Suhail

Homily: Creation and the Trinity: Scooch Over and Make Space

Creation and the Trinity: Scooch Over and Make Space

Matte Downey gives a homily from Genesis 1:1-2:4a. She recently released a book called Go Wide.

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Homily: Eternal Life is a Person

Eternal Life is a Person

Suhail Stephen gives a homily from John 17:1-11.

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Schedule: Spring to Summer, 2023

Our Spring to Summer Sunday schedule is here!

This season, we are experimenting with a few new things. “Gospel Play” is a way of engaging Scripture in the vein of Godly Play. It emphasizes creativity and the imagination in spiritual formation, and is founded on the principles of Montessori. It is primarily intended to nourish children in their experience of God, but tends to be equally enriching for adults alike.

“Learning to Pray” will focus on various prayer practices. This season, in tandem with our regular practice, we will further envision the theology and practice of praying for healing.

Our “Church Meeting” is essentially the equivalent of an Annual General Meeting – a requisite of all charities (including churches) operating in Canada.

Homily: The Big Black Fish and the Little Sea Horse

The Big Black and the Little Sea Horse (Easter Sunday)

Suhail Stephen gives a homily based on the Resurrection.

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Homily: Triumphal Entry

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, 1497. Found in the collection of the State Open-air Museum Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.

Jesus and the Man Blind from Birth (Lent 4)

Doug Houlbrook gives the homily from Matthew 21:1-11.

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Holy Week Services

What a sacred mystery this next week is in the arc of the Gospel and the life of the Church! It was Jesus’ deep desire to have his friends be awake, attentive, and alongside him in his agonizing journey to the cross. This desire forms the bedrock of God’s invitation to us every Holy Week week, and we invite you to join us as we seek to companion Jesus from the upper room (his last supper), to Golgotha (the place of the skull, where he was crucified), to resurrection.

These events – known as the “Pascal/Easter/Holy Triduum” (the three days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday) are the fulcrum of the entire Gospel, with immeasurable theological and spiritual significance. The Triduum not only represents a fullness of what God did in our story, but also provides an incomparable window into the stunning beauty of who God is. What kind of God is this – one who washes our feet, shares his body and blood, suffers and dies on a cross between thieves, and is resurrected? These are the sacred mysteries we desire to contemplate, embody, and experience this week – and we ask God for this grace.