Central Florida Episcopalian Online

All Saints Academy, Winter Haven, spent the week of September 9 collecting supplies for the hardest-hit areas of the Bahamas.  Upper School student Rio Knowles coordinated the school’s efforts.​ Rio felt compassion when she saw the news footage on the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. “I was watching the hurricane coverage on the news and saw how…

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[ORLANDO] United Way Heart of Florida has named The Rev. José Rodriguez, vicar of Iglesia Episcopal Jesús de Nazaret, Orlando, among honorees for its 2019 Change Makers Impact Award. The awards, initiated in 2018, recognize “key players who make our community a better place to live,” according to United Way. Recipients were celebrated at a…

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Parishioners and students throughout the Diocese of Central Florida are giving thanks for God’s grace and sending supplies to the Bahamas in planeloads!​ Students at Trinity Prep, Winter Park, organized a hurricane relief drive for those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas Sept. 6 and 9 at morning and afternoon pick-up. ​ Henry Brown, with…

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The hurricane had passed. It was early morning. An old man walked the beach surveying the damage. Debris littered the shore. Among the beached boats, branches, seaweed and wind-strewn pieces of people’s homes were starfish—lots of them—and a young boy. The old man watched the boy bend down, pick up one of the starfish and…

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Parishes and schools throughout the Central Florida Diocese continue to respond to the Bahamas by sending supplies (and stuffed animals) in planeloads and boatloads! St. David’s by-the-Sea, Cocoa Beach, has partnered with Air Mobile Ministries in Titusville to bring supplies collected by parishioners and friends. These supplies will be flown to the smaller islands in…

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Parishes throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida are giving thanks for God’s grace and sending supplies to the Bahamas in planeloads!​​ Financial donations sent to the Diocese were and will continue to be sent to The Rt. Rev. Laish Boyd, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks & Caicos Islands,…

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Third Sunday of Easter Sunday, May 5, 2019 Lectionary C  John 21:1-19 As a child, do you remember picking a daisy and removing one petal at a time and saying, “He (she) loves me, loves me not, loves me, loves me not …” and you hope the final petal is “loves me”? Or your young…

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Second Sunday of Easter Sunday, April 28, 2019 Lectionary C  John 20:19-31 Peace be with you. The doors were locked, but Jesus came. As he spoke peace, he showed the disciples his hands and his side. Only the one who bears the injuries we deserve can say: “Peace be with you.” He, alone, knows the…

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Holy Trinity Episcopal in Melbourne will celebrate Holy Week and Easter Sunday in multiple ways as Christians worldwide remember the last days of Jesus’s life on Earth. On the heels of Palm Sunday on April 14 – the first day of Holy Week – a Tenebrae service on Monday, April 15, a Eucharist service on Wednesday,…

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Reenactments of famous battles are common throughout America, but restaging a religious event is rather unique, especially if it’s right here in Central Florida. St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Titusville is set to celebrate its 150th anniversary in a special way on Good Friday when it reenacts the first Episcopal service in North Brevard. The…

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