The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, the Executive Officer of the General Convention, announces that the 2018 edition of the Constitution and Canons together with the Rules of Order, containing all updates from the 79th General Convention, is now available in English and Spanish. The Constitution and Canons outline the ecclesiastical law that governs The Episcopal Church.

The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving and death; then we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, faith communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life.

Each Sunday when the Rev. Dr. Beverly Collinsworth begins the service at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, the sanctuary has already been prepared. Behind her and before her, candles flicker, lit by the church’s acolyte, 14-year-old Tyler Rodrigue-Hejhal.

On Sunday afternoon, February 17 at 4 o'clock, the Wilma Ruth Combs Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians and the Diocese of Ohio will host this year's Absalom Jones service at Christ Church, Shaker Heights. Bishop Williams will be the celebrant and the Rev. Sharon Williams, Priest-in-Charge at Historic St. Andrew’s, Cleveland, will preach. I write to encourage you to attend this service and to remember Absalom Jones in your prayers on his feast day, February 13, and in your parishes on February 17.

St. Tim’s Discovers, the chamber music series sponsored by St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, opens the year with a recital by Sax 4th Avenue on Jan. 20.