Dear Cathedral Family, Following last Sunday’s great Easter Day celebration, this first Sunday after Easter is traditionally known as...

Dear Cathedral Family, When most church people say “Easter,” they mean the Sunday morning of Easter Day--spectacular flowers, joyous...

Dear Cathedral Family, Last weekend I had the opportunity to see the sculpture in the picture above at the Birmingham Museum of Art as...

Dear Cathedral Family, On this fifth Sunday of Lent, we will welcome Jeanie Kienzle as our interim organist and choir director. Recently...

Dear Cathedral Family, This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday. Laetare is the imperative that appears at the introit...

Dear Cathedral Family, How is your Lenten discipline going? We’ve all had time by now to fail, forget, fall off track. If you have not at...

Dear Cathedral Family, In this Sunday’s gospel reading, Jesus responds from a distance to “that fox” Herod by describing his own work as...

Dear Cathedral Family, It was good to be together, safely past Mardi Gras, to begin keeping a holy Lent on Ash Wednesday. We were all...

Dear Cathedral Family,   As the last Sunday of Pre-Lent (Carnival), this Sunday has many names: Quinquagesima (50 days before Easter),...

Dear Cathedral Family, The last few weeks before Lent are always a busy time in the Cathedral Family. Many of you are involved in Mardi...

Dear Cathedral Family, Last Sunday was an incredible day of thanksgiving, filled with music and good food and fellowship, truly a day of...

Dear Cathedral Family, February is the month established in the United States for honoring African Americans and raising awareness of...

Dear Cathedral Family, This week will bring a relatively unusual occurrence: the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in...

Dear Cathedral Family, This has been an extraordinary week! The historic winter storm “Enzo” upended our lives, bringing...

Dear Cathedral Family, Last Sunday was a beautiful day of baptisms and looking forward to the year ahead as the Church with the...

Dear Cathedral Family, This Sunday we will welcome a new season in our life together as we celebrate the First Sunday after the Epiphany,...

Dear Cathedral Family, The Fourth Sunday of Advent this year is very close to Christmas, although not as close as it could be. Do you...

Dear Cathedral Family, The Third Sunday in Advent is “Gaudete” Sunday, the rejoicing Sunday, when the reflection and repentance of the...

Dear Cathedral Family, On this Second Sunday in Advent, we will experience an abbreviated “Lessons and Carols” in the Liturgy of the Word...

Dear Cathedral Family, This week of gratitude and Thanksgiving moves directly into the beginning of a new Church year. While we give...