You will find here the Sunday sermons. Each sermon is posted in English and in French.
Epiphany III January 26, 2025 Nehemiah 8:1-10 I Corinthians 12:12-31 Luke 4:14-21 Think about the first time you came across the Bible. Was it through a parent or relative? Was it in Sunday School? Was it in church? Was it at a secular school? Did you first think of the Bible as a book…
Epiphany II January 19, 2025 Isaiah 62:1-5 Ps 36:6-11 I Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11 Lack of wine can have dramatic consequences, as we well know at Saint-Esprit! I’m not talking about our receptions (I don’t think we’ve ever ran out of wine), but about what happened in 1919. At that time, supported by secular and…
Epiphany I | The Baptism of ChristJanuary 13, 2013Isaiah 43: 1-7 Acts 8 : 14-17 Luke 3 :15-17, 21-22 When I was first ordained, I used to baptize about four babies per month. I was serving in a poor parish in Birmingham, England when it was The Thing To Do to get your child baptized.…
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…