As your clergy, our priority is always to be pastors with and for our Cathedral community. We’ve already been in touch with the families of our Cathedral community whom we know to be connected to FedEx. However, we want to make sure we’ve not missed anyone. Please call the Cathedral (317-636-4577) if there is a way that we can be a pastoral presence to you or your loved ones right now; a priest is on call 24 hours a day.
As our community now mourns, grieves, and remembers the nine people who died yesterday, may the powerful prayer written in response to this act of violence by The Right Reverend Deon Johnson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, give voice to our sorrow and strengthen our resolve to act:
O God we are tired, tired of the names recited, the lives lost, and the dreams destroyed in pestilence of gun violence. We are tired of the stories cut short, the households shattered and the inability to act in justice and righteousness. In your tirelessness, receive the dead, comfort the grieving, move the mired, inspire the silent, and embolden the just. Move us from thoughts and prayers to action and accountability; that in our day we may see the great day of peace. Through Jesus Christ your promised peace. Amen.
— The Very Rev. Gray Lesesne, D.Min. |