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?”
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 Rev. David Brinton Our society is shot through with traces of the Roman Empire, not just physical remains in the form of ruins and artworks, but in our legal system and church organization, our
By Rev. David Brinton This evening we begin the celebration of the Christian Passover which will end at Evening Prayer on Sunday. In these sacred three days we celebrate the memorial of events which took place
By Sr. Elizabeth Ann, SSJD Are you familiar with the television game show, Jeopardy? Alex Trebek, born in Sudbury*, ON, was its host for 37 years until his death in 2020. In an interesting twist
By Rev. David Brinton OGS The meaning of Holy Week which begins today, is explained by St Paul in this way: “Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality
