All Saints’, Dorval Lent I, Year C March 9, 2025 Grant, Almighty God, that your people may recognize their weakness and put their whole trust in your strength, so that they may rejoice forever in the protection of your loving providence; through Christ our Lord. Amen. This is the Lenten prayer over the people, which I will say at… View Post
Ash Wednesday is what you make of it
All Saints’, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year C March 5, 2025 For some reason, growing up, my family, which was otherwise incredibly churchy, did not do Ash Wednesday. We made a big splash at the parish Mardi Gras party the previous night, and we certainly marked the day by beginning our hard-core fast from sweets and desserts, but we never went… View Post
God in the darkness
All Saints’, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year C March 2, 2025 Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Moses on Mount Sinai,” c. 1897. A month ago, I led All Saints’ second annual midwinter retreat. The theme was “Holy Darkness,” and we looked at the ways that light and darkness have been correlated with good and evil, respectively, in the Bible and in how the Bible… View Post
Emptiness, one way or another
All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany VI, Year C February 16, 2025 Ben Wildflower, “Magnificat” Here’s a dirty secret about preaching: Very frequently, a preacher will spend all week carefully, thoughtfully preparing a sermon on the assigned readings, and then, while reading the Gospel or preaching the actual sermon on Sunday, will have a flash of insight about something completely different in… View Post
What to do with the fear
All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany V (Annual Vestry) February 9, 2025 “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” This phrase – “do not be afraid” – is a very common one in Scripture, often uttered by angels, such as the one inviting Mary to become the mother of God’s son. But in today’s reading, it’s Jesus… View Post
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