Candlemas Malachi 3:1-4 – PSALM 84 – Acts 8:14-17 – Luke 2.22-40 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector Why do we go to church? Perhaps a bold question to start our worship today as we celebrate the Presentation of Christ in the Temple by his mother Mary. (and as we are about to […]

Second Sunday after Epiphany Isaiah 62:1-5; Ps 36:5-10; I Cor 12:1-11; John 2: 1-11 Rev’d Dr Deborah Meister, ODM For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. (Isaiah 62:5) Today’s Gospel beings us […]

Baptism of Christ Isaiah 43:1-7 – PSALM 29 – Acts 8:14-17 – Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the […]

Christmas  2024 Isaiah 9:2-7; Ps 96 Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM “And Mary gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger.” (Luke 2:7) And after all that, does it matter? Is what we have heard something real, something to […]

Advent 1 Jer 33: 14-16; Ps 25:1-9; 1 Thess 3:9-13; Luke 21: 25-36 The Rev’d Dr Deborah Meister, ODM “Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us […]

Christ the King The Rev’d Jen Bourque

All Saints Sunday Wisdom 3:1-9; Psalm 24; Rev 21:1-6a; John 11:32-34 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM In 1941, a young Dutchwoman named Etty Hillesum began to write a journal, probably at the prompting of her therapist. During the next two years, Etty’s interior life became increasingly deep and rich, even as her external life […]

St Michael and All Angels Genèse 28.10-17 – Psaume 103.19-22 – Apocalypse 12.7-12- Jean 1.47-51 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!’ Bishop Francis Fulford, the first Anglican Bishop of Montreal, loved angels. […]

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proverbs 31:10-31, James 3:13-4:3,7-8a, Mark 9:30-37 The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest Today I feel that two of our readings are wonderfully linked together. In James we are given an explanation of what wisdom is, and in our Gospel, Jesus’ actions show us wisdom at work. Then there is the […]

240915 Pentecost 17 year B – Baptism Trevor and Lukus Proverbs 1.20-33 – PSALM 19 – James 3:1-12 – Mark 8.27-38 With the whole church around the globe, members of the Cathedral have been connecting with the Season of Creation, a particular period of the year which runs from the beginning of September to St […]