Fringe 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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
Continue readingSyria and “Just War” by Fr. Bill
SYRIA After a quiet and lovely mass last night a parishioner sat and asked if I had a moment. This person is one who takes her faith very seriously and
Continue readingA Community within Communities: DECADANCE ALREADY!!
As published in Ambush Magazine 8/28/13 “You do not know the hour or day …” Jesus When I was a child I would lie in grass and look at clouds.
Continue readingPRIDE WITH A PURPOSE
FROM WIKIPEDIA: “The UpStairs Lounge arson attack occurred in 1973 at a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, and resulted in the
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