Category: Homilies & Reflections

  • Authority: the controversy of the ages

    Matthew 21:23-27 (also Mark 11:27-33 and Luke 20:1-8) Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?” But Jesus answered and said to them, “I also will ask…

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  • The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want

    by Canon Jim House Psalm 23:1 encourages us. We all want things: most of us have had a lot of wants and needs; but if the Lord is to be a shepherd to you, you cannot have wants.  We must tell ourselves, “Self, stop wanting, stop desiring, stop needing.”  We’re like little children: “Papa, papa,…

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  • A door has opened to the Church

    In the United States, we were told in March that we all needed to do was “stay home and stay safe.”  Even though the number of COVID 19 cases were few and the percentage of deaths were small, we were warned that this “invisible” virus was increasing quickly. So, unless we listened to infectious disease…

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  • The character of forgiveness

    Proper 19, 13 September 2020 If Jesus is the centre, love draws and glues us together as the body of Christ, and forgiveness brings healing to the body. There remains a gap between what we learn at school and the reality of things: life has ways to confront us that aren’t in the textbook.  When…

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  • We were not created for comfort, but for greatness

    We live in a culture that loves comfort. For many of us, comfort is synonymous with convenience, ease, relief, and even luxury. We love air conditioning, ATM’s, 24/7 stores, pain-relievers, amusement centers, fast food. With the advent of mobile smart phones, the internet, GPS, among other advances in technology, this obsession with comfort has become…

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  • With whom do you stand?

    John 8:15-16 “You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me.” This statement by Jesus comes from the longer passage of John 8:1-20 which relates the incident of the woman caught in adultery.  But it…

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  • It’s not enough to be good, but to do good

    Proper 17, 30 August 2020 In last week’s reading, Peter confessed, “You are the Son of the living God”; Jesus praised him for receiving divine revelation.  In today’s reading he was off track and was rebuked.  We need to be praised, and also corrected at times.  Jesus spoke of His death, suffering and resurrection; this…

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  • The no-price-tag question

    Proper 16, 23 August 2020 In today’s Gospel we heard again how Jesus asked His disciples questions.  Children don’t have to be taught to ask a lot of questions: they have a strong desire to learn and know.  The Sacraments are there to provoke children to ask questions.  The Church’s Catechism is based on questions,…

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  • Longsuffering toward the lost

    2 Peter 3:8-10 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.  But the day of the Lord…

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  • Don’t be a Jonah

    Jonah 4:1-3 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and…

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