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 Day 2021 The People who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal YouTube recording of the service – sermon begins at 28:32 A study at Liverpool Cathedral in England has just been published which shows that attending Christmas services has a […]
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 […]
Advent 3 Zephaniah 3:14-20; Canticle 9; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver YouTube recording of the service – the sermon begins at 26:00 Today, the third Sunday of Advent, is a day for joy. It is in fact traditionally called in Latin Gaudete Sunday, Gaudete – or rejoice – the first word […]
Advent 2 Mal 3:1-4; Benedictus Phil 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6a The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister YouTube recording of the service – sermon begins at 24:49 Retournez à Montreal! Retournez à Montreal! Go back to Montreal! Go back to Montreal! Those words broke my heart this week when I heard them on my car radio. They were part […]
Advent 1 Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal YouTube recording of the service – Vivian’s sermon starts at 23:40 Happy New Year, my friends. Perhaps you were downtown yesterday. If you were, you would have seen a lot of people shopping. A handful of us were in this building for a Quiet Day, […]
Remembrance – 14 November 2021 Daniel 12:1-3; Ps 16; Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25, Mark 13:1-8 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver YouTube recording of the service – Bertrand’s sermon starts around 23:00 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the […]
The Twenty Fourth Sunday After Pentecost The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest YouTube recording of the service –Ralph ’s sermon starts at 19:40 This morning I want to talk about perhaps the most famous prayer in the Anglican Church. And that is the Collect we just prayed. Eternal God, who caused all holy scriptures to be […]
All Saints Sunday Wis 3:1-9; Ps 24 Rev 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister YouTube recording of the service. The sermon begins around 29:00 One hundred three years ago, a child was born into conditions of great injustice. Although he was living in his own land, his people knew no freedom. The boy grew, […]
Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal YouTube recording of the service. The sermon begins at 18:30… I need to tell you, my friends, before I get into the nitty gritty of this sermon, that I’m a member of the Cathedral’s Stewardship Committee. This is not, strictly speaking, […]
Thanksgiving Joel 2:21-27; Ps 126; 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Matthew 6:25-33 ‘But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.’ The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver There is a real sense of joyfulness and of celebration with the first hymn we sang – ‘Come, […]
Feast of St. Francis Jeremiah 22: 13-16; Ps 148:7-18,Gal 6:14-18; Matt 11:25-30 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages. (Jer 22:13) I first met St. Francis in the […]