Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, the final day before the beginning of the Lenten season. Where has the time gone? I almost feel I just put away my Christmas decorations at Epiphany and in 41 days, it will be Easter. I hope, like me, you will use tomorrow as a day of self-reflection … Continue reading Shrove Tuesday
Category: Miscellaneous
Candlemas 2020
The Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary is often called Candlemas, so I took my candles to the cathedral to have them blessed. The cathedral, being rather low church, hadn’t done candle blessing for some years now, so I priest did a private blessing of … Continue reading Candlemas 2020
Happy New Year! 🥂🍾🎉🕛
Collect for the New Year (Book of a Common Prayer, Canada 1962): O Immortal Lord God, who inhabitest eternity, and hast brought thy servants to the beginning of another year: Pardon, we humbly beseech thee, our transgressions in the past, bless to us this New Year, and graciously abide with us all the days of … Continue reading Happy New Year! 🥂🍾🎉🕛
Merry Christmas!
Taken from the Book of Common Prayer Canada 1962 Wishing you all a very merry Christmas. May the peace of the Lord be always with you all.
Praying for Others
I find it hard and a bit awkward to pray for others. Part of me feels unworthy or not qualified to pray for them, and part of me feels my prayer won’t help. People have asked me to pray for them. And if such a request comes, I will pray for them. As a lay … Continue reading Praying for Others
Trust in the Lord
During difficult times, one must have faith in the Lord. I am not a shining example of one that is faithful, I have doubted in the Lord countless times, and questioned him many times. But during Evening Prayer tonight, the grace of God was shown before me in the words I read. Some may attribute … Continue reading Trust in the Lord
Jonah and the “Whale”
That’s an odd looking whale.
The Nunc Dimittis, My Favourite Canticle
LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, / according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, / which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles, / and to be the glory of thy people Israel. GLORY be to the Father, … Continue reading The Nunc Dimittis, My Favourite Canticle
Attending an Antiochian Orthodox Divine Service
St Antonios Antiochian Orthodox Church, Halifax, NS On Sunday, 22 October, 2019, I was invited by a friend to attend the local Antiochian Orthodox Church, St Antonios. It was my first Orthodox Divine Liturgy. I thought that even though it was Orthodox, it was still a Christian church, so it couldn't be that different … Continue reading Attending an Antiochian Orthodox Divine Service
Anglo-Catholicism in England
Altar at the Church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London During my second Anglican pilgrimage to England in Aug 2019 (see my other post), I had the opportunity to experience Anglo-Catholicism worship at two Anglo-Catholic churches, the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, and the Church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London. The … Continue reading Anglo-Catholicism in England
High Anglican Haligonian 