SERMON—18 October 2015—The Work of an Evangelist Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today, we honour and remember St. Luke: evangelist, storyteller, disciple, martyr and physician. We know him, of course, because of the gospel he wrote, but also as the author of the Acts of the Apostles, […]

A sermon preached at the 10 service by the Rt Rev’d James Almasi, Bishop of our partner Diocese of Masasi in Tanzania.

Mark 10:17-31 Thanksgiving 2015   At first glance, we seem to have been given a rather odd Gospel for Thanksgiving weekend – a reading that warns against plenty it for a weekend that celebrates it. Not that Thanksgiving is about crass rejoicing in our wealth – I do understand that it is about giving thanks […]

SERMON—4 OCTOBER 2015 Glory to God, Source of all being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit. Amen. I will admit that, when I looked at them, the readings for today made me slightly uneasy. That, of course, may not come as a total surprise to some of you. Do I really want to talk about marriage, […]

Jesus took a little child in his arms and said – whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me …. May I speak in the name of ….. That’s quite a good verse for a baptism Sunday – here we are welcoming children – Ayrton, Jasmine and Nathan – and all in Christ’s […]

The Venerable Bill Gray is the Executive Archdeacon of the Diocese of Montreal

There are weeks when the challenge of preaching lies in the abundance of important things to say; weeks when it is important to remember that no one can say everything every time – at least not in the amount of time traditionally allotted to a sermon here in this church. As a result, I am […]

‘Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war’ sang the midwife as she pushed my mother into the room where she would give birth to me. Marching as to war, however, is not an image we like to use any more – there have been too many Christians marching to war over the ages, and there […]

SERMON—Pentecost 12—Such a Queer Thing In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, one God now and forever. Amen. Queer: strange, odd, curious, unusual, peculiar, transgressive, subversive. Christianity is such a queer thing. Consider the evidence. A god takes on human flesh. A virgin gives birth. A saviour triumphs by being humiliated and made […]

Whoever comes to me will never hunger, whoever believes in me will never thirst. It’s not that hard to feed people.  All it takes is food – Jesus proved that when he took five loaves and fed the crowd of 5000 – and we have so much more than only five loaves in this world […]