Isaiah 4:2-6 Psalm 122 Matthew 8:5-13 Advent is upon us. It’s time to bring out the Nativity Scene, dust
Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21: 25-36 As I write this in August, our televisions are still bombarding us with visual clips of the horror of the
By Sr. Doreen, SSJD “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. They lived in a land of shadows, but now light is shining on them.” (Isaiah 9:2) This year I thought
By the Rev Joanne Davies, Oblate, SSJD. Next week in our faith year we will enter a season of deep quiet and reflection. A time of beginning and waiting. Today, like all endings, there is
Sister Doreen’s Reflections November Anglican Church Calendar Scripture: “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22 One of the first
By the Rev. David Brinton Gospel Reading: Mark 13:1-8 There are any number of global catastrophes and more personal tragedies that one could use to begin a homily on the theme of the end of
By the Rev. Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD. Deuteronomy 4.1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15James 1.17-27 Mark 7.1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Way back in the 1960s I was in graduate school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. I had
By the Rev. Joanne Davies, SSJD Oblate Do we speak to one another as we speak to God? What is Jesus asking us to do when he says, “Take up your cross and follow me?”
The Rev. Frances Drolet-Smith, Oblate SSJD In my first year in seminary at Huron College, we had a prescribed course that was dreaded by most of us: Philosophy of Religion taught by our Dean who,
Sister Doreen’s Reflections Last week’s reflection of a good and noble heart opened the door to thinking more deeply about the role of the heart in our experiences. Despite quantum physics and other fields, we
The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine is a contemporary expression of the religious life for women within the Anglican Church of Canada. We were founded in Toronto in 1884. Our Mother House, St. John’s Convent, continues to be in Toronto.
