Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Luke  11: 1-13 The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest How do you approach the Lord’s Prayer? The most well known Christian prayer around the world. The fact that it is so well known, written on our hearts so to speak, is a tremendous blessing. However, being so familiar can be […]

The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 18:1-10a – Psalm 15 – Colossians 1:15-28 – Luke 10:38-42 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her’ It’s good to be back after a few weeks away. As some of you will know, I […]

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Deut 30:9-14; Ps 25:1-9; Col 1:1-14; Luke 10: 25-37 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister “Lord, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.”   The words of St. Augustine, written in the years just before 400, echoed today in our collect. To me, […]

The Homily by Ms Ranee Lee, CM at the Jazz Vespers service on Sunday, July 3, 2022: Holy Ground: Encountering God in the City Psalm 57 Verse 7 My Heart, Oh God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast, I will sing and make Music! Music is a Universal Language. It has the unique ability to […]

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Michel Gagnon, lay reader Jesus tells us how to spread the Good News: with simplicity and humility, with our own self and our actions. And it is quite relevant today, because God is with us and sustains us. So what are we waiting for?

Third Sunday after Pentecost I Kings 19:15-16, 19-21; Ps 16, Gal 5: 1, 13-25; Luke 9: 51-62 The Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister Friday was an extraordinary day for me, as a citizen of the United States. When I woke, I was legally a human being.  A few hours later, however, I had fewer rights in […]

Easter 4 7/5/22 Acts 9.36-43 – Psalm 23 – Rev 7.9-17 – John 10:22-30 I have had the privilege and joy to attend the North American Deans conference in Sacramento, California, last weekend, the first time my colleagues and I were able to meet together since our last meeting in early May 2019.  Our last […]

Easter 3 Acts 9:1-20; Psalm 30 Rev 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM Last week, the church remembered Catherine of Sienna, a fourteenth-century saint with a wild story. The youngest of 25 children, Catherine had a vision of Jesus when she was six years old and embraced a life of fasting and prayer. […]

Easter 17 April 2022 Isaiah 65:17-25 – Psalm 118:1-2, 19-24  – Acts 10: 34-43 – John 20:1-18 “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Alleluia, Christ is risen!  He is risen indeed, Alleluia. Is it not surprising that the passage in St John’s […]

Good Friday, 2022  The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister Early in Lent, I went on retreat to my favorite monastery, a spiritual home I have visited for more than twenty years. In their stark white chapel, there are two immense crucifixes. Above the altar, there hangs an icon cross, about seven feet tall. In the center, […]

Palm Sunday 2022 Luke 19:28-40; Phil 2:5-11 Psalm 31:9-16; Luke 22:14-23:56 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM Each year, it gets harder for me to hear the Passion read. When I was younger, I was able to situate it historically: as something that had happened at the time of Jesus, as something which happened from time […]

3 April 2022 – Lent 5 Isaiah 43.16-21 – Ps 126 – Philippians 3.4b-14 – John 12.1-8 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal ‘You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me’. The world has continued to provide its share of depressing news, […]