Well, here we are on Tuesday in Easter week, and though I know that Easter arrived on Sunday, somehow it feels like we’re still in an in-between place, more like Holy Saturday than the joyous, springlike, hope-filled Easters I remember from more than sixty years of life. I loved our...
Lent’s not just about giving stuff up! It’s an opportunity to exercise our prayer muscles. Amy Hamilton has enlisted expert speakers for this year’s Lenten Series on Monday evenings, “Teach Us To Pray”. Come to Cathedral Place for a robust soup at 6:30 and this Lenten Course at 7. (Please sign...
When I first realized that my family’s move would require me to leave Christ Church Cathedral in the middle of Lent, I was both personally and liturgically disappointed. Personally, I was sorry to miss the Cathedral’s beautiful Holy Week and Easter services by just a few weeks (although I am...
It is Lent. We prepare for Christ’s death and resurrection by turning to God in fasting, in prayer, and in acts of generosity. Let us set aside things that distract us from what is good and holy in God’s sight. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Let us...
For Lent this year, SJAG (the Cathedral’s Social Justice Action Group) proposes we select one of the 94 recommendations put forward by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in their final report in 2015. They have winnowed these down to 10 possibilities… and invite you to vote on Sunday or to take part in...
As we get ready for Candlemas and pancakes, we pack away our Alleluias until Easter and, our Christmas decorations until next year. Maybe your collection of ornaments, like mine, includes some that have been broken and mended more than once. They still have sentimental value. But sometimes the thing is really beyond...
[Beth Adams’ introduction to Contemplative Prayer on April 14, 2015] During Lent we’ve been hearing advice and wisdom from important teachers of contemplation, and I plan to continue with that, but today I’d like to talk about learning from real life: the great teacher who is available to us all...
Palm Sunday and Holy Week invite us to close the screen and join the community of faith in person. To discover new meanings in the scriptures, the liturgies, the learnings, the silences, the music. Here is a series of paintings of the Passion by Italian artist Carla Carli Mazzucato and...
There is a lot of church in Holy Week. In March’s Porous Church column on the Anglican Journal website, I offer one reason for why it’s worth it – and why you should bring your kids to some of it, too.
Starting this Sunday (March 22 in 2015), the season of Passiontide invites us to deepen our contemplation of suffering and the way God’s power is hidden from us. The veils now hanging over crosses and holy images in the Cathedral offer a visible reminder of this hiddenness. One has only to...
This week Laetare Sunday reminds us to be joyful in the midst of this season in which we walk with Jesus towards death and new life. Ponder this parable from Mark 4:30-32 (français ici) comparing the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed. What is nourishing your soul this Lent?...
Take a moment to contemplate Jan Richardson’s moving essay and poem, “The Terrible, Marvellous Dust,” and connect with the start of Lent and with the Cathedral’s Lenten Carbon Fast (links here).