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Rex Buckland, 1940-2020

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All Saints’, Dorval Rex A. J. Buckland Revelation 21:1-7; John 14:1-6a April 18, 2021 Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” Rex Buckland was in many ways very private person, but he told the world… View Post

Bread and fish

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year B April 18, 2021 The point in Lac St-Louis where I saw the fire A couple of days after Easter, I was preparing lunch for myself. Rummaging in the fridge, I found a piece of leftover salmon from a previous dinner, and I heated that up along with a piece of the simple free-form… View Post

The Lamb’s high feast

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter Sunday, Year B April 4, 2021 Photo by Dion Lewis from the 10 AM service this morning At the Lamb’s high feast we sing praise to our victorious King, who hath washed us in the tide flowing from his pierced side; praise we him, whose love divine gives his sacred blood for wine, gives his body… View Post

Judas’ guilt and ours

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All Saints’, Dorval Good Friday, Year B April 2, 2021 Rembrandt, “Judas Repentant” I’ve been thinking about guilt a lot this Holy Week, and about Judas, who betrayed Jesus. Where do we put the guilt for Jesus’ suffering and death – on Judas alone? On the Roman rulers? On the bloodthirsty crowds? On the abstract concept of human sin? On… View Post

The work of caring

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All Saints, Dorval Maundy Thursday, Year B April 1, 2021 Staff prepare a room in the intensive care ward at Enfant-Jésus hospital in Quebec City. (Photo: Radio-Canada) On Sunday, we heard Mark’s account of the anonymous woman who anointed Jesus with perfume in Bethany before his crucifixion. In John’s gospel, the woman is named as Mary, the sister of Martha… View Post