Katrina Remembered: St. Anna’s in exile 9-1-2015
In the following PDF you will read what was first written days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
Continue readingJust One Persons View of the Supreme Court Deliberations on Same Sex Unions.
I make no claim of being a Justice, Lawyer, or Constitutional expert. I do claim to be a priest and a common-sense registered voter. I will also say that my undergraduate degree is in Political Science (footnote: I was not a very good student). I cannot imagine a scenario where
Continue readingKatrina Remembered: Anna Journal January 3, 2007
Just a few short months after St. Anna’s Church reopened following the flood waters of Katrina this article was published. Consider where we were and from where we have come. From time to time I plan to dig up old articles from those Katrina times and share them on this
Continue readingFringe Fest
In some ways this church serves those of us who are on The Fringe. The Christian faith properly worked out lives and finds is compass on The Fringes. In fact our daily lives are cluttered with God talk and God here God there. Politicians talk about God; TV shows introduce
Continue readingSimply Sid: A recollection of a friend October,1961-June,2014
ON SATURDAY August 2 at 5:00 p.m. St. Anna’s will offer a full solemn votive funeral mass for Sid Lambert. The community is invited. In 2003 I arrived at St. Anna’s Church and Sid was, at that time, a tried and true member. I owe Sid a lot. There are
Continue readingPart III. Hey Father, I want to get (Baptized, Confirmed, Married, etc.)!
BAPTISM is one of two sacraments “ordained by Christ himself.” So what does it mean? What are its benefits? What happens if I don’t know if I was baptized or not? Why kids? It means, like many sacraments many things but, chiefly it is a spiritual cleaving between the Holy
Continue readingPART I: From an Episcopalian, “This Worship service doesn’t seem like the one I knew in my old church?
The short answer is that our worship service adds much ceremonial but is absolutely from The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and follows the rules set out in that book. Therefore, the worship service should be almost the same as any other Episcopal Church using The Book of Common Prayer.
Continue readingPart II. Ok, so what are we Anglo-Catholic or what?
What is the real difference between these phrases “High Church”, “Anglo-Catholic”, “Broad Church”, and “Low Church?” And what piety is St. Anna’s? Explanation of the foregoing question could go on for pages and pages in order to complete the story. So I will try to be brief. The varieties of
Continue readingHomelessness: A Christian Response?
Homelessness on the home front is quite a different proposition than homelessness under the overpasses. Occasionally we see them clustered or alone with packs, bags, and shopping carts under the bridges in the Central Business District very close to The Mission. Just a few years ago there was a virtual
Continue readingAn Essay: Did you do what we talked about?
New Orleans enjoys all four seasons in a week during the winter months. Warm, rain, then cool, rain and warm again. It was on one of those autumnal days that Derrielle approached me. It was gloomy outside in the early evening hours, spitting rain, preparing for this week’s winter. Derrielle
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