St. Anselm's Anglican Church, Vancouver BC

Epiphany 4C – February 3, 2012 – St. Anselm’s Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; 1 Corinthians 14:12b-20; Luke 4:21-32 Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of a time when she went to a weekend workshop.  The opening exercise was to share a story of someone who had been Christ in your life.  One after another people more »

Epiphany 3C, January 2, 2013, St. Anselm’s Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21 Today’s passage from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians is one that is probably familiar to anyone who has been a Christian for a while.  One of the reasons this passage is so popular is that the central more »

Epiphany 2C – January 20, 2013 – St. Anselm’s Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 36: 5-10; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; John 2:1-1 In today’s gospel, Jesus goes to a wedding and takes ordinary water and transforms it into great wine. According to the gospel of John, this changing of water into wine was the first of Jesus’ miracles; more »

Baptism of Christ, Jan 13, 2013, St. Anselm’s Isaiah 43:1-7; Psalm 29; Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Every year, on this first Sunday after Epiphany, we commemorate the baptism of Jesus. It was clearly an important story for the early church since it’s included, or at least alluded to, in all four gospels.  At his more »

Christmas Day 2012 Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-4 [5-12]; John 1:1-14 On Christmas Day we read the ‘other’ Christmas story   When we think of Christmas we tend to think of the familiar story from Luke of Mary and Joseph, the baby in the manger, the shepherds with their sheep, the angels and angel choirs, more »

Christmas Eve 2012 Isaiah 9:2-7; Ps. 96; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20 During the four Sundays of Advent we’ve been looking at the themes of hope, love, joy and peace.  Advent is a time of preparing for the celebration of Christmas, and these four themes come to fulfillment tonight. Tonight’s gospel is familiar for most of more »

Advent 4C – December 23, 2012 Micah 5-2-5a; Luke 1:47-55; Hebrews 10-5-10; Luke 1:39-45 Today, on this last Sunday of Advent, we’re celebrating the Sunday of Peace.  Along with hope, joy and love, peace is something we long to have more of in our world.  We talk a lot about ‘peace on earth’ at Christmas.  more »

Advent 3C, December 16, 2012, St. Anselm’s Zephaniah 3:14-20; Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 Well, here we are on the Sunday of Joy, and I’ll bet that most of us aren’t feeling very joyful.  At Christmas there’s lots of talk about ‘joy’ but I think we mostly don’t really understand what joy is.  We more »

Advent 1C – December 2, 2012 – St. Anselm’s Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25; Luke 21:25-36 Today we begin the season of Advent, a time of waiting and preparation.  The word Advent means coming.  It implies something wonderful off in the distance coming closer and closer and clearer and clearer as it draws near. Advent implies more »

Proper 28B, November 18, 2012, St. Anselm’s 1 Samuel 1:4–20; 1 Samuel 2:1–10; Hebrews 10:11–14, 19–25; Mark 13:1–8 The desire to know what the future will bring is probably as old as humanity.  We think if we know what the future will bring then we can be prepared for it.  But it’s not easy to predict more »