Search This Blog

Geste of the Great King

"Geste of the Great King" is a reference to a prayer book that St. Francis of Assisi composed. In this prayer book, Francis contemplated the journey of Christ's paschal mystery. Christ is the hero, and St. Francis is the geste who through these prayers becomes a witness and closely connected to Christ mysterious death on the cross. Inspired by Christ and St. Francis, this blog is affectionately named after St. Francis' prayer book.

St Aug's Nov 15, 24th Sunday after Pentecost

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

November 15, 2020

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Broken Homes and Broken Bones

February 20, 2017

For those who do not know, I live close to the inner city. Even my neighbourhood is considered low income, despite all the re-gentrification that has happened in the past ten years. As I walk to work, one can not help but notice all the abandoned houses due to fires or closures by the health board. My neighbourhood is littered with them and so is the McCauley area. Boarded up to prevent squatters, these places tend to just sit there and take up space for years, the landlords just leave the lots as they are or empty. I can not help but to make an analogy of these broken homes with some people that I serve, those whose spirits and bones have been broken. You encounter people like this coming from all walks of life and from all cultural and economic circumstances. When really wounded there is always that "danger keep out" sign in front of them. Boarded up to protect what shell of a house remains. As sad as this analogy may seem, there is hope f...

Sermon Feb. 18/18: A new Conscience in Christ

February 18, 2018

In Genesis, we hear about Noah’s Ark. One of the most popular biblical stories filled with the images of the great flood, the building of ark, animals and a rainbow. Overcome with the more Hollywood image of this tale, we often forget that this is a story about God making a change in His own behavior. God promises to never use divine anger as a means of punishing his divine art piece, creation, and his reflected divine image, humanity. The God of Israel, is moved with remorseful compassion. In other words, the very thing God set out to do was to create life, not destroy it. How do we know that God was moved by this event? God created the rainbow to be a reminder to God’s self to not give into anger and destroy his creation again—the rainbow is not for us to remember, but for God to remember his side of the contract. The first temptation we need to resist, then, is believing that God is involved in any horrific acts of violence, and terror within the world in order t...

Great to be sick at home, when you have a home

March 13, 2017

This week I have nothing exciting to blog about as I was down for the count. Knocked out by a flu and allergies, I had met my match and waved the white flag. As I was throwing back the Neo-citron chasers, and watching Netflix on my laptop, I realized that I was very blessed and lucky to have four walls around me, a roof over my head, and heat and electricity to keep me warm and in the lap of luxury until my temporary illness faded off into the sunset. It is nice to have a home to be sick in and the technology to have pizza delivered to my door while I type these thoughts out to you. For many who I serve at Inner City Pastoral Ministries, the same can not be said. I have many people who suffer way worse illnesses in places unfit to live in or they are homeless. Struggling to find warmth on the street outside in -20 to -30 weather is absurd when healthy, but to hide away in the tunnels of the LRT while sleeping on cold concrete while the body aches for c...