THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The Day of Pentecost 31 May 2020 From Fr Randy Heart Like A River: A Pentecost Reflection Late that same day, the first day of the week, when the disciples were together behind locked doors…Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!”
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Ascension Sunday 24 May 2020 Artwork: Ceiling of Palais Garnier (Paris Opera). 1964. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Oil on canvas. Reading: John 17.1-11 (printed below) AFTER saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The Sixth Sunday of Easter 17 May 2020 Art & Reflection May 17, 2020: The Sixth Sunday of Easter Artwork: Interior With Woman at Piano, Strandgade 30 (1901). Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Oil on canvas. Private collection. Reading: John 14.15-26 (printed below.) JESUS SAID to his
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The 5th Sunday of Easter 10 May 2020 Art & Reflection Sunday, May 10: Easter 5 Artwork: Interior With Woman In Red (1903). Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) Oil on canvas. Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland). Reading: John 14.1-14 (printed below) Jesus said, ’Set your troubled hearts at rest. Trust
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The 4th Sunday of Easter 3 May 2020 From Fr Randy Artwork: Boy With A Flute (1910). Paul Henry (1876-1958). Charcoal on paper. Private collection. Reading: John 10.1-10 (printed below). Also Exodus 3.1-15. Jesus said, ’In very truth I tell you, the man who does not
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The 3rd Sunday of Easter 26 April 2020 The supper at Emmaus *oil on paper on panel *circa 1628 *signed b.r.: R (indistinct) Reading: Luke 24.13-35 THAT same day two disciples were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The 2nd Sunday of Easter 19 April 2020 Meditation and the Eternal Now: The Unbelief of St. Thomas (Fr Randy+) One of the Twelve, Thomas the Twin, was not with the rest when Jesus came. 25So the others kept telling him, ‘We have seen the
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The Sunday of the Resurrection; Easter Day 12 April 2020 From Fr. Randy: New Life in a Darkened Garden St. John’s account of Jesus’ resurrection begins, not as day breaks, but where Jesus’ burial on Good Friday left off: in darkness and the silence of
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday 5 April 2020 From Fr. Randy: Divine Embodiment The hymn that comprises the second reading for Palm Sunday (Philippians 2.5-11), records a truth that lies near the heart of Christ’s ministry to us. There it says that Christ, “bearing the human
THE CAT’S MEOW St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope The Fifth Sunday in Lent 29 March 2020 Fr Randy has shared the following: Something to ponder in lonely and stressful times. The Christian life does not take away our loneliness; it protects and cherishes it as a precious gift. Sometimes it seems as if we
