All Saints, Dorval Palm Sunday, Year B March 24, 2024 The snack counter at Palm Saturday. One of the funny things about making Holy Week happen is that, alongside all the usual writing and meetings and email and paperwork that typically constitute my job, I also suddenly find myself making long lists of things. Pastry brushes. Candles. Towels. Speaker. Hard-boiled… View Post
Irene Lambert, 1925-2024
All Saints, Dorval Anne Irene Glen Lambert March 9, 2024 Irene Lambert was a bright light. From the first time I met her in 2018 in the house on Sainte-Marie, to when I said the prayers for the dying at her bedside in the Pavillon Camille-Lefebvre, to be in her presence was to be in the presence of joy and… View Post
Report to the Parish Meeting, March 2024
Incumbent’s Report, March 17, 2024 It’s been a busy six weeks since the Annual Vestry! We had a successful Pancake Supper and continued our unbroken streak of not setting anyone on fire while burning the palms for the Ash Wednesday ashes. Ash Wednesday services went well, and on the first two weekends in Lent we enrolled three candidates for baptism… View Post
God’s word goes forth
All Saints, Dorval Lent IV, Year B March 10, 2024 Study for “Jesus Visiting Nicodemus,” 1899, Henry Ossawa Tanner. Wikimedia Commons. We don’t talk enough about the Psalms. Every week in worship, we say a short portion of text drawn from this vast, ancient repository of prayer, praise, longing, celebration, despair, joy, terror, and hope. The Psalms are the sources… View Post
Traders in the house of the Lord
All Saints, Dorval Lent III, Year B March 3, 2024 I confess: I sometimes get really tired of refuting antisemitic and anti-Jewish interpretations of Scripture. Especially since I don’t actually think that anyone in this congregation necessarily thinks that the Jewish faith or the Jewish people is inferior in the first place. I would much rather talk about Paul’s idea… View Post
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