I trust you know what a blessing you and Fletcher have been to us, especially to me. I thank God for your ministry and pray for safe travels home to your wonderful feline companions. I am so glad they remained with you when you left the cathedral, and I hope they have found happiness in their new home. How could they not, with such kind and loving human companions. Thank you for continuing to minister to the Garden Congregation.
Alleiulia! Welcome back Dean Willis and Fletcher. I have so missed the MP you offered during the Pandemic to the Garden Congregation. Happy Easter to you both !.
What a gift you and Fletcher are! Thank you so much for continuing your ministry to us, the Church, the World! I have so missed the daily MP that you offered during the Pandemic. It saved my spiritual life then and still lifts me every time I hear your words. God’s blessing continue to be upon you! Sister BJ Brown
Oh, oh oh! You are back! What an Easter gift, what an Easter blessing! I am so thankful, so grateful. May you both be blessed in abundance, as you have blessed us in the GC
It’s such a joy to hear Fr. Robert’s morning prayer again! Thank you both for taking us along on your pilgrimage journeys and for all the wonderful programs you very kindly produced during the difficult pandemic years. May God bless you continuously, and may we hear from you again sharing your thoughts on Christianity, music, philosophy, poetry, ….! ❤🙏
Dear Dean Robert and Fletcher - it is so good to see your kind face and to hear your inspirational words. I have missed you every day and was so delighted to find you have filmed again during this first week of Easter! I am so glad to hear that you still have your kitties with you and that they are waiting to see you when you return to England. I do hope you will record from there sometime so we can all see them, silly but I feel like I know them as I know both of you. Have a blessed and safe trip back home and thank you both for the pictures, the commentaries on the places you have been and the thoughtful spirit-filled sermons and meditations along the way. I pray for you daily.
Thank you so much Dean Robert and Fletcher. This is such a wonderful treat to hear your words of wisdom. We love your morning prayer very much. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I have only found this Morning Prayer today although I’ve been on Utube every day watching old ones. I also have been forwarding them to my brother Keith. What a wonderful surprise. Praise the Lord!
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher for giving us Morning prayer again with the Easter message. We will be anticipating with pleasure additional "Morning Prayer" with Tiger or Leo or both in attendance too. God speed with safe travels.
Thank you, thank you! Blessings to you and Fletcher and the cats, I did not know they were yours. So glad to hear they are well. Thank you Reverend for your morning prayers, you help me draw closer to God and I enjoy them very much. My mother does too.
Dear Rev'd Robert and Fletcher - what a joy to find this Morning Prayer for yesterday. I can only say that you have both been missed so very much. Enjoy your 'downtime', you both deserve.
Thank you so much, dear Dean Robert and Fletcher, finding this gift today has meant the world to me and my family, to be able to worship together in our home like this, thank you so much! God bless you all and so good to hear the shout out to Leo and Tiger, we miss them so much too and hope to see them again!
I am thrilled to have you both back. This was a most wonderful reflection on the Resurrection. My husband passed away on Holy Tueday and it was always our daily habit to watch Morning Prayer. We were in 2022 when he passed. I still continue the habit and pictue him in his favorite chair praying along with Dean Willis. It has been a great comfort to me in these difficult days. Bless you.
O! What a lovely surprise to see you and share morning prayer with you dear Dean Robert! It was in fact night prayer as it is 2 am in Paris! You made my night! Thank you kindly, I really needed this encounter and prayers. I look forward to listening to you in the company of Leo, Tiger and Lilly soonest! Kind regards to you and Fletcher ❤️
For those of us still mostly locked down because of our health condition & the ongoing but often not seen threat that remains from COVID this is such a gift. The world has largely forgotten the threat posed to many vulnerable people. You are giving us such a gift. God has given you a special calling & we treasure your gift to us.
Dear Dean Robert and Fletcher. What a joy to join with you both again. Thank you so much. Wishing you a joyous Easter tide. With love and continued prayers
Dear Father Robert , how lovely to see you ,because I have been ill I had to miss Mass on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday ,and of course the stations of the Cross on Good Friday …..I loved your videos during the pandemic they were so enjoyable ,and gave such hope ,thank you.
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher for bringing these messages to us theough the Garden Congregation. I am homebound and these messages are a great comfort to me. God Bless you.
Your words on the importance of encouragement touched my heart. There is such a focus in the world that we should not depend on the praise of others. Yet it does feel good to calibrate that we are on the right track when someone encourages us. Such a paradox. I feel the energy from you to be that encouragement is good. How do we ask for that from others?
Happy Easter to all in the worldwide Garden Congregation, and much appreciation to Dean Robert and Fletcher for this welcome visit to our hearts and homes! You have been very much missed ❤
What a great way to start the day. Manila's heat index getting more and more unbearable each day. Hearing the ever soothing voice of Dean Robert once more makes me forget my discomfort and all. Thank you very much for bringing back this daily gospel reading and reflection. Keep safe Dean and Fletcher.
Such a beautiful meditation to cap off a most memorable Holy Week following your pilgrimage alongside our own. I felt so encouraged as my heart was warmed like those who walked the road to Emmaus. Also ❤ the Easter decor ! 🐰 🐰 Thanks for sharing with the GC. Your kitties will be glad to see you 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️
Thank you Dean Robert for your loving encouragement to us your Garden Congregation. It's really good to have the continuing benefit of your wisdom and interpretation of the Gospel and bible generally and indeed to see and hear you again. It is very much appreciated. Martin and Lynn Gorman
Thank you so much, both of you, for this unexpected treat. I have really enjoyed going with you on these travels -- thank you, Dean, for your talks, and thank you, Fletcher, for your terrific photos and running commentary. And I'd like to express my very deep gratitude to Dean Robert for establishing the pattern of morning and evening prayer on my life. Also, on your suggestion, I've been keeping a journal, which has been tremendously helpful over the past couple of years. Godspeed on your journey home. Isn't the Hudson River Valley gorgeous?! I love that area, although I've never seen it before the leaves come.😊
Thank you again Dean Robert for an uplifting morning Prayer: quite unexpected I might add! (Trust Fletcher to faithfully emerge when we need him)! Safe travels, as you finally reunite with your feline family! Love and Blessings!
Dearest Dean Robert and Fletcher, it has been delightful to pray with you and wonderful to share this special teaching. Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to record and share this with me, with us. I'm sure I share with many a true love for both of you and a deep gratitude for all of your teachings. Love to you both
I opened up Garden Congregation to find a 2yr old recording. What a surprise to see this video, made on Easter Monday. It was wonderful to see Dean Robert and Fletcher in Toronto, and hear the Dean preach in person, and meet him. I come from Bristol UK, and grew up very close to where he lived!
Dean Robert and Fletcher, I cannot thank you enough for this lovely surprise Morning Prayer! I was delighted to be able to spend Holy Week and Easter with you at St. Thomas through the blessing of the internet. You two are truly a blessing to us all. Enjoy your time in Pawling -- I grew up in nearby Westchester and summered in the Catskills and I know that beautiful area well (beautiful even when the leaves are not yet on the trees). Happy Easter to you both, and safe travels!
Wonderful to see the brightness of this welcoming video appear - keep safe - everyone of us. Joy, love and blessings from Cynthia in Adelaide , South Australia
Thankyou for spreading words of renewal of spirit to continue the pilgrim's journey untill we live in glory forever. God bless you both. Thankyou for your presence the voice in the wilderness and the vision to believe in one true man.The love of God lives and remains within us forever. Its wonderful to share the beauty iof being in the garden congregation.The scented fragrance never ends and opens our world to healing of mind,body,soul and spirit. All things bright and beautiful all creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful the Lord God made them all. God bless you both on your journey home
Happy Easter! It is such a blessing to have spent this Lent and Holy Week and Easter with you both! Thank you for sharing your teaching and reflection with us, Dean Robert! Thank you Fletcher for the beautiful photos and travelogue!
The calm balm of your presence here, Dean Robert, with wise Fletcher behind the camera, is the kindest and most generous Easter gift. Bless your remaining time in the States, and on your return home, do please give extra love to Tiger and Leo and thank Chris and Martin for their gentle care of them. So very grateful to see you again here. xx Nini
Thank you for sharing your Pilgrimage, it has been an honour and very moving ❤ Easter has been very special and you have both made it more so. Please more garden congregation videos, when you have the time. Safe journey home. Xx
So absolutely wonderful to see you again. Thank you so much for this morning Prayer, you are very kind to give us this Easter gift of your time and wisdom 🙏🕯️ Thank you also to Fletcher for the marvellous photos and journal in which he has allowed us to share 🕊️
Oh! Are you back to doing the Garden Congregation each day?! This has made me so happy to see you this way again, I actually teared up. ❤ 🐇🐣❤Happy Easter❤🐣🐇 I mean, I know it's a lot of work, and you are due your time off but I have sorely missed your garden services. When I was a child and even into my teens and college years, I watched Mr. Rodgers. His kindness and goodness exuded from the TV, and he made me feel at home. You are my grown-up Mr Rodgers, and I have missed you so much. I love seeing your travels, but these Garden Congregation daily prayer and stories are just what I've needed. Thank you. ❤
Thank you both for this, and for the efflorescence here over the past weeks and months. I read in a post not long ago that filming these videos brought back, in part, memories of a difficult time. I write to add to your encouragement. I've had, as I'm sure many have, the experience of leaving an endeavor into which I had poured all of my energy and creativity for a very long time. But since then (sorry, like you, for the conjunction!) I have found the next go-round to be even more fruitful and rewarding - of course! I had missed these daily fugues of mind and spirit, and thank you for bringing this community back together!
I trust you know what a blessing you and Fletcher have been to us, especially to me. I thank God for your ministry and pray for safe travels home to your wonderful feline companions. I am so glad they remained with you when you left the cathedral, and I hope they have found happiness in their new home. How could they not, with such kind and loving human companions. Thank you for continuing to minister to the Garden Congregation.
How wonderful to hear Dean Robert saying morning prayer again. Feeling very blessed and happy. Praise be to God for all his marvellous gifts.
Welcome back!
Alleiulia! Welcome back Dean Willis and Fletcher. I have so missed the MP you offered during the Pandemic to the Garden Congregation. Happy Easter to you both !.
What a gift you and Fletcher are! Thank you so much for continuing your ministry to us, the Church, the World! I have so missed the daily MP that you offered during the Pandemic. It saved my spiritual life then and still lifts me every time I hear your words. God’s blessing continue to be upon you! Sister BJ Brown
Oh, oh oh! You are back! What an Easter gift, what an Easter blessing! I am so thankful, so grateful. May you both be blessed in abundance, as you have blessed us in the GC
Thank you! You kept up going and I so miss your morning prayers and readings!❤ Prayers for your journey and time off!
It's not an April Fool - it's really, you, Robert and Fletcher!! So good to have you back...
What a gift to have morning prayer again. Thanks for this gift.
It’s such a joy to hear Fr. Robert’s morning prayer again! Thank you both for taking us along on your pilgrimage journeys and for all the wonderful programs you very kindly produced during the difficult pandemic years. May God bless you continuously, and may we hear from you again sharing your thoughts on Christianity, music, philosophy, poetry, ….! ❤🙏
My heartfelt thanks for this unexpected Easter blessing.
Thank you dear Dean Robert. Thank you, kind Fletcher.
Dear Dean Robert and Fletcher - it is so good to see your kind face and to hear your inspirational words. I have missed you every day and was so delighted to find you have filmed again during this first week of Easter! I am so glad to hear that you still have your kitties with you and that they are waiting to see you when you return to England. I do hope you will record from there sometime so we can all see them, silly but I feel like I know them as I know both of you. Have a blessed and safe trip back home and thank you both for the pictures, the commentaries on the places you have been and the thoughtful spirit-filled sermons and meditations along the way. I pray for you daily.
Thank you so much Dean Robert and Fletcher. This is such a wonderful treat to hear your words of wisdom. We love your morning prayer very much. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!
Glad you are back Dean Robert! What a joy!
I have only found this Morning Prayer today although I’ve been on Utube every day watching old ones. I also have been forwarding them to my brother Keith. What a wonderful surprise. Praise the Lord!
What a lovely surprise ❤!
So lovely to see your prayers in the Garden Congregation!
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher for giving us Morning prayer again with the Easter message. We will be anticipating with pleasure additional "Morning Prayer" with Tiger or Leo or both in attendance too. God speed with safe travels.
So nice to have you back on for prayer❤️🙏
Thank you, thank you! Blessings to you and Fletcher and the cats, I did not know they were yours. So glad to hear they are well. Thank you Reverend for your morning prayers, you help me draw closer to God and I enjoy them very much. My mother does too.
Dear Rev'd Robert and Fletcher - what a joy to find this Morning Prayer for yesterday. I can only say that you have both been missed so very much. Enjoy your 'downtime', you both deserve.
How thankful I am for Eastertide Morning Prayer! Such a delight to the Garden Congregation!
Thank you so much, dear Dean Robert and Fletcher, finding this gift today has meant the world to me and my family, to be able to worship together in our home like this, thank you so much! God bless you all and so good to hear the shout out to Leo and Tiger, we miss them so much too and hope to see them again!
How wonderful to see you again and a very happy Easter to you both. 🌺
I am thrilled to have you both back. This was a most wonderful reflection on the Resurrection. My husband passed away on Holy Tueday and it was always our daily habit to watch Morning Prayer. We were in 2022 when he passed. I still continue the habit and pictue him in his favorite chair praying along with Dean Willis. It has been a great comfort to me in these difficult days. Bless you.
This! We can't thank you both enough for this glorious Easter gift. Love and blessings to you both, with sincerest gratitude.
Lovely to have you back. You are both a blessing to the world
Thank you for your generous company today 🙏 enjoy your R&R!
O! What a lovely surprise to see you and share morning prayer with you dear Dean Robert! It was in fact night prayer as it is 2 am in Paris! You made my night! Thank you kindly, I really needed this encounter and prayers. I look forward to listening to you in the company of Leo, Tiger and Lilly soonest! Kind regards to you and Fletcher ❤️
How delightful to see you again. We’ve missed you both a great deal. Thank you for this!
More wonderful thoughts for my spiritual knapsack. Thank you!
So wonderful. Thank you thank you thank you. Sending love.
Such a blessing to once again enjoy morning prayer with Dean Robert and Fletcher. Ken from Alabama USA
What a joyous treat! Continued prayers for safe travels. Thank you, Dean Robert & Fletcher!
❤🙏❤️
I was so excited to find that you’ve made a new morning prayer video!!!! Thank you and blessings to you both.
Wonderfull! Thank you Dean Robert for sharing your message once again🙏🏻🙏🏻
For those of us still mostly locked down because of our health condition & the ongoing but often not seen threat that remains from COVID this is such a gift. The world has largely forgotten the threat posed to many vulnerable people. You are giving us such a gift. God has given you a special calling & we treasure your gift to us.
Happy Easter Mr. Dean
Dear Dean Robert and Fletcher. What a joy to join with you both again. Thank you so much. Wishing you a joyous Easter tide. With love and continued prayers
Thank-you so much, Dean Robert and Fletcher! This is an answer to prayer! Godspeed in your journeys!
What a special blessing for Easter! Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher.
What a joy this morning (Wednesday of Easter week) to join with the GC for morning prayer. Thank you DR and Fletcher. Safe travels home.
Dear Father Robert , how lovely to see you ,because I have been ill I had to miss Mass on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday ,and of course the stations of the Cross on Good Friday …..I loved your videos during the pandemic they were so enjoyable ,and gave such hope ,thank you.
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher for bringing these messages to us theough the Garden Congregation. I am homebound and these messages are a great comfort to me. God Bless you.
Thank you! Thank you! God bless you and Fletcher--and the cats!
Your words on the importance of encouragement touched my heart. There is such a focus in the world that we should not depend on the praise of others. Yet it does feel good to calibrate that we are on the right track when someone encourages us. Such a paradox.
I feel the energy from you to be that encouragement is good.
How do we ask for that from others?
Wonderful to hear the scriptures with such meaning
Reverend Robert and Fletcher, thank you so very much for this Easter blessing!
Hurrah! They’re back !!
I sure hope so!!!
So enjoyed this message... from Norfolk, Virginia.
Happy Easter to all in the worldwide Garden Congregation, and much appreciation to Dean Robert and Fletcher for this welcome visit to our hearts and homes! You have been very much missed ❤
Blessed are those that have not seen but believe. Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher.
So so wonderful to have a Morning Prayer in the present. You are very special to me.✝️🙏
What a great way to start the day. Manila's heat index getting more and more unbearable each day. Hearing the ever soothing voice of Dean Robert once more makes me forget my discomfort and all. Thank you very much for bringing back this daily gospel reading and reflection. Keep safe Dean and Fletcher.
Thank you Dean Robert for connecting up the Garden Congregation again and ministering to us. Wishing you and Fletcher a blessed Eastertide!
This made me so happy to see when I opened TH-cam! Thanks you so much!
I have missed your morning prayers so much since your retirement. May the Lord bless you and Fletcher. Happy Easter!
Such a beautiful meditation to cap off a most memorable Holy Week following your pilgrimage alongside our own. I felt so encouraged as my heart was warmed like those who walked the road to Emmaus. Also ❤ the Easter decor ! 🐰 🐰 Thanks for sharing with the GC. Your kitties will be glad to see you 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️
Blessings to Dean Robert, Fletcher, and to all the Garden Congregation
Thank you Dean Robert for your loving encouragement to us your Garden Congregation. It's really good to have the continuing benefit of your wisdom and interpretation of the Gospel and bible generally and indeed to see and hear you again. It is very much appreciated. Martin and Lynn Gorman
Thank you so much, both of you, for this unexpected treat. I have really enjoyed going with you on these travels -- thank you, Dean, for your talks, and thank you, Fletcher, for your terrific photos and running commentary.
And I'd like to express my very deep gratitude to Dean Robert for establishing the pattern of morning and evening prayer on my life. Also, on your suggestion, I've been keeping a journal, which has been tremendously helpful over the past couple of years.
Godspeed on your journey home. Isn't the Hudson River Valley gorgeous?! I love that area, although I've never seen it before the leaves come.😊
A very happy Easter to you both What a lovely surprise your encouragement has been so uplifting Thank you Nicholas
Happy Easter to everyone! What a pleasant surprise. ☘
Thank you so much! What a special treat.
Lovely to see you again Robert, God bless you.
Thank you again Dean Robert for an uplifting morning Prayer: quite unexpected I might add! (Trust Fletcher to faithfully emerge when we need him)!
Safe travels, as you finally reunite with your feline family!
Love and Blessings!
Thank you, Dean Robert. We have missed your Garden Congregation. A lovely surprise today.
such deep joy and pleasure to hear Dean Robert again!
What a gift this Morning Prayer is having been sick after Easter.
Thank you so much. Greetings from Morocco. Lovely to hear you again and thanks for your encouraging words. God bless you both. ❤
This is such a blessing to have Dean Robert and Fletcher with us again! Thank you!
Dearest Dean Robert and Fletcher, it has been delightful to pray with you and wonderful to share this special teaching.
Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to record and share this with me, with us.
I'm sure I share with many a true love for both of you and a deep gratitude for all of your teachings.
Love to you both
I opened up Garden Congregation to find a 2yr old recording. What a surprise to see this video, made on Easter Monday. It was wonderful to see Dean Robert and Fletcher in Toronto, and hear the Dean preach in person, and meet him. I come from Bristol UK, and grew up very close to where he lived!
❤❤❤ so glad to see you again. Thanks for this message.
Dean Robert and Fletcher, I cannot thank you enough for this lovely surprise Morning Prayer! I was delighted to be able to spend Holy Week and Easter with you at St. Thomas through the blessing of the internet. You two are truly a blessing to us all. Enjoy your time in Pawling -- I grew up in nearby Westchester and summered in the Catskills and I know that beautiful area well (beautiful even when the leaves are not yet on the trees). Happy Easter to you both, and safe travels!
We're delighted to see you back on screen again and just can't tell you how much it means to us. Adrian and Janette
Wonderful to see the brightness of this welcoming video appear - keep safe - everyone of us. Joy, love and blessings from Cynthia in Adelaide , South Australia
Thank you
Absolutely beautiful message. Thank you. 🙏 ❤ 🌎 🕊
New Dean Willis Morning prayer videos, I am THERE. Also apparently 4 days late but still. Thank you Dean Willis and Fletcher
Thankyou for spreading words of renewal of spirit to continue the pilgrim's journey untill we live in glory forever.
God bless you both.
Thankyou for your presence the voice in the wilderness and the vision to believe in one true man.The love of God lives and remains within us forever.
Its wonderful to share the beauty iof being in the garden congregation.The scented fragrance never ends and opens our world to healing of mind,body,soul and spirit.
All things bright and beautiful all creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful the Lord God made them all.
God bless you both on your journey home
Happy Easter! It is such a blessing to have spent this Lent and Holy Week and Easter with you both! Thank you for sharing your teaching and reflection with us, Dean Robert! Thank you Fletcher for the beautiful photos and travelogue!
Thank you for brightening my day.
Thank you so much Dean Robert for the service. So wonderful to see you again and listen to your beautiful message.
What a wonderful surprise! Greetings from Ontario Canada.
Happy Easter! Miss you!!
Thank you so much for this. Happy Easter to you both!
Thank you so very much for your encouragement and kindness extended to us through your teaching of Scripture as it comes alive to us. God bless you.
The calm balm of your presence here, Dean Robert, with wise Fletcher behind the camera, is the kindest and most generous Easter gift. Bless your remaining time in the States, and on your return home, do please give extra love to Tiger and Leo and thank Chris and Martin for their gentle care of them. So very grateful to see you again here. xx Nini
Thank you for taking time to bless us with this morning prayer, it means so much to all of us!
Thank you for sharing your Pilgrimage, it has been an honour and very moving ❤ Easter has been very special and you have both made it more so. Please more garden congregation videos, when you have the time. Safe journey home. Xx
What a joy! The best possible Easter present ever. Thank you for this video and taking this time for us. 🙏
So absolutely wonderful to see you again. Thank you so much for this morning Prayer, you are very kind to give us this Easter gift of your time and wisdom 🙏🕯️
Thank you also to Fletcher for the marvellous photos and journal in which he has allowed us to share 🕊️
God bless you for your joy and inspiration. Thank you for your love. Bundle up, safe travels and love to Tiger!❤
Oh! Are you back to doing the Garden Congregation each day?! This has made me so happy to see you this way again, I actually teared up. ❤
🐇🐣❤Happy Easter❤🐣🐇
I mean, I know it's a lot of work, and you are due your time off but I have sorely missed your garden services. When I was a child and even into my teens and college years, I watched Mr. Rodgers. His kindness and goodness exuded from the TV, and he made me feel at home.
You are my grown-up Mr Rodgers, and I have missed you so much.
I love seeing your travels, but these Garden Congregation daily prayer and stories are just what I've needed.
Thank you. ❤
A very nice surprise today to hear you reading Morning Prayer while sitting in our living room in Newport RI.
thank you for your time.
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher. It is so wonderful to hear morning prayer again. I hope Lily is with you still. Xx 34:04
A beautiful meditation .
Thank you Dean Robert and Fletcher.
Thank you both for this, and for the efflorescence here over the past weeks and months. I read in a post not long ago that filming these videos brought back, in part, memories of a difficult time. I write to add to your encouragement. I've had, as I'm sure many have, the experience of leaving an endeavor into which I had poured all of my energy and creativity for a very long time. But since then (sorry, like you, for the conjunction!) I have found the next go-round to be even more fruitful and rewarding - of course! I had missed these daily fugues of mind and spirit, and thank you for bringing this community back together!
Yay:))) 💚🙏🙏🙏🙏🎵☺️