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Looking at Jesus seriously changes things; if we do not want to be changed, it is better not to look too hard or too long. --Rowan Williams

Canadians, tell me where in Canada you're from, without telling me where in Canada you're from? 🇨🇦 (As for me, I'm from the home of these two Canadian icons).

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Have to admit the emotional letdown this morning. The World Cup provided this preacher with a month of sermon illustrations. Now I need to go and watch the Odyssey, or something, right?

Lionel Messi Llorando en Copa América 2024

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Patience trains up the longing. Wait, for he waits. Walk on steadfastly that you may reach the end. He will not leave that place to which you are moving. --St. Augustine

and to us sinners everlasting life

Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness. After several weeks of travel--Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin--it is good to be settled back at Messiah, St. Paul, for the next month.

Can we get VAR for liturgy? On an unrelated note, I wonder how much it costs to build a Title IV Jail.

Best Church sign ever!

I’m glad the King has more of a spine than Starmer (and of course he is King of Canada as a separate thing to being King of the UK, so if his Prime Minister is on side with him visiting Canada, it’s not really for Starmer to advise him not to).

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This also makes Starmer look even more spineless on Greenland and the annexation threats than I initially thought he was.

Such a holy place to pray. All Souls' Chapel, St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Happy Father's Day to all those who are blessed to share the privilege. In the words of that great Canadian, Red Green: Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together. 😉

Happy longest day of the year, to all who celebrate.

Morning light at Messiah, St. Paul. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. --Psalm 119:130

I forgive them.

I've agreed not to use Generative AI to write sermons. More info here: saintdunstanpledge.org ⚓

Few of us have it all that hard. Lest we forget. The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.

Today is our youngest lad's birthday. To celebrate I like to share this drawing of yours truly at my ordination, drawn by a then very bored nine year old.

I always liked this one.

Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. --Fleming Rutledge ⚓

As clergy I am supposed to remind you to wear red for Pentecost Sunday. May I suggest...

I was invited to write about Messiah's experience with Renewal Works, an initiative of the Forward Movement. It is "a discipleship initiative to orient parishes around the goal of growing spiritually". Being a "renewal" parish, I share it with Pentecost in mind. Link below.

This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! --Psalm 118:24 (Image: Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, Karen Anderson)

In heart and mind thither ascending! "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven". The Ascension window, Messiah, St. Paul.

I certify that this edition of The Book of Common Prayer has been compared with a certified copy of the Standard Book, as the Canon directs, and that it conforms thereto.

You know something is messed up if all three Episcopal bishops in TN issue a statement about it. ⚓

It might be bending the rubrics, but whenever I pray the Litany I've been praying this for the three postulants from Messiah, St. Paul. I am happy to report that two have recently been made candidates for ordination. ⚓

Morning Prayer was highly motivating, how I long to finish my course.