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 […]

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 […]

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal This has been a horrible week. Bad News flooding in from the Holy Land, from the US, and from Quebec City.  (See note 1 below). As one of my friends said yesterday, “It makes my problems look a lot smaller.”  Problems that […]

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 […]

Transfiguration Sunday Daniel 7:9-10; 13-14; Ps 99; 2 Peter 1:16-19; Luke 9:28-36 The Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM  There’s a moment I always savor when I am lucky enough to get to the country for a few days. It’s the first clear night, after supper is ended, after the dishes have been washed and put […]

Pentecost 6 Zechariah 9:9-12 – Psalm 145:8-14 – Romans 7:15-25a – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 It is good to be back after a couple of weeks away visiting my mother in Bordeaux and also taking some time to find quietness and beauty in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain, taking the opportunity of […]

Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 – Psalm 139 – Romans 8:12-25 – Matthew 13.24-30; 36-43 Anyone who has been looking at our lawn on the cathedral side on Av. Union will have been wondering what is going on. As the construction zone dedicated to the restoration of our spire finally moved out, new fences were […]

Pentecost 5  Jer 28:5-9; Ps 89:1-4, 15-18; Rom 6:12-23; Matt 10:40-42 Rev’d Dr Deborah Meister, ODM One of my favorite hours of radio, ever, was an episode of “On Being” called Whale Songs and Elephant Loves. (https://onbeing.org/programs/katy-payne-in-the-presence-of-elephants-and-whales/). It was an extended conversation between the host, Krista Tippet, and Katy Payne, a musician who was actually […]

Pentecost 4 Jer 20:7-13; Ps 69: 7-18 Rom 6:1b-11; Matt 10:24-39 Rev’d Dr Deborah Meister, ODM All week, I have been struggling with anger. Like many of you, I read with increasing horror about the migrant tragedy which unfolded off the coast of Greece on June 14th: hundreds of people dead, few rescued, while the […]

Third Sunday after Pentecost Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal This morning we started out by singing what to me is a completely familiar hymn. The version I learned starts out, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below.”  It used to be called Old 100th or […]

Corpus Christi Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16; Ps 147: 12-15, 19-20; I Cor 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 Rev’d Dr Deborah Meister, ODM Today we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, a feast first proposed by St. Thomas Aquinas, who felt that Maundy Thursday was so tightly focused on the impending death of Christ that it would be helpful […]