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Judas in the in-between time

in Sermons on 05/14/24

All Saints’, Dorval Easter VII, Year B May 12, 2024 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, March 2013. Photo (and set and lighting design) by Matt Kizer. Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry… View Post

Report to the Parish Meeting, April 2024

in Blog on 05/01/24

Incumbent’s Report, April 28, 2024 The Maundy Thursday dinner The last six weeks at All Saints’ by the Lake have been extraordinarily rich and full. The second half of March was, of course, pretty much entirely devoted to preparations for Holy Week and then Holy Week itself. Palm Saturday, held amid heavy snow on the morning of March 23, was… View Post

Abiding together

in Sermons on 04/30/24

All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year B April 28, 2024 The people of St. Porphyrios’ Orthodox Church in Gaza, working on their palms last week Last week at the “You are Leaven” conference in Mississauga, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch kept popping up. In the first workshop I attended, on “embodied Bible study,” I found myself… View Post

Change – wonderful and challenging

in Sermons on 04/17/24

All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year B April 14, 2024 Approximately one-tenth of the Messy Church crowd from Friday. Today’s reading from Acts is really just the second part of the story. It’s the apostle Peter’s sermon to the crowds that gather at the entrance of the Jerusalem Temple, in the aftermath of Peter’s healing of a man who had… View Post