The First Sunday after Christmas Isaiah 61:10-62:3; Ps 148; Gal 4:4-7; Luke 2:22-40 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM Yesterday, I came across a picture of a red clay tile from ancient Rome, dating from about the time that Jesus was a baby. The tile bore the clear impression of a toddler’s footprint, echoing the […]
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 […]
Advent One The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM Isaiah 64:1-9; Ps 80: 1-7, 16-18; I Cor 1:3-9; Mark 13: 24-37 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— (Isaiah 64:1) Today is the first Sunday in Advent; traditionally, the start of the church […]
The Reign of Christ Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal This morning we come to the end of the story of our Christian year, which is always a deep dive into one of the three synoptic Gospels, proclaimed, in a slightly different way, in each of the three years of our lectionary […]
Remembrance Revelation 21:1-7- Psalm 23 – John 15:9-17 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector This summer, I completed a project which I had started a few years ago. When I was a child, one of our morning routines on days off was to go and wake up my mother with a cup of […]
All Saints Revelation 7:9-17- Psalm 34.1-10- 1 John 3:1-3– Matthew 5.1-12 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘When he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.’ Today, we are celebrating the Feast of All Saints – we have already sung familiar hymns of the season, […]
Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost Lev 19: 1-2, 15-18; Ps 1; 1 Thess 2:1-8; Matt 22: 34-46 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister This has been a tough few weeks. Something about this war in the Holy Land seems to have tipped many of us into a space of extreme fragility. I’m seeing it in conversations, in […]
Pentecost 20 Isaiah 45.1-7- Psalm 96- 1 Thess 1.1-10 – Matthew 22.15-22 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s’ I had scheduled these past few days to be on retreat in silence at the Cistercian […]
The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost Ezek 18:1-4, 25-32; Ps 25; Phil 2:1-13; Matt 21: 23-32 Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister One of the more perplexing — and sometimes frustrating — things about Jesus is that he taught in parables. Time and again, we open the Bible, seeking guidance or moral clarity for some situation in our […]
The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Gen 50:15-21; Ps 103:1-13; Rom 14:1-12; Matt 18: 21-35 Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM A few years ago, when I was being trained to companion people in their spiritual seeking, one of our teachers said something which has become a touchstone for me: The problem with forgiveness is that we […]
Pentecost 15 Ezekiel 33:7-11- Psalm 119:33-40- Romans 13:8-14 – Matthew 18.15-20 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.’ Well, it is good to be here on Welcome Back Sunday – the day in the calendar when most people are […]
Pentecost 11 1 Kings 19:9-18 – Psalm 85:8-13 – Romans 10:5-15 – Matthew 14.22-33 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector Today is the last day of Pride Week in Montreal, and culminates in the March which will take place this afternoon, and in which a group from the cathedral will take part, as […]