All Saints’, Dorval Easter Sunday, Year B April 4, 2021 Photo by Dion Lewis from the 10 AM service this morning At the Lamb’s high feast we sing praise to our victorious King, who hath washed us in the tide flowing from his pierced side; praise we him, whose love divine gives his sacred blood for wine, gives his body… View Post
Judas’ guilt and ours
All Saints’, Dorval Good Friday, Year B April 2, 2021 Rembrandt, “Judas Repentant” I’ve been thinking about guilt a lot this Holy Week, and about Judas, who betrayed Jesus. Where do we put the guilt for Jesus’ suffering and death – on Judas alone? On the Roman rulers? On the bloodthirsty crowds? On the abstract concept of human sin? On… View Post
The work of caring
All Saints, Dorval Maundy Thursday, Year B April 1, 2021 Staff prepare a room in the intensive care ward at Enfant-Jésus hospital in Quebec City. (Photo: Radio-Canada) On Sunday, we heard Mark’s account of the anonymous woman who anointed Jesus with perfume in Bethany before his crucifixion. In John’s gospel, the woman is named as Mary, the sister of Martha… View Post
In remembrance of her
All Saints, Dorval Palm Sunday, Year B March 28, 2021 Lauren Wright Pittman, “Anointed“, 2018. While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on… View Post
Serpents, hurt, and healing
All Saints, Dorval Lent IV, Year B March 14, 2021 Contemporary sculpture, “The Serpent Cross” on Mt. Nebo, Israel Miriam’s Daughter, 1500 BCE It feels like a dead end. We’ve been walking in circles in the wilderness for forty years – for literally my whole life. My uncle Aaron has just died – struck dead by God because… View Post
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