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Deo volente, the Rt. Rev. Alex Cameron will ordain the Rev. Michael Juday to the Sacred Order of Priests and Anthony Hermankevich to the Order of Deacons on Saturday, December 2, 2023, at Church of the Ascension.

Your prayers and presence are requested.

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"We are surrounded by witnesses. We are upheld and reminded of the goodness of God by these great witnesses of the faith throughout the centuries. The feast day of All Saints matters because the church is established by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It matters because it is an incredible reminder that we are not alone. We are surrounded by the church throughout the world and throughout time. And it reminds us that people have walked this path before us, whose example we can follow." 

"It is absolutely true that our circumstances are not always things that would fill us with joy. Sometimes days are hard, weeks are hard. Sometimes years and months are hard. But the Lord never changes. We are always in the love and the grace of the Lord. We have been reconciled to God in Christ Jesus. We are at home with the Father because of the work of Jesus. That never changes—our circumstances might, but we still have a place to come home to." 

"Hardness of heart keeps us from the reality of the gospel—not only in our relationship with God, but ultimately in our relationship with others. It is so important for us to remember that Jesus came that we might be reconciled. Reconciled to God and indeed reconciled to one another." 

This week's message from Bishop Alex reminds us of the importance of forgiveness to our relationships with God and one another.

"When we are together, we see something larger—we see the reality of God in our midst. It is fundamentally an encouraging experience to be together. The church will eternally, always be together in glory with the Lord." 

"We as Pittsburgh Anglicans (or Nashville Anglicans, or wherever you are) have Christian foreign perspectives that are quite different from the culture around us. What we need to do to become good missionaries is to develop the kind of curiosity that missionaries have for the culture they're going to.... Understanding others who are not of our own mindset helps us to understand how the gospel intersects with that reality. Jesus is indeed the hope of the nations. Jesus is the answer to everybody's deepest longings. But sometimes we don't understand what those longings are.