Lent 2024 – Reflection and Meditation

Father David has provided us with a series of meditations to help us to reflect during the Lenten season.  During Lent, we’ll add a link to a new meditation each week leading up to Easter. Past Sessions: Introduction video that explains a bit about the series and how to use...

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Easter Day (and Holy Week)

The holiest event in the Christian calendar.  Celebrations happen in many ways around the world, but all point to the same thing.  Jesus Christ risen from the dead, a sign of God’s grace to us as we are adopted children of God promised with eternal life.  We shout our Hallelujah’s...

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Good Friday

Many ask why this day, of all days, is called “Good” when it is about the crucifixion of Jesus, his death on the cross.  Many see it as God Friday, that even in death there is faith in God to do something new.  What new thing is God doing in...

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Palm Sunday

With palm fronds and palm crosses held high, we join in the majesty of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.  A bitter sweet moment, as we then move to more somber tones with the readings for the Passion of Jesus.  Thank God that he knows our highs and lows, meeting us at...

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Happy Easter

Easter 2021

Easter is a wonderful time of year, as we see the beginnings of Spring, but it was not always such an easy time.  In fact, a great many people who followed Jesus found it a particularly difficult season as the person they had grown to love was killed in the...

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Love’s Redeeming Work

“Love’s redeeming work is, alleluia! Dear friends in Christ, The second verse of that well-beloved Easter hymn Christ the Lord is Risen Today, penned by Charles Wesley (1707-1788), proclaims the bringing to completion of God’s work in Christ for the sake of all humanity. It is done! We have nothing...

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A Reflection on Our Lord’s Passion

Henri Nouwen, a Dutch Priest and past spiritual leader of the L’Arche Daybreak Community, just down the road from here in Richmond Hill, wrote the following in his little book called With Burning Hearts: “When you are feeling only your losses, then everything around you speaks of them. The trees,...

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A Reflection for Lent

“Return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning” (Joel 2:12), says the Lord. “Be reconciled with God” (2 Corinthians 5:20), begs St. Paul. Indeed, Lent is a homecoming of sorts. It is a time when we need to take the time to be with...

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