By The Most Rev’d Colin R. Johnson Convent Chapel of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, Feast of St. John in Eastertide, May 6, 2025 It is an honour for me to receive the
St. Theodore of Canterbury, May 4, 2025Sr. Constance Joanna, SSJD John 21.1-19: “Do you love me? Feed my sheep” What do you see at the front of the church when you first walk in? What
By Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert, SSJD Joshua 5.9-12, Psalm 322 Corinthians 5.16-21, Luke 15.1-3, 11b-32 The gospel this morning is so familiar that it’s easy to gloss over it and say to ourselves, yes, I
by Sr. Constance Joanna Gefvert, SSJDIsaiah 55.1-9, Ps 63.1-81 Corinthians 10.1-13, Luke 13.1-9 From Amnesty International Every Friday the Dean of Divinity at Trinity, Chris Brittain, emails a reflection to students and faculty. I had
By Archbishop Fred Hiltz Christ Crucified (c 1632) by Diego Velazquez Reflecting on the Gospel appointed for today, I found myself reaching for a book titled I Have Called You Friends, Reflections on Reconciliation in
By the Rev David Brinton “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb”. Those words of St Elizabeth to Our Lady in today’s gospel are probably among the most familiar
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?”