Dear People of God in the Diocese of Chicago, Yesterday, Governor Pritzker issued a modified stay-at-home order that allows Illinois residents to leave their homes “to engage in the free exercise of religion,” so long as services “comply with Social Distancing Requirements and the limit on gatherings of more than ten people in keeping with…
In a video message on April 24, Bishop Lee announced that, in keeping with Governor Pritzker’s extension of Illinois’ stay-at-home order, all in-person worship, meetings and events across the Diocese of Chicago will continue to be suspended through the end of May. He also discussed the work that he and the other leaders of the…
On Tuesday, April 28 from 6-7:45 p.m., the Antiracism Commission of the Diocese of Chicago will host an online forum titled “COVID-19, Health Disparities and Systemic Racism: How do we respond as people of faith?” Register online. Speakers will include: Rebecca Linder Blachly, director, Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations The Very Rev. Kelly Brown…
In Bishop Lee’s Easter sermon, he compares this Easter to the first one, when the disciples didn’t know at first what had happened. “Easter is rarely obvious in its reality,” he says. “God is at work even in the midst of this, no less than God was at work in the reality of the cross…
In his Good Friday message, Bishop Lee says that the grief being experienced across the world right now “can be made endurable when we are sunk deep into the mystery of Christ’s having gone there before us. We follow a Lord who has walked straight into the fearful reality of death and emerged, and emerged…
In his message for Maundy Thursday, Bishop Lee reflects on the way Jesus’ care for the bodies of his disciples is reflected in the way bodies are held in God’s embrace through the work of caregivers during the pandemic. “Never forget that our call is to tend the body of Christ not just in the…
