A Prayer for Lucca on the Occasion of her Baptism – Br. David Vryhof

Ecclesiasticus 2:1-11, Ephesians 1:11-23, and Luke 6:20-36

We’re not alone here today. Do you realize that? We know, first and foremost, that we are in the presence of God, the God in whom, as St Paul says, “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28); God is here with us. Today, on All Saints’ Sunday, we also recall that we are in the presence of all the saints, those men and women and children who have gone before us in the faith, who have shown us the way by their words and their actions. Read More

The Promise of Glory – Br. James Koester

Luke 6:20-26 (27-36)

As a teenager I discovered the glories of Anglo-Catholicism as it was practiced in some of the great Canadian Anglo-Catholic parishes. What I saw and heard and smelt was a far cry from St. Mary’s Church, Regina where cassock, surplice and stole were the order of the day, and where candles were something you put on the dining room table or on birthday cakes. Read More