Palm Sunday and Holy Week invite us to close the screen and join the community of faith in person. To discover new meanings in the scriptures, the liturgies, the learnings, the silences, the music. Here is a series of paintings of the Passion by Italian artist Carla Carli Mazzucato and...
We are about to enter the most sacred and important week in the Church’s year, Holy Week, during which we travel with Jesus from the crowd’s acclamation at his entry into Jerusalem, through his trial and crucifixion to his triumphant resurrection on Easter Day. Can there be any day but...
Sally Harrington Philippo will be our guest speaker during the Cathedral’s forthcoming Retreat. Places remain for the full retreat; you may also elect to sign up for a one-day Quiet Day on either Friday May 1, or Saturday May 2. Sally has been a spiritual director for more than l5 years;...
A brand new concert series every wednesday at 6.15pm 2015-4-8, 18:15 Piano Pot-pourri. Schumann: Piano Sonata in G minor, op.22 #2; Chopin: Etude, op.10 #4; Ravel: Oiseaux Tristes; Alborada del Gracioso; Rachmaninov: Prelude in G major, op.32 #5; Prelude in C minor, op.23 #7; Liszt: “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”...
There is a lot of church in Holy Week. In March’s Porous Church column on the Anglican Journal website, I offer one reason for why it’s worth it – and why you should bring your kids to some of it, too.
As we head down the path to a glorious Easter day we are coming to the end of the Lent study programmes. At the final study session during Sunday coffee hour we will welcome Benji Astrachan, an activist working with Divest McGill, who will speak on the campaign to get...
Starting this Sunday (March 22 in 2015), the season of Passiontide invites us to deepen our contemplation of suffering and the way God’s power is hidden from us. The veils now hanging over crosses and holy images in the Cathedral offer a visible reminder of this hiddenness. One has only to...
[Beth Adams’ talk on March 10, 2015] We recently discussed the Benedictine contemplative John Main, for whom the practice of meditation is, first of all, a way for us to become acquainted with ourselves. In his book Word into Silence, I was struck by this simple phrase: “In order to enter into...
This week Laetare Sunday reminds us to be joyful in the midst of this season in which we walk with Jesus towards death and new life. Ponder this parable from Mark 4:30-32 (français ici) comparing the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed. What is nourishing your soul this Lent?...
We are now past the mid-point of Lent. This Sunday is sometimes called Laetare Sunday from the opening words of the introit “Laetare O Jerusalem” (Rejoice O Jerusalem) and it is a day on which Lenten discipline is relaxed as we look forward to a joyful Easter. The clergy will...
Franciscan theologian Ilia Delio writes: “We belong by birth to this cosmos which is our home. If human nature is changing with technology then, in a sense, all of nature is changing or at least being affected by technology. That is, technology is evoking new patterns of relatedness which now include...
Important message to those planning to come to church on Sunday: remember that clocks spring forward one hour on Saturday night. There once was a vicar of the Cathedral who forgot to do this. Unfortunately he was supposed to be preaching. We are supposed to tuck away the alleluias during...