When the Advocate comes, the Advocate will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: Sin, righteousness, judgment, – not exactly the most encouraging words to begin my sermon – but how nice to be affirmed by Jesus that so many people, over the ages – including us of course, have got it […]
You did not choose me, – said Jesus – but I chose you. Which is not often how we think of our faith. We like to think that we choose whether or not we believe, whether or not we come to church. …. how we live our life. Jesus said : You did not choose […]
Do not doubt but believe. When you were very small you probably dressed up as doctors or nurses, as fire-officers or cartoon characters –my first school even had a dressing up corner at where we could play at being teachers and homemakers and all the rest. Even the youngest children learn by watching and copying […]
Palm Sunday sermon, following the dramatic presentation of the Passion Story (Mark 14:1 – 15:47) by Jennifer Morehouse, Jane Wheeler and James Loye.
Hoping against hope – For he was about one hundred years old. In the name of ….. One hundred years old is quite some age for a career change, – Watch out Catherine and Susan – it all started for Abraham when he reached 99 – you’ve got a little way to go yet, but […]
That evening, at sundown, they brought to Jesus all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons May I speak ………………… I remember once trying to lead Sunday night Compline from the […]
The Three Wise Men were not particularly wise, nor were they necessarily men, and there might not have been only three of them or even three of them. They were not kings, they may not have ridden camels. They didn’t follow a star and they didn’t find Jesus in a stable, or in a cave […]
The Cathedral has been full of music and prayer as we retold the wonderful story of how God came to take flesh and be born as one of us, Jesus the Christ Child. Below are links to the three sermons preached at the Cathedral on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As you enter the season […]
When Will and Kate came to Montreal in 2011– that’s Prince William and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge, I waited for three hours for just a glimpse of the royal couple. At first the police separated the crowds into two distinct camps – sheep and goats – as it were – the pro-royalists to the […]
One hundred years ago – almost to the month – the Princess Pats – Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry – landed in France to fight. Other Canadian soldiers would join them in 1915. Eventually 66,000 Canadians would die in the First World War out of a Canadian population of 8 million. On Tuesday we will […]
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. May I speak in the name of God ….. Whenever the Church gets itself into heated arguments about who can get married in church, who can take communion – when, where and how, and who can be ordained, today’s Gospel is never far away: […]
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. Only S. Matthew – of all the evangelists – could have written that. Both Mark and Luke’s have the same parable of the vineyard in their Gospels, but […]