Author: Fanny

Pentecost 3, Proper 8C Rev Fanny Belanger Luke 9: 51-62 We’re now in the season after Pentecost, also called “Ordinary season”. I rather call it “The season of discipleship”, because it’s this time between Pentecost and Advent when we read from the Gospel about Jesus’s ministry and especially about Jesus’s teaching, how the disciples were…

I recently installed a new app on my phone, a prayer app, and I like it because unlike the prayer app I had before, it’s not just a bunch of readings you have to do on your own as if you were reading from a book. With this app, you can choose from a range…

Today is the feast of the Pentecost, it is also our last Sunday reading from the Book of Acts. We’re in Chapter 2 and it’s a little strange if you think about it because it’s like we finish up with the beginning, and more than that we finish up with where it all come from,…

Today, we are conveniently going to pick up exactly where we left off last week in the Book of Acts, that is in the middle of Chapter 16. If you were here last Sunday, you may remember that we talked about how Paul was called in a vision to minister to the people in Macedonia,…

We’re already almost at the end of this Easter season, next week we will celebrate the feast of the Ascension and the week after, we’ll have Pentecost! It also means that we are almost done with the lessons from the Book of Acts every Sunday. Now we have been reading this Book for a few…

Hearing the lesson from the Book of Acts this morning, it might be easy to overlook the fact that it is one of the most important passages of the New Testament, some have even said: One of the most important passages in the whole Bible. Indeed we have here, again, quite a strange story with…

So we have quite a story this week, don’t we? As I am studying the Book of Acts, I really enjoyed an introduction to this book that went like this: If you’re too rational a person, Acts is probably not going to work for you. In fact, as we make our way through its different…

Today, for the second week, we continue our journey in the Book of Acts as we will do throughout this Easter season. The passage we have just heard this morning may sound familiar to us, this story of Paul’s dramatic encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus (You may have noticed that the Apostle…

This Easter season, we’re going to spend some time reading from the Book of Acts: During our Bible study on Wednesday for those who are able to attend, and also every Sunday at church. You may have noticed that this morning, we actually didn’t have a lesson from the Old Testament. Rather each Sunday until…

So there is this (true) story about a preacher who gets super stressed every year about his Easter sermon. He’s super stressed not only because it’s his big day, this is this one time of the year when his church is completely full, but also because he has this kind of annoying parishioner who only…