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COVID Regathering Guidance

Beloved in Christ, For the past two years, we have shown our care for our neighbors by taking drastic measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. While our efforts surely saved lives, the cost to o...

God Will Make Good

This past Saturday, I drove to Moose Lake for a visitation to St. Andrew's. Over the course of Thursday and Friday, I was obsessively monitoring the forecast as there was a chance of a pretty epic ice...

HMONG - A Pastoral Message from Bishop Loya

Thov kom Tswv Ntuj tus tsim peb pub nws lub txiaj ntsim thiab kev thaj yeeb rau nej, tuaj ntawm Tswv Ntuj leej tub Yes Xus, tus tau raug txoj kev tsim txom nrog peb, thiab tus, nws hlub peb thiab hlub...

The Transformative Mystery of Prayer

Beloved in Christ, Yesterday, I attended the Upper School chapel at Breck School. We began the service with a prayer for Ukraine, which was read in Ukranian by an exchange student from the Czech Re...

Un mensaje pastoral del Obispo Loya acerca de la Cuaresma

La Gracia sea con ustedes y la paz de Dios nuestro Creador, y del hijo de Dios Jesús, que se ha adentrado completamente en las profundidades de nuestros sufrimientos y quien por amor a nosotros y a t...

A Pastoral Message About Lent

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, and from God’s son Jesus, who has entered fully into the depths of our sufferings, and who, for love of us and of all Creation, has defeated death and sh...

တၢ်ဆှၢဒုးနဲၣ်ကျဲတၢ်ကစီၣ် ဘၣ်ဃးလ့တး ဟဲလၢဘံရှၢၣ်Laya

မ်တၢ်ဘျုးတၢ်ဖှိၣ်ကဟဲဘၣ်ဆူနအိၣ် ဒီးတၢ်ဘျုးတၢ်ဖှိၣ်ဟဲလၢပကစၢ်ယ...

Rest in the Simplicity of the Gospel

February 22, 2022

Beloved in Christ, This past Sunday, I spent a really wonderful day with the people of St. Peter’s in Kasson. Around twenty of us gathered to celebrate the Eucharist, and then enjoyed some conver...

2022 Lenten Spiritual Practices

February 18, 2022

Beloved in Christ, Lent begins in a few short weeks, on Wednesday, March 2nd. I believe that the most important thing we can seek in and for our church is spiritual revival, a fresh outpouring...

Broken Lights Shining God's Love

February 15, 2022

Beloved in Christ, Today is Bishop Whipple’s 200th birthday. He was elected by the second convention of the Diocese of Minnesota after delegates to the first could not reach a majority ...

Striving to Be Saints

February 8, 2022

Beloved in Christ, This Sunday evening, everyone in the diocese is invited to gather on Zoom for a service of Evening Prayer celebrating the feast of Absalom Jones. You can read more about Fr. Jone...

New Expressions of Christian Community

February 1, 2022

Beloved in Christ, This past weekend, the New York Times published an opinion piece by the Reverend Tish Warren, a priest in one of the breakaway Episcopal/Anglican groups, which has generated a gr...

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