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...
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.