence and rightness in the wholesale murder of civilians, non combatants, children or
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