Advent 3 The Rev’d Jean-Daniel Ó Donnċaḋa  

Second Sunday in Advent Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister I arrived in Los Angeles during a 10-year drought. After my first year there, I moved into a one-room cottage behind an apartment building which boasted a treasure: it had its own garden. Bare, brown earth. […]

Advent 1 The Rev’d Ralph Leavitt I want to start by saying what a joy it has been to become a member of Christ Church Cathedral, and thank you Dean Betrand for inviting me to preach today on Advent One. Happy New Year everyone! I speak to you in the name of the Father, the […]

Sermon for Reign of Christ Eph 1:15-23 – Psalm 95.1-7a – Mat 25.31-46 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal I experienced a sense of dèjà vu as I was preparing this sermon and mulling over the texts set for today. Thinking of monarchy chimed in my head with […]

Sermon for the Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost I Thess 5: 1-11, Psalm 90, Matthew 25: 14-30 Tevfik Karatop

Sermon for Remembrance Day Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson

All Saints Day I John 3:1-3; Ps 34 Matt 5:1-12 Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister On November 1st, 1997, I spent the evening at a choir rehearsal, practicing the pieces of music which we would sing for All Saints Sunday. We sang There is a Balm in Gilead (my stepfather’s favorite spiritual) and Stanford’s setting of […]

Do you remember when it was possible to get on a plane and go somewhere? Maybe because I don’t fly often, I have always thrilled to see the city I live in shrinking as the plane rises, see the great St. Lawrence below me stretching out in both directions.  And sometimes you can actually get […]

201018 – Sermon for Pentecost 20 Year A Isaiah 45.1-7 – Psalm 96 – 1 Thess 1.1-10 – Matthew 22.15-22 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s As I approach […]

Harvest Thanksgiving The Rev’d Jean-Daniel Ó Donnċaḋa

Feast of St. Francis                             Jer 22:13-16; Ps 148:7-14 Gal 6:14-18; Matt 11: 25-30  The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister  In August of 1224, St.Francis took three of his companions into the wilderness for a time of fasting and of prayer.  They went there because Francis was dying, and he sought some space to prepare for his […]

The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21:23-32 Vivian Lewin