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Holy Hospitality
This Sunday in the Gospel, Jesus has a meal in the home of a religious leader and offers a teaching about how to be in the presence of...
Dean Gibson
Aug 28, 20251 min read


Many Loving Hands
Dear Cathedral Family, As we prepare to enter this new program year together here at Christ Church Cathedral, I am especially thankful...
Dean Gibson
Aug 22, 20251 min read


Living after the Ascension
Dear Cathedral Family, Thursday of this week, May 29, is Ascension Day, forty days after the Resurrection, when Jesus ascended to the...
Dean Gibson
May 29, 20252 min read


Rogation Sunday
Dear Cathedral Family, While this 6th Sunday of Easter continues Jesus’ progression toward the Ascension and the coming of the Holy...
Dean Gibson
May 21, 20251 min read


Families
Dear Cathedral Family, It is STILL Easter! And it will be until the Day of Pentecost on Sunday, June 8! The Sunday following that will be...
Dean Gibson
May 15, 20251 min read


Youth Sunday
Dear Cathedral Family, This Sunday will be Youth Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral! In their planning for the year last fall, our young...
Dean Gibson
May 8, 20251 min read


Our Cathedral Ministry
Dear Cathedral Family, This weekend Christ Church Cathedral will celebrate the gift and opportunity of serving the people of the Diocese...
Dean Gibson
May 1, 20251 min read


"Low Sunday"
Dear Cathedral Family, Following last Sunday’s great Easter Day celebration, this first Sunday after Easter is traditionally known as...
Dean Gibson
Apr 24, 20252 min read


Christian Passover
Dear Cathedral Family, When most church people say “Easter,” they mean the Sunday morning of Easter Day--spectacular flowers, joyous...
Dean Gibson
Apr 18, 20252 min read


Hosanna
Dear Cathedral Family, Last weekend I had the opportunity to see the sculpture in the picture above at the Birmingham Museum of Art as...
Dean Gibson
Apr 10, 20251 min read


Moving Into This Holy Season
Dear Cathedral Family, On this fifth Sunday of Lent, we will welcome Jeanie Kienzle as our interim organist and choir director. Recently...
Dean Gibson
Apr 2, 20252 min read


Rejoice!
Dear Cathedral Family, This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday. Laetare is the imperative that appears at the introit...
Dean Gibson
Mar 27, 20251 min read


Lenten Discipline?
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...
Dean Gibson
Mar 20, 20251 min read


Gather
Dear Cathedral Family, In this Sunday’s gospel reading, Jesus responds from a distance to “that fox” Herod by describing his own work as...
Dean Gibson
Mar 13, 20252 min read


Preparation
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...
Dean Gibson
Mar 6, 20252 min read


Transfiguration
Dear Cathedral Family, As the last Sunday of Pre-Lent (Carnival), this Sunday has many names: Quinquagesima (50 days before Easter),...
Dean Gibson
Feb 26, 20252 min read


Don't Fret
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...
Dean Gibson
Feb 20, 20252 min read


Alleluia
Dear Cathedral Family, Last Sunday was an incredible day of thanksgiving, filled with music and good food and fellowship, truly a day of...
Dean Gibson
Feb 13, 20251 min read


Black History Month
Dear Cathedral Family, February is the month established in the United States for honoring African Americans and raising awareness of...
Dean Gibson
Feb 6, 20252 min read


Feeling at Home
Dear Cathedral Family, This week will bring a relatively unusual occurrence: the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in...
Dean Gibson
Jan 30, 20252 min read
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