Christmas Eve sermon preached by Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson

Sermon for Advent 4 ARE YOU READY TO OPEN YOUR PRESENT? Let it be unto me according to your word. God comes to us in the present moment. During this time of year, it’s easy to find ourselves on a crazy seesaw swinging between the past and the future… up and down… sometimes leery, sometimes […]

Second Sunday of Advent

Sermon for the first Sunday of Advent Bishop Monument Makhanya of the Diocese of Zululand

Readings for Pentecost 24: Zeph 1:7,12-18; Ps 90:1-8,12; 1 Thess 5:1-11; Matt 25:14-30. That we are entering a natural time of darkness was unavoidable 2 weeks ago as we changed our clocks to give us more daylight to start our days.   This sign of darkening times is echoed well in the readings of this Christian […]

CCC, Montreal, Sept. 17, 2017 – Collation of Robert Camara as Archdeacon & Vicar-general “The time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel” – – and of Robert. It is a great honour to have been asked to preach at the […]

  HOMILY: 27 August 2017—Celebrating the Body Communal          In the name of the one, holy and undivided Trinity: Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.  Amen.          Today must be my lucky day.  It doesn’t happen often enough that preachers are given the perfect text for the perfect occasion, but today is one of those times.  On […]