All Saints’, Dorval Great Vigil of Easter, Year A April 4, 2026 Russian icon of the Anastasis, c. 1700, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht. Wikimedia Commons. As you know if you were here on the third Sunday of Advent, I am not a fan of AI, at least not the “large language models” that power apps like Claude and ChatGPT and which… View Post
What does confession have to do with Good Friday?
All Saints’, Dorval Good Friday, Year A April 3, 2026 Christ and the Penitent Thief, Kerkerkapelle, Bad Tölz, Kalvarienberg. Wikimedia Commons. For the past few months, I’ve been working with a couple of other clergy on a new catechism for the Anglican Church of Canada. A catechism is a list of questions and answers about the church’s beliefs, designed to… View Post
Complete simplicity
All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Maundy Thursday, Year A April 2, 2026 St. John’s, Little Gidding In Holy Week, I always find myself returning to T. S. Eliot. On this Maundy Thursday, specifically to the line from “Little Gidding”: “A condition of complete simplicity (costing not less than everything)”. When Jesus rises from the table to wash his disciples’… View Post
Encountering the Messiah
All Saints’, Dorval Lent IV, Year A March 15, 2026 “Christ and the Pauper”, Andrei Mironov Today’s Gospel reading is the third of four very long selections from the Gospel of John. They come from the third, fourth, ninth and eleventh chapters respectively, but they are clearly written to echo and interact with each other: key words and themes keep… View Post
Daughter Samaria
All Saints’, Dorval Lent III, Year A March 8, 2026 Icon of St. Photini, St. Michael’s Orthodox Church, Cleveland, OH When I was a teenager, my spirituality was focused strongly, not to say obsessively, on the image of the holy city in the prophets. As a girl emerging into adulthood, I found “daughter Zion” a tremendously compelling and relatable character. … View Post
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