All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 25, Year C September 18, 2022 The prophet Jeremiah, from the Sistine Chapel My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. … O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain… View Post
The Strategic Plan is dead, long live the Strategic Plan
Newsletter, Autumn 2022 Can you spot the difference in this photo of the nave? Happy Fall, everybody! It was a joy to welcome everyone back to the Blessing of the Backpacks and the annual BBQ on September 11. And as I type this, the electricians are in the nave raising the light fixtures, which will not only improve our sightlines… View Post
Who are the lost?
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 24, Year C September 11, 2022 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev’d Justin Welby Who are the lost ones? Are they the tax collectors and sinners, the ones coming near to listen to Jesus because he was the only one who didn’t tell them they were beyond… View Post
The found family of God
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 23, Year C September 4, 2022 The farmhouse in New Hampshire. Sometime in the middle of next month, I will have lived in my current apartment for longer than I have ever lived at any one address since I left home for university in the late summer of 1996. It still boggles my… View Post
Cracked cisterns, new wineskins, and seats of honour
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 22, Year C August 28, 2022 Promotional poster for “Le guide de la famille parfaite” My mother, born at the height of the Baby Boom in 1950, was not raised in the church. Her father was in the US Foreign Service, and his last posting abroad was to London, beginning when my mother… View Post
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