*(Greek ‘martus’ meaning both witness and martyr) The young students murdered at Garissa University in Kenya, the 22 Coptic men beheaded on a beach in Libya, and now the 12 people thrown overboard to certain death in the Mediterranean are not only victims of evil, they are Christian martyrs every...
“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear...
Spring is certainly in the air in and around the Cathedral. The Fair Trade Kiosque Commerce Equitable, this Sunday 19th April, 11:30 – 12:30 is inspired by the Easter hymn ‘Now the Green Blade Riseth’ and will feature spring planters on special offer (herb trio was $24 now $15, a...
“It’s in stillness that we prepare ourselves for dealing with the realities of life, which are often very difficult ones.”- Pico Iyer More and more entirely secular people like the famous travel writer Pico Iyer are today being drawn to retreats and to the refreshment of quiet. He discusses...
An enormous thank you to all the people – clergy, choir, musicians, servers, stewards, readers and vergers – who created our joyous and beautiful Holy Week and Easter celebrations at the Cathedral. The large congregations felt truly blessed. Do you now have post-Easter exhaustion and think you can relax and...
Kat Speeckaert – meditation on Luke 23: 39-49 The wood of this cross is rough against my naked back. Still morning, and the sun is already too hot, too bright. My body aches, and I try not to think about it. A fly lands on my face and I shake...
Jean Jacques Goulet – méditation sur Éphésians 6:12 et Colossiens 2:15
It’s hard not to be aware that, as Christians, we are swimming against the mainstream secularised culture. The weekend of the high holy religious festivals, Easter and Passover, is the time when university students demonstrate, high school students play hockey tournaments and everyone shops for their new spring outfits. It...
Tuesday in Holy Week, 2015 A Reading from the Holy Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 26 6 Now, while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as...
Monday in Holy Week, 2015 Matthew 23 : 29 – 39 29 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30 and you say, “If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would...
“What we discipline is any form of potential escape from reality. In other words, discipline allows us to be right here and connect with the richness of the moment.” Pema Chödrön’s reflection on discipline was the subject of last week’s meditation talk. Chödrön is a well-known writer, the first fully...