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Here’s a glimpse of this morning’s Holy Week Stations of the Cross at SGES. This is my favorite chapel of the year, for sure.    #holyweek #sges#stationsofthecross #episcopalschools #thebrilliance

“Dear young people, you have it in you to shout,” he continued.

“It is up to you not to keep quiet. Even if others keep quiet, if we older people and leaders, some corrupt, keep quiet, if the whole world keeps quiet and loses its joy, I ask you: Will you cry out?”

SCHOOL CHAPLAIN for SCHOOL SAFETY. Marching for #schoolsafety with the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta youth. #enough #mfolatl

And they’re good!

So proud to have been able to stand with our HS students today, one month after the school tragedy in Parkland, FL, to remember and honor the victims. At 10:00am the students met in front of the school and walked in silence to the chapel, along the way ringing 17 bells and tying 17 orange ribbons to the school for each of the 17 victims. In the chapel, prayers and encouraging words were shared and 17 candles were lit while pictures were placed in 17 empty chairs and 17 names were read with a brief sentence about each. Psalm 88 was read. The service was closed with words of hope. We don’t have to accept these events as normal. We can effect change. We can have the hard conversations. We can speak to people of influence. We can be more kind and loving to our neighbor. We can take our baptismal call more seriously to respect the dignity of every human being. We can put an end to this. We can make a difference. Enough is #Enough.

As a Franciscan and a Christian, I stand with the students of Parkland who say #NeverAgain . Here is an official statement from my religious order:

“The Creator of the our universe and Lover of our souls calls us every moment of every day. We are asked for our best, our utmost. Our hearts are torn over the senseless killing that is going on in this country, in the streets and in the schools. Our children now have grown into leaders overnight; they call us to that place where God would have us live: A place of peace and harmony and human dignity. A place of safety. As followers of St. Francis, we deplore the killing fields. We call for an end to gun violence and violence of all kinds. Help us to be instruments of peace in the world. We Franciscans stand in solidarity with the students of Parkland, Florida in saying, “Enough!” signed The Third Order, Society of St. Francis, Province of the Americas”

 

Its #spiritweek at #SGES, and today is Wacky Tacky day! Don’t you love my hipster and Pope Francis working together to keep my feet warm?? @ St. George’s Episcopal School

 

So happy to have had Bishop Wright worship with us this morning at SGES. I’m thankful for his leadership and for his challenge to us to be agents of love in the world.

@ St. George’s Episcopal School