Live stream of the Easter Sunday service with Bishop Hughes at Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral, starting at 10 AM on Sunday, April 4, 2021.
We have hard work in front of us to stand against racial violence and it is work we can do.
Bishop Hughes says, "It is a heartbreaker this week that the news came out from another denomination that somehow our siblings who are lesbian, gay, trans, queer – that somehow they were less worthy of the sacrament of marriage than others. I suspect that for most of them all they heard was, 'You are not good enough.'"
The text of Bishop Hughes' sermon at the Service of Remembrance & Gratitude on March 13, 2021.
On Saturday, March 13, the Diocese of Newark gathered for an online service to honor the memories of those we lost to death and celebrate the many ways the parishes and people of our diocese have rallied to care for each other and our neighbors.
Bishop Hughes urges us all to pray for our nation daily, reminds us why we are called to pray, and shares her favorite prayer.
How shall we keep a Holy Lent this year? It will help to start with where we are right now.
The past 11 months of pandemic seems like one incredibly long Lent, Bishop Hughes notes – but one that also has had much restoration, with prayer, contemplation, self-evaluation and turning to God. This Ash Wednesday, she reframes the invitation to a holy Lent as an invitation to take even deeper what we have been experiencing in our spiritual lives during this time.
God has been doing new things among us during the pandemic: growing in the faith, sharing the faith, and caring for the community. Fueling these is the power of relationships, and Faith Groups are a place to build those relationships with each other and with God.
"It takes constantly working to open one's eyes," says Bishop Hughes. "It takes looking sometimes at really difficult things – things that hurt.
