Take a moment to SIT. Breathe calmly. Ask for light on the past day. What SURPRISED you? (That’s the S in S-I-T.) What INSPIRED you? What TOUCHED you? Give thanks. Repeat daily. And have a wonderful summer. This fresh take on the traditional Daily Examen comes from Phillip Chircop...
“Putting the Gospel in the Centre of our Sacred Circle” is one way to share individually or in small groups with a practice used by Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island. (Similar methods have been used in Latin America.) Any event or meeting can be organized and carried out with the...
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you,” writes Anne Lamott. Here are some opportunities beyond the parish, but nearby, to unplug and/or refocus. April 16 (Saturday) 9am to 4pm Workshop: Moving from discernment to decisions Exploring issues and tools connected with...
All around the world, Christians commemorate Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday with pageantry. In England’s Salisbury Cathedral, a child dressed as Jesus rides a real donkey. At Notre Dame de la Défense in Montreal’s Little Italy, olive branches are held up and blessed. Eastern European churches bless pussy willows. At Christ...
Some services are simple with just a handful of people, some are much larger with many people in the congregation. The biggest services for each day, where there will be the largest congregation and full music are underlined. You are welcome to attend any of the services at the Cathedral....
Last Sunday’s sermon on Luke’s gospel by Donald Boisvert reviewed Jesus’ temptation in the desert. The scripture is worth reading and re-reading (en français ici). A contemporary author describes another dimension of temptation… that of the trivial: “There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends...
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For Lent this year, SJAG (the Cathedral’s Social Justice Action Group) proposes we select one of the 94 recommendations put forward by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in their final report in 2015. They have winnowed these down to 10 possibilities… and invite you to vote on Sunday or to take part in...
As we get ready for Candlemas and pancakes, we pack away our Alleluias until Easter and, our Christmas decorations until next year. Maybe your collection of ornaments, like mine, includes some that have been broken and mended more than once. They still have sentimental value. But sometimes the thing is really beyond...
January is named for the Roman two-faced god Janus who looked both back and ahead. As a spiritual practice this week, consider simply allowing yourself to be fully in the present moment. That is the first of the “Spiritually Literate New Years Resolutions” offered by Frederic and Mary Brussat on...
In these busiest, dizziest days between Canadian Thanksgiving and Canadian elections… with DIocesan Synod thrown in for good measure… the need for REST becomes obvious. If you want to read while resting, here is a link to John Mark Comer’s essay “The Gift of the Sabbath: I Am Not a Machine.” He...
Photo: On a beach in Morocco, people take up the posture of little Aylan Kurdi, whose whose death sounded a wake-up call to the world, How are you responding personally to the refugee crisis? By endorsing the recommendations of Canadian organizations that work with refugees, about how to ramp up our...