It’s been just over eight years since I received an email from our former Bishop, The Most Rev. Ron Cutler, who, after the usual “Hello,
This summer I’m looking forward to returning to the Anglican Convent in Toronto. It will be the first time in four years the Sisterhood of
At the end of this month of May, we will celebrate the great festival of Pentecost. This day, along with Christmas and Easter, recalls significant
During this season of Easter, we hear again the stories of the Resurrection appearances. Among my favourites is the compelling story of two disciples’ encounter
At a particularly dry period in my spiritual life, I wrote to a friend (who just happened to be a monk) to tell him I
For several years, I met regularly with a man who was seeking spiritual guidance. He would sometimes share his concerns for his family or his
When our children were 8 and 5, they begged us to let them stay up until midnight on New Year’s Eve. It was, after all,
In his acclaimed work Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, the American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote: “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is
There is such value of telling stories for telling one’s story is a way of understanding one’s life and history and place in the universe. We all have family stories,
A classmate, who was on the cross-country team, signed my high school year book “Just watch me go madly off in all directions!” You may
Many of us know the opening verses of Ecclesiastes 3, thanks to Pete Seeger’s folk song “Turn, Turn, Turn,” released in 1962. Those verses end
For me, a perk – or more accurately, a hindrance – spawned by this relentless pandemic has been binging on television series. Maybe you’ve succumbed
On May 27, 2021 it came to light that the remains had been detected of 215 children, some as young as 3 years, at the
Breath Prayers Inhale: Humble and gentle One, Exhale: you are rest for my soul. (from Matthew 11:28-30) Inhale: True Vine and Gardener, Exhale: I abide
Not long after we were married, my husband Paul and I, and his mother Elaine, traveled to Weston Priory, a Benedictine community in Weston, Vermont.
I have always loved words, loved the tempo, nuance, rhyme, and potential reason, sounds make. I’ve also always loved to write, to play with words.
Over the years, people who know of my interest in prayer have given me some amazingly thoughtful gifts. Among them have been collections of prayers,
One of the side-effects of living during a pandemic is the change in our perception of time. I’ve heard people use the abbreviations “PP” for
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