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Mark your calendars! Join Bishop Riscylla Shaw as she leads this year’s in-person Advent Quiet Day on November 26, 2022. The Quiet Day theme, registration form and other details will be posted closer to the
Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. O the magnitude of meekness! (Christopher Smart) Just a reminder: Blessed, what does Jesus intend by using this paradoxical word? In trying
NOTE: This is not an SSJD Event. It is a course offered through the Toronto School of Theology. For further information, contact Sr. Constance Joanna at cj@ssjd.ca
Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. In the deserts of the heart,Let the healing fountain start.(WH Auden – in Memory of WB Yeats) Just a reminder: Blessed, what
Sr. Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who have nothing to lock up. (Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment) Anthony Bloom commenting on this Beatitude
Sister Doreen’s Reflections The beatitudes really introduce and set the tone for Jesus’ sermon on the mount. Richard Rohr calls the beatitudes Jesus’ inaugural address, defining a new covenant with all humankind, a manifesto revealing
Sister Doreen’s Reflections One of the main purposes of all meditation practices is to take a brief vacation from ourselves! I share some quotes and ideas that might be helps along the way in growing
Sister Doreen’s Reflections Living as Contemplatives in the world: Centering / Contemplative Prayer Prayer, real prayer, real contemplation happens when our hearts are open to God in all the colours of the world. It is
By Rev. Joanne Davies Jesus, consume me with Your love as I consume You. “O my God, come to me, so that You may dwell in me and I dwell in You.” (~ St. John
Sister Doreen’s reflections I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day A Poem by E.E. Cummings I thank you God for most this amazing dayFor the leaping greenly spirits of treesAnd the blue true
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.