All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Advent II, Year A December 7, 2025 The cover art of Leonard Cohen’s The Flame The theme of my preaching this year seems to be “things I never noticed before despite reading the Bible regularly for forty years.” This week, it’s the weirdness of John the Baptist being here at all. Not the weirdness of… View Post
Advent and the big transitions
All Saints’, Dorval Advent I, Year A November 30, 2025 Late fourteenth-century ivory from the Met, depicting the Nativity and Crucifixion. Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. If the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed… View Post
Report to the Parish Meeting, November 2025
Incumbent’s Report, November 23, 2025 Bishop Victor-David in Fulford Hall as the procession formed up for his installation, Oct. 5. It’s been eight weeks since my last report, and a great deal has happened! First and foremost, of course, on the first weekend in October the clergy, Lay Readers and Synod delegates basically lived at the Cathedral: on Friday evening… View Post
The Executed King
All Saints, Dorval Reign of Christ, Year C November 23, 2025 May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. As it sometimes… View Post
Shaken, or not?
All Saints by the Lake Proper 32, Year C November 9, 2025 The prophet Haggai (James Tissot) As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from… View Post
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