All Saints’, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year C March 2, 2025 Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Moses on Mount Sinai,” c. 1897. A month ago, I led All Saints’ second annual midwinter retreat. The theme was “Holy Darkness,” and we looked at the ways that light and darkness have been correlated with good and evil, respectively, in the Bible and in how the Bible… View Post
Emptiness, one way or another
All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany VI, Year C February 16, 2025 Ben Wildflower, “Magnificat” Here’s a dirty secret about preaching: Very frequently, a preacher will spend all week carefully, thoughtfully preparing a sermon on the assigned readings, and then, while reading the Gospel or preaching the actual sermon on Sunday, will have a flash of insight about something completely different in… View Post
What to do with the fear
All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany V (Annual Vestry) February 9, 2025 “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” This phrase – “do not be afraid” – is a very common one in Scripture, often uttered by angels, such as the one inviting Mary to become the mother of God’s son. But in today’s reading, it’s Jesus… View Post
A sign that will be opposed
All Saints’, Dorval Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) February 2, 2025 [sing] This child must be born so the kingdom may come; salvation for many, destruction for some: both end and beginning, both message and sign, both victor and victim, both yours and divine. We sang this hymn from the new Sing a New Creation hymnal back in… View Post
Through fire and water
All Saints’, Dorval Baptism of the Lord, Year C January 12, 2025 The “Super Scooper” (from Montreal!) in action above LA Sometimes it seems like the lectionary is brutally ironic, and this is one of those weeks. “His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff… View Post
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