Neil Reilly

I'm grateful to be able to bring my experience in the state government and the church to this campaign, and to activate Trinity's deep connections in the faith and housing world to build and grow this coalition calling on Albany to pass the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act!

Today, I preached for the first time! At the Eucharist at the St John the Divine I delivered a sermon on Jesus’ call of the twelve apostles—a call to be with him and to go out. In an increasingly divided church and world, it’s good to be reminded that God intends us to do our work together.

On top of the world 💍 @neildreilly.bsky.social Neil and I agreed last year that we would get married next year on our fifteenth, but fourteen years snuck up on us fast!

At the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine for the funeral of the XIV Bishop of New York, Richard Grein.

“For to your faithful people, O Lord, life is changed, not ended; and when our mortal body lies in death, there is prepared for us a dwelling place eternal in the heavens.”

Wishing you health and happiness in the new year! @neildreilly.bsky.social , Taylor, & Anderson 🐾

This is huge.

An entire faith-based movement, the Sanctuary Movement and, more recently, the New Sanctuary Movement, was built around this policy, where houses of worship allow undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation to live in their facilities until their deportation order is dropped.

Thank you so much, Sr. Judith! I will add this to my reading list :) Right now I am reading Thomas Merton’s commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict, it will be great to get some background into the world from which it emerged.

Action Alerts

H.R. 9495 would give the executive branch broad authority to rescind the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations that it disagrees with. Learn more & tell Congress to vote no to protect the ability of faith based orgs to advocate for justice:
www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...

Reading C. Brooke’s “The Age of the Cloister,” the first history of monasticism I’ve read. Given the diversity of religious communities today, I’m surprised by the uniquely central place Benedictine life has had in monasticism and the church in the west.

What should I read next on religious life?