Thoughts from a Canadian Vicar
If you happen to be a Saint and you happen to die or get killed in a Leap year on February 29th - I guess you only get celebrated every four years! Ok - Not really -- your date is moved to February 28th. Since this is a Leap year I thought it would be... Continue Reading →
Hope, is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson In today's Gospel at church we hear the story of the Fig Tree. It is a short parable offered to a people who have have seen the murder of Galileans... Continue Reading →
Today the Church celebrates the life of poet, priest, and writer George Herbert. While at Huron University College in the mid nineties, I read the Country Parson for the first time. It was a formative book for me when I read it over twenty years ago. I revisited it tonight for the first time is some time...He... Continue Reading →
We as individuals suffer incalculable harm when we are unwilling to forgive. We hold ourselves captives, suffering in our own cell of envy and hate. It is a soul-sucking place to reside.
My friend Joe sent my a great Sunday Opinion piece from the New York Times. - It's titled Gadsden Finds God. It is the story of what can happen when people put energy, effort, care, and love into the most vulnerable. It is story of small gains that lead to life changing gains. The piece... Continue Reading →
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what... Continue Reading →
So Polycarp is celebrated by the church today. Not yesterday. Did any of you catch that? Was one of those days. Where I was reading my computer screen with my eyes crossed. This resulted in seeing Polycarp underneath the daily office readings for Monday. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! But in... Continue Reading →
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity. Polycarp Freedom from anger, and patient endurance.... Continue Reading →
DignityWe give dignity to each other by the way we listen to each other, in a spirit of trust and dying to oneself so that the other may live, grow and give. Jean Vanier, From Brokenness to Community, p.36 Listening! That's big! Listening is how we offer dignity to another. How are your listening skills?... Continue Reading →
1 Corinthians 4:1-7 The Ministry of the Apostles Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human... Continue Reading →
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