Christmas I December 29,2024 Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-4:7 John 1:1-10 There are many traditions surrounding Christmas which have to do with flowers and foliage. We probably know about most of them – our traditional Christmas trees and wreaths for example, but there are many others also, from all around the world. We sing Christmas carols…
Midnight Mass – Baptism of Michelle Smith December 24th, 2024 If you are watching us today, live or in replay, it is somehow thanks to the dark period of the pandemic. When we couldn’t gather in the flesh, the church decided to develop its virtual presence. We were able to do so thanks to many…
ADVENT IV | December 22nd, 2024 Micah 5:2-5a Hebrews 10:5-10 Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) Canticle 15 (or 3) Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent, and it has been a long season of Advent waiting and hoping. We are so close to Christmas that we can hardly wait for Jesus to be born, and we probably…
December 17, 2024 It must have been quite a year to live in Paris! Together with the usual round of yearly events, the city hosted the Olympic games for the first time in one hundred years, and earlier this month, the reopening of the gothic cathedral of Notre Dame. The rebirth of that cathedral certainly…
Advent IIDecember 2, 2024Baruch 5:1-9, Philippians 1:3-11, Luke 3:1-6 How are you? I think we’re pretty patient people here? What do you think? Our 11:15am services, for example, would be quite early if they actually started at 11:15. But everyone waits patiently, and during this wait before the service, we take the opportunity to chat,…
Harvest Thanksgiving / Christ the King November 24, 2024 II Samuel 23:1-7 Revelation 1:4-8 John 18:33-37 Our readings today are not the readings set for Thanksgiving. They are the readings set or the last Sunday in the season of Pentecost: the feast of Christ the King. The feast day of Christ the King was introduced…
Pentecost XXVI November 17, 2024 : 1 Sam 1:4-20; 1 Sam 2:1-10; He 10:11-25; Mark 13:1-8 Some recent biotechnological developments aimed at “improving” or “repairing” humans via, for example, brain implants, DNA modifications or drugs to increase our intellectual capacity, raise legitimate concerns. Access to these technologies could reinforce social inequalities or compromise individual freedom…
Pentecost XXVNovember 10, 2024Ruth 3:1-17 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 The story of the widow who put her last pennies into the temple collection plate is a Sunday school favorite – and a favorite with preachers when it comes to asking for money! The moral of the tale in these contexts is usually quite simple: It…
The Feast of All SaintsNovember 3rd, 2024Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9 Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 In the West, interest in the paranormal, such as ghosts and vampires, grew with the secularization of societies in the 18th century. It was at this time that Dracula and spiritualism took off. Today, these phenomena and creatures entertain…
Les textes du jour parlent de vision. Comment on se voit, comment on voit Dieu, comment on pense que Dieu nous voit. Nous avons en parallèle, la fin du récit du calvaire de Job et la guérison de Bartimée à Jéricho. Jésus est aux portes de la ville avec une foule qui se fait et…