First Sunday after Christmas Isaiah 63:7-9 – Psalm 148 – Hebrews 2:10-18 – Matthew 2:13-23 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector There is something almost shocking about the way the lectionary carries us from Christmas Eve to the Sunday after Christmas. We go from shepherds and angels, warmth and candlelight, to the terror […]

Christmas  2024 Isaiah 9:2-7; Ps 96 Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM “And Mary gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger.” (Luke 2:7) And after all that, does it matter? Is what we have heard something real, something to […]

Christmas Eve 2023 Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM What’s your favorite memory of Christmas? The glimmering of the tree on Christmas morn? Tiny children being towed on toboggans? Flying down hills on a sled that seemed to move as swiftly as air? Not so much this year, eh? This year is kind of gray and […]

First Sunday after Christmas Luke 2: 41-52 The Rev’d Jen Bourque YouTube recording of the service – sermon   Several years ago, before I became a parent, a friend, a Roman Catholic priest, told me he was preaching on the seven sorrows of Mary and particularly this story, of Jesus being lost in the temple.  […]

Christmas Eve, 2021 Isaiah 9:2-7; Ps 96 Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2: 1-20 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister YouTube recording of the service – sermon starts at 31:15 “And Mary gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger.” (Luke 2:7) This is not the Christmas we were longing […]

The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister

The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal

Christmas Day sermon – Amy Hamilton