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…
Earlier this week, Bishop Lee recorded a sermon for the fifth Sunday in Lent from his home in Chicago. His text is John 11: 1-45, the gospel reading for the day, which is story of Jesus raising his friend Lazarus from the dead.
Dear friends, After consultation with the Standing Committee, we decided today to delay the election of my successor as your bishop due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We now plan to elect the next bishop of Chicago at our annual diocesan convention, currently scheduled for November 20-21 at the Westin Hotel in Lombard. Due to this…
Bishop Jeffrey Lee asks all Episcopalians in the Diocese of Chicago to abide by Governor Pritzker’s stay-at-home order for the sake of the common good. “I ask for your prayers as together we stand fast on the love and mercy of God in Christ. We can do this. We can do this together,” he says.
