Proclamation! For Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021

Reverend Shelley McVea leads us in an Easter Sunday cheer of “Hallelujah! Christ is risen, He is risen indeed, Hallelujah!”

Shelley’s sermon for today celebrates the glory of the resurrection by looking closely at the story of Mary Magdalene, who is reluctant to leave the tomb of Jesus. She isn’t ready to let go of her healer and her teacher. She sees a man whom she thinks must be the gardener. This man asks her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

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Proclamation! For Good Friday, 2 April 2021

Postulant Jillian Ruch provides us with a sermon today that reflects on three characteristics of God - Selflessness, Obedience and Pure Love. These are found in the Gospel reading for Good Friday: John 18:1-19:42. Today we are present to the grief of Jesus' crucifixion and witness, in the telling of this event, God's selflessness. We see how Jesus modelled true obedience to God's plan, even with his own sacrifice and how God's pure love is shown to us through Jesus' death on the cross. Please listen, but I ask that you try to put yourself in the grief of Good Friday and not skip to the Joy of Easter Sunday.

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For Holy Thursday, 1 April 2021

Reverend Shelley McVea prepares us for the passion of Christ by considering the events of Holy Thursday, the evening of Jesus’ last meal, at which he washed the feet of his disciples, and then the vigil in the garden: the scene of a great betrayal.

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For Palm Sunday, the sixth Sunday in Lent, Sunday 28 March 2021

Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the story of Palm Sunday by reading the Gospel of Mark 11:1-11 when Jesus rides on the back of a borrowed donkey, to cheers of “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.” What does it mean for a king to make an entrance like this, knowing that he was prepared for the passion that waits for him in the days to come?

St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For the fifth Sunday in Lent, Sunday 21 March 2021

Have you ever spotted a celebrity? A sports star or a famous actor? In this morning’s gospel some Greeks wish to see Jesus, who has become a celebrity in Jerusalem. But instead of agreeing to see them, Jesus points to the Cross. It is by dying to ourselves that we will find eternal life. We are now entering the deepest part of Lent, pointing ourselves toward Holy Week. And Jesus offers us a profound paradox: the way to true life is by dying to our old ways and living to the new way of God’s upside-down kingdom.

Guest preacher Reverend Canon David Harrison considers the message found in John 12:20-33 when “the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified."

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For the fourth Sunday in Lent, Sunday 14 March 2021

Reverend Shelley McVea continues the Lenten journey and our understanding of the gospel of John, by a consideration of one of the most renown phrases in John’s gospel: John 3:14

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life."

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For the third Sunday in Lent, Sunday 7 March 2021

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Reverend Shelley McVea looks at the passage in the gospel of John, where Jesus literally turns the tables, by overturning them in the temple and driving out cattle, sheep and doves from the temple.

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For the second Sunday in Lent, Sunday 28 February 2021.

“Get behind me Satan,” Jesus said to Peter. Jesus recognized that Satan was trying to get in the way of His mission to save His people. In this sermon, postulant Jillian Ruch will walk through what it might have been like to be there when this was said, how we sometimes let other things in our lives get in the way today of Jesus' mission and then some of the things we can to strengthen ourselves against this.

Amen!

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

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Proclamation! For the first Sunday in Lent, Sunday 21 February 2021.

Reverend Shelley McVea starts the reflective season of Lent with the story of Jesus’ baptism by John. Immediately after that, Jesus drove into the wilderness, beginning his own 40 day experience of reflection.

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

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If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

Tell your friends - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.

Proclamation! For the last Sunday of Epiphany, Sunday 14 February 2021.

The “aha!” season of Epiphany and the gospel tells of a mountaintop epiphany that Peter, James and John have when they go up the mountain with Jesus. Reverend Shelley McVea explores the meaning of the events they witnessed, when they saw Jesus, Moses and Elijah in dazzling bright clothes. Why didn’t Jesus want those apostles to tell others about what they saw?

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St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4

416-699-6512

Email: [email protected]

www.stsaviours.ca

Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/churchwithreddoor/

If you would like to speak with Reverend Shelley to have a conversation about life or faith, personal concerns or in the case of a pastoral emergency, please call the church office and a time can be arranged. 416-699-6512

Tell your friends - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.