Today is our one Sunday in the whole liturgical year with a lesson from the Book of Ecclesiastes, so I thought it would be worth it to give it a little bit of our attention. If you don’t know the Book of Ecclesiastes, also called Qoheleth, well you have nothing to feel bad about since…
Author: Fanny
Proper 12(C) – Our Lord’s Own Prayer (Luke 11: 1-13)
Today is one of these Sundays where the topic of our Gospel is quite obvious, isn’t it? We have three moments in our text: The teaching of the “Our Father”, the story known as “The parable of the friend at midnight”, and a list of sayings. All of these passages are about prayer, which is…
Proper 11(C) – The One Thing (Luke 10: 38-42)
I don’t know if you have noticed but I think there is a little bit of an assumption in church that when there are stories with women in the Bible, it means they are stories for women. For this reason I guess, whenever we offer a study about “Women in the Bible”, hardly any man…
Proper 10(C) – Good Samaritans (Luke 10:25-37)
I was on the look out this week for good “Good Samaritans” stories in the news and I found plenty: An immigrant rescues a family from a fire by climbing on the window of their apartment, a young man saves a baby from a flood, a mom finds a kitten under a truck on a…
Proper 9C – Not your job? (Luke 10:1-11, 16-20)
As our liturgical time after the Pentecost unfolds, we are going to spend more time in Luke’s Gospel. We started last Sunday and we continue today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the way the Gospels were written, most scholars agree that Mark’s Gospel is the first to have been written, and then…
Proper 8C – Everything that comes in the way (Luke 9: 51-62)
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…
Trinity Sunday (C) – Guiding us into all truth (John 16: 12-15)
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…
Pentecost (C) – Only the Beginning (Acts 2: 1-21)
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,…
Easter 7 (C) – Freedom to worship (Acts 16: 16-34)
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,…
Easter 6(C) – A change of direction (Acts 16: 9-15)
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…