Advent 2 Mal 3:1-4; Benedictus Phil 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6a The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister YouTube recording of the service – sermon begins at 24:49 Retournez à Montreal! Retournez à Montreal! Go back to Montreal! Go back to Montreal! Those words broke my heart this week when I heard them on my car radio.  They were part […]

Advent 1 Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal YouTube recording of the service – Vivian’s sermon starts at 23:40 Happy New Year, my friends. Perhaps you were downtown yesterday. If you were, you would have seen a lot of people shopping. A handful of us were in this building for a Quiet Day, […]

Remembrance – 14 November 2021 Daniel 12:1-3; Ps 16; Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25, Mark 13:1-8 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver YouTube recording of the service – Bertrand’s sermon starts around 23:00 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the […]

The Twenty Fourth Sunday After Pentecost The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest YouTube recording of the service –Ralph ’s sermon starts at 19:40 This morning I want to talk about perhaps the most famous prayer in the Anglican Church. And that is the Collect we just prayed. Eternal God, who caused all holy scriptures to be […]

All Saints Sunday Wis 3:1-9; Ps 24 Rev 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister YouTube recording of the service. The sermon begins around 29:00 One hundred three years ago, a child was born into conditions of great injustice. Although he was living in his own land, his people knew no freedom. The boy grew, […]

Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal YouTube recording of the service. The sermon begins at  18:30… I need to tell you, my friends, before I get into the nitty gritty of this sermon, that I’m a member of the Cathedral’s Stewardship Committee. This is not, strictly speaking, […]

Thanksgiving Joel 2:21-27; Ps 126; 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Matthew 6:25-33 ‘But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.’ The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver There is a real sense of joyfulness and of celebration with the first hymn we sang – ‘Come, […]

Feast of St. Francis Jeremiah 22: 13-16; Ps 148:7-18,Gal 6:14-18;  Matt 11:25-30 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages. (Jer 22:13) I first met St. Francis in the […]

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Vivian Lewin, Spiritual Director in the Diocese of Montreal One of the things I wrestle with in church life is the astounding number of different jobs that clamour to be done.  Just Friday… fresh in memory… is needing to choose between the funeral of a former churchwarden with whom for […]

Pentecost 16 Isaiah 50.4-9a; Ps 34.1-8; James 3.1-12, Mark 8.27-38 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal I am so delighted to see so many of you here in the cathedral, as well as online, as we join together in this ‘Back to the Cathedral’ Sunday. There has been […]

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 35:4-7a;  Psalm 146 James 2: 1-17; Mark 7:24-37 Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister This has not been a good week for people from the East Coast of the United States.  Thursday morning, even before my prayers, I sent an e-mail to my family who live in New York City, asking them to […]

The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost James 1:17-27 The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest For the next five weeks the Epistle readings are from the Book of James, so today I want to introduce you to this Epistle, encourage you to read through the Book of James, and particularly speak about “doing the word of […]