240616 Pentecost 4 year B 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13, 11:14-15- PSALM 20 – 2 Corinthians 5.6-17- Mark 4.26-34 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our strength and our redeemer. In the global world in which we live, life has become for the […]

240609 Pentecost 3 year B 1 Samuel 8:4-20, 11:14-15- PSALM 138 – 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1- Mark 3:20-35 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our strength and our redeemer. I have had the privilege of spending two weeks in Japan, part of […]

Ascension Sunday Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Eph 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53 Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who are in nurturing relationships with children! Like many women, I am not a mother, and so my godchildren are one of the unexpected gifts in my life. Getting to have a relationship […]

Easter 6 Acts 10:44-48 – PSALM 98 – 1 John 5:1-6- John 15:9-17 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector Alleluia, Christ is Risen! Christ is risen indeed, alleluia. Two weeks ago, the Dean of Coventry was with us here in Montreal, to renew a friendship made between our two cathedrals 70 years ago. […]

Great Vigil of Easter Rev. Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM We have heard so many stories tonight that it seems a bit foolish to offer you one more, but I’d like to share with you some words from the writer Loren Eisely. Eisely writes that one day, when he was hiking, he stopped to rest in […]

Palm Sunday The Venerable Ralph Leavitt, Honorary Associate Priest – do you get excited by Palm Sunday? Why? – is it the joy of the procession of palms with shouts of praise?                            Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord                            Hosanna in the highest – is it the thrill of […]

Clergy in the diocese were on retreat for two days at the beginning of the week, and we gathered with the Bishop for a period of silence which concluded with the renewal of our ordination vows and the blessing of the oils of healing and Chrism for the coming year. To aid our reflection, we […]

Third Sunday in Lent Exodus 20:1-17; Ps 19; 1 Cor 1:18-25; John 2: 13-22 The Rev’d Dr. Deborah Meister, ODM This week, a devastating scene unfolded in Gaza — one of so many others.  As conditions approached mass starvation, a large convoy of food trucks entered Gaza City. It was actually the second convoy; the […]

Lent 5 Jeremiah 31:31-34 – PSALM 119.9-16 – Hebrews 5:5-10 – John 12:20-33 The Very Rev’d Bertrand Oliver, Dean and Rector ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be Glorified’ It was obvious that something was afoot when some strangers from Greece, who were in Jerusalem at the time of the Passover, […]