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.  […]

Saint Mary The Virgin The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) The Rev’d Jen Bourque In the name of God, the holy and eternal one, Amen. The spring my family and I lived in Bordeaux, my son – who was just 4 – and I settled into a predictable pattern of half day kindergarten, followed by school pick up, […]

Pentecost 4 The Rev’d Jen Bourque

The Rev’d Jen Bourque

Advent 4 sermon – Jen Bourque

In the name of God, the source of all being, the eternal word and the Holy Spirit Almost 40 years ago, the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People¹ was published. It wasn’t the first time anyone asked that question, about the relationship between our actions, and God’s goodness, and our suffering, but it […]