clergy reflection

Sun shining through a huge three with golden leaves in a cemetery

Se préparer à la mort

C’est un peu un cliché de dire que nous vivons dans une culture qui nie la mort. Le contraire, c’est-à-dire la conscience de la mort, ...
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The blessing of thanksgiving

During this fall season my thoughts keep coming back to gratitude and blessings, particularly as we celebrate Thanksgiving in October reading a familiar passage of ...
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Book and other elements of church carried into the forest.

Creating church in the forest

There is something sacred, imperfect and beautiful when you take church into the forest. To walk along a path with a group of people, who ...
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Embroidered Pentecost dove

Listening to and following the Holy Spirit

In what the Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink, principal of Montreal Dio College, calls this time of polycrisis, we are still called to rejoice in the ...
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close view of The Thinker statue by August Rodin

Qui suis-je ?

À la fin de mon adolescence, j’ai participé à un programme d’été organisé par l’Ordre of the Holy Cross, la Society of St John the ...
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Le Symbole de Nicée : l’unité dans la diversité

À l’occasion du 1700e  anniversaire du concile de Nicée qui a lieu cette année, j’ai tenté dans mon dernier article de rendre compte de la ...
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Pussy willow branches in the spring sunshine.

Where does our help come from?

Probably the hardest part of a clergy person’s job is dealing with death. Through the many joys of ministry, we never know when death and ...
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Nativity window from St. Bartholomew's Ottawa

Waiting for the light that shines in the darkness

Susan Wojciechowski’s book The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is about a lonely, brooding wood carver, haunted by the loss of his wife and child. ...
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Cover of Joan Chittister's book "The Gift of the Years"

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

By The Ven. Peter Crosby Some books read like a good visit with a trusted soul friend. The Gift of Years, Growing Old Gracefully by ...
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