WEEKLY MESSAGE – May 24th – Bishop McGregor This week I attended the annual diocesan clergy conference about congregational development. The primary focus is to grow a healthy congregation. One of the models they shared with us was regarding the Benedictine Life. Its premise is that there are three components of a good spiritual life. First, […]

  WEEKLY MESSAGE – May 17th – Bishop McGregor Happy Pentecost The word “Pentecost” is Greek, meaning fifty, reflecting the fifty-day countdown after Easter. It is one of three great Jewish pilgrimage festivals (the others being Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles).  Pentecost is also known as the Feast of Harvest or Feast of Weeks (seven […]

WEEKLY MESSAGE – May 10th- Bishop McGregor This week Patsy and I are hosting a new friend of ours, named Jonah. He is a Kenyan priest, who is studying at one of the Episcopal seminaries in Sewanee, Tennessee. We have spent much time talking about African and American cultures, families and friends. It has been […]

WEEKLY MESSAGE – May 5th – Bishop McGregor Last week, I talked briefly with one of the students at St. David’s School towards the end of the day. He greeted me with a big smile and began talking to me as if we were friends. His mother was stunned and shocked about the fact that he […]