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Report to the Parish Meeting, March 2024

in Blog on 03/20/24

Incumbent’s Report, March 17, 2024 It’s been a busy six weeks since the Annual Vestry! We had a successful Pancake Supper and continued our unbroken streak of not setting anyone on fire while burning the palms for the Ash Wednesday ashes. Ash Wednesday services went well, and on the first two weekends in Lent we enrolled three candidates for baptism… View Post

God’s word goes forth

in Uncategorized on 03/14/24

All Saints, Dorval Lent IV, Year B March 10, 2024 Study for “Jesus Visiting Nicodemus,” 1899, Henry Ossawa Tanner. Wikimedia Commons. We don’t talk enough about the Psalms. Every week in worship, we say a short portion of text drawn from this vast, ancient repository of prayer, praise, longing, celebration, despair, joy, terror, and hope. The Psalms are the sources… View Post

Traders in the house of the Lord

in Sermons on 03/05/24

All Saints, Dorval Lent III, Year B March 3, 2024 I confess: I sometimes get really tired of refuting antisemitic and anti-Jewish interpretations of Scripture. Especially since I don’t actually think that anyone in this congregation necessarily thinks that the Jewish faith or the Jewish people is inferior in the first place. I would much rather talk about Paul’s idea… View Post

The unanswerable questions

in Sermons on 02/21/24

All Saints, Dorval Lent I, Year B February 18, 2024 The Confirmation & Reception class of 2022 Every year in the lectionary, the yearly cycle of scripture readings in worship, we get some version of the story of John the Baptist three times. First in Advent, when John is the herald of the coming Kingdom of God; then on the… View Post