Click on the video link below to view an Epiphany season message from Bishop Rob.
To read the message, click here for a transcript.
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Dear Friends in Christ,
We have now entered a season of waiting for small things, events that the world doesn’t notice or easily dismisses. An adolescent girl is paid a visit by a mysterious presence. The same woman visits an aging cousin who is also expecting, which causes her child to move inside her. Grown men have dreams and visions that lead them to alter their plans. A child is born in a barn. In the present day we sit in front of tiny replicas of a small family, surrounded by farm animals and shepherds…
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September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of a day that cannot be forgotten in American history. That horrible day has become unlike any other day in our shared history. The neat lines that demarcate days on the calendar dissolve, and the meaning of 9/11 now spill into an era that I believe we are still wrestling to understand fully.
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My name is Robert Hirschfeld. I am Bishop of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire.
In my role as Bishop, I serve as President, ex officio, of the Boards of both the White Mountain
School and the Holderness School. Each of these are pr ivate schools with a long relationship
with the Episcopal Church. Each school was founded by one of my predecessors to provide
quality education to children of “more modest means” than those who were attending other
independent schools in the Granite State such as Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul’s School.
Read more HERE
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Bishop Hirschfeld’s Christmas Message can be found HERE.
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Behold, I am doing a new thing,
do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
Recently, Polly and I joined the many in our country who have immediate family members in the military. Our oldest son is now a Captain in the U.S. Army, serving as a doctor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.. … HERE
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Dear friends,
Grace and Peace be with you in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
I want to speak about the re-emergence of the COVID 19 virus in our state. There are new facts and trends of the coronavirus that now confront us. And there is troubling news in the short-term, even if we have been given real hope of an effective vaccine on its way in the coming months.
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O Jesus of Nazareth in Galilee, I’m just beginning to see how little I have known you.