Homilies Blog

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

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,

By Archbishop Colin R. Johnson, given on September 8, 2024 at the SSJD Convent. +In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. What a joy to be

By the Rev. Joanne Davies, SSJD Oblate The days are evil … where is your joy? Can you find it within, to strengthen yourself, to redeem the day and to sit with God moment to

By the Rev. Joanne Davies, SSJD Oblate A woman clothed with the sun. One of my favourite places to “just be” is the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Los Angeles. Our Lady of the Angels. A

By the Rev Michael Burgess Jesus says, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15: 12). Jesus said a great many challenging things to his followers during

By Sister Kathryn, SSJD I speak these words in the faith that the Spirit will enable you to hear and glean some wisdom for your own journey. When I reflected in Lectio Divina on today’s