From the Dean of the Cathedral

A Message from the Dean

Welcome to the Cathedral in the Holy Season of Lent.

After the earth shook in Haiti, the buildings and people were covered in dust.

Those sorrowful events remind us of the words of Ash Wednesday, "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

We journey through Lent acknowledging our mortality and our need for God's mercy. We are reminded anew that God promises to hate nothing in the Divine Creation. As the embrace of God's love surrounds us, this pilgrimage with our Lord manifests faithfulness that can become a pattern of life for each of us.

As our hearts are broken, we become open to God’s grace and are enabled to walk humbly with the Companion One who suffers and dies as one of us. In His Passion we see that the Work of the Cross lifts all of us and the whole world in the Resurrection Hope.

May Lent reveal to you in some special way that you cannot be separated from God's love. May you and all you love be touched by the gift offered as God's world is renewed. And may each of us understand that we come from and return to God and must work for compassion, justice and peace.

 

The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Dean

 

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