Sermons Blog
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Gospel 6:25-35
The people ask of Jesus,
What must we do to perform the good works of God?
What signs will you give us to confirm that we are on the right path?
Deepening questions from the followers of Jesus. The feeding of the thousands where leftovers turned into abundance was obvious. A crowd. No physical hunger. A moment that...
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Today we celebrate Truth and Reconciliation Sunday.
The TRC’s report was published 10 years ago in 2015 on
Canada’s residential schools.
The system lasted over a century, about 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children attended
about 139 institutions.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented at least 3,200 student...
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Today (Sept 21) we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Matthew.
Not much is known directly about Matthew.
He was probably born in Galilee, northern Israel, into a Jewish family.
The name Matthew means= “gift of God”
Matthew was a tax collector for the Roman government in Capernaum,
on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
Tax collectors...
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There’s an old joke you might have heard:
A man and his wife were having an argument
about who should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first,
and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."
The husband said,
"You are in charge of the cooking around...
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Genesis 18:1–10a
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So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I be fruitful?”
These verses which follow our first reading from Genesis this morning, highlight the absurdity of it all…a woman who is in her 90s, who has been barren her whole life, who has long passed her menopause years…all of a...
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2 months ago, I took part in a street protest
against the Catholic School Board motion
to ban the Pride Flag.
It was my first time at a protest,
and there were a few things I didn’t understand.
People were all joining in one chant, and I just couldn’t understand what they were chanting.
What I heard was:
Queer kids forever
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She was there at the beginning of creation,
She was with God at the dawn of time.
Wait a minute now,
hold on.
She was there?
Who is this she?
In our first reading today from Proverbs 8,
“Woman Wisdom” stands alongside God at creation.
As Christians, we see in her a foreshadowing of the Triune God
—Father, Son, and...
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[Sing:]
And he walks with me
and he talks with me,
and he tells me I am his own.
If you didn’t know any better,
you might think those are the lyrics from
a slightly old-fashioned pop song.
You know it’s old-fashioned
because the boyfriend takes the time to walk and talk
before telling the girl she is his own.
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In the 1977 classic movie “Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope”,
there is a climactic fight between the wise old Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi
and his former apprentice, the evil Darth Vader.
It seems the old man is hopelessly outmatched in the fight,
but he speaks these cryptic words to his opponent: “If you strike me down,
I...
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Acts 11:1-18
God’s love is greater than we can imagine.
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A few weeks ago, I attended my first ever protest.
I wouldn’t describe myself as an activist, but there I was,
on Weber Street,
waving a sign and chanting along with the crowd.
End of April, the Trustees of the Waterloo Catholic School Board
were voting to ban the...
