Vendredi Saint méditation – Jean Jacques Goulet

Jean Jacques Goulet – méditation sur Éphésians 6:12 et Colossiens 2:15
Week of April 2nd

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...
Daring to come close [meditation talk]

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...
Take the crucifixion and give it a new home [meditation talk]

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...
Staying With the Moment [meditation talk]

“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...
Joining the crowd [spiritual practice]

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...
Week of March 26

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...
Retreat Update: Sally Harrington Philippo is guest speaker

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;...
Wednesdays at L’Oasis musicale

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”...
Why all that church is worth it in Holy Week

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.
Week of March 19

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...