Proclamation!

Proclamation! For Easter Sunday, 31 March 2024  Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the joy of the risen Christ and recalls how our salvation and the resurrected love of Christ has been handed down to us, from generation to generation, from one believer to the next, starting with Mary Magdalene who encounters the empty tomb on Easter morning and runs to Peter to announce that she had seen the risen...

Proclamation! For Palm Sunday, 24 March 2024: Sixth Sunday in Lent  From Palms to Passion Reverend Shelley leads us from the glory of Palm Sunday, celebrating the arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem, and then into the suffering of the passion during holy week, with a sermon that looks at the difficulties of holding true to what we believe when it seems that all is lost.   ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 10 March 2024: Fourth Sunday in Lent  Our journey through Lent continues with contemplation of the wilderness.  Reverend Shelley McVea compares the Israelites’ wandering for 40 years in the desert with our own struggles against fear and sinfulness.  Reverend Shelley considers the importance of lifting the Saviour up: when we allow him to take away our sins, we are preserv...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 03 March 2024: Second Sunday in Lent  Promises and Covenants  Today, Reverend Shelley McVie explores the way that we enter the promised land from the perspective of the covenants between ourselves and God:  The rainbow covenant that God gave to Noah, the ten commandments that God gave to Moses, and the message given by Jesus to love God with all your heart and to love you...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 25 January 2024: Second Sunday in Lent  Today’s special guest is Bishop Kevin who offers a Lenten message for us, by reflecting on the question that Jesus asks his disciples: “Who do people say that I am?”  The replied that people said that Jesus was the Messiah.  Jesus was to them a kind of hero, and although Jesus is a heroic figure, the symbol of his power is the cruci...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 18 January 2024: First Sunday in Lent  Reverend Shelley McVea begins the season of Lent with a reminder that Lent is a time for self-examination and reflection, as we try to find out who we really are.  Shelley ties this to the biblical story of Noah, and the covenant that God made with Noah, never to destroy the world again.  ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenu...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 31 December 2023:  Low Sunday With baby Jesus in their arms, Mary and Joseph make the long, long journey to Jerusalem.  Reverend Shelley McVea testifies to the power of showing up in our lives.    ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com   www.stsaviours.ca Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchw...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 07 January 2024: Epiphany The Gifts of the Magi Heavenly light is given to Israel in the form of a new born child, and on the Epiphany the seekers of Christ come from afar, following a star and bearing gifts fit for a king, for a priest and for a saviour.   ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com   www.s...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 03 December 2023, Advent 1 Even though we enjoy the pleasure of preparing for a cozy Christmas, with decorations and gift giving traditions, there is a deeper message that comes from the spirit of Advent.  Reverend Shelley McVea reveals how Advent is a time of crying out to God to hasten his coming: “Oh that you would open the heavens” and ransom us.   ***  St. Saviour’s...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 26 November 2023, Christ the King Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the feast of Christ the King by showing us what an unusual king Christ is.  He is the monarch who serves the weakest of his people and offers his inheritance to them.  He reveals that when you gave food to the hungry and water to the thirsty, you also gave food and drink to Christ the king.   ***  St. Sav...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 12 November 2023, 24th Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea takes on the difficult challenge of following the commandments of God while fulfilling the spirit of the Lord, all the while acting with free will.   ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com   www.stsaviours.ca Like us on Facebook:    ww...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 8 October 2023, 18th Sunday After Pentecost Guest preacher Gillian Eley explores the parable of the landowner who leases his vineyard to tenants. At harvest time, the landowner sends his messengers to collect their portion.  The tenants kill all the messengers, even the son of the landlord.   What is the landlord’s response to these unrepentant tenants?  And what does thi...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 5 November 2023, All Saints Day Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates All Saints Day by reminding us that as followers of Jesus, we too are considered saints.  Not that we are always saintly in our actions, but we have the pathway ready before us, through the examples of saints before us.  The people we loved on earth will become our saints in the kingdom.  ***  St. Saviour’s...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 17 September 2023, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea finishes her summer long examination of Paul’s letter to the Romans.   St Paul says, whether we live or whether we die, we belong the Lord.  And how are we to do this?   By welcoming those who are weak in faith and those who disagree with us.  But we have to find a way to do this without quarrellin...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 10 September 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea explains today that we are called by Jesus to celebrate, to sing with and to love each other.  But what happens when we disagree? Jesus has advice for that too.  Jesus recommends that we quietly take each other aside, and have a private discussion with the person we are in conflict with and resolve...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 27 August 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today we are joined by a very special guest speaker, the musician, composer, and activist Ruth Fazal .  Ruth works to build connections of friendship and worship between Christians and Jews in Jerusalem.  In this sermon Ruth describes the spiritual journey she went on when she took on the task of creating an oratorio based...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 20 August 2023, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today our guest preacher, Reverend Sandra Seaborn, leads us through three powerful scriptures: the Old Testament moment when Joseph in Egypt reveals his true identify to his brothers;  the New Testament story of the woman who shouts at Jesus, begging him as the Son of David to expel demons from her daughter; and, the epist...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 13 August 2023, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Today our guest preacher, Reverend Paul Walker, addresses the reasons why we are special in the eyes of God.  Looking and listening with faith, our faith is expressed in our words and deeds and is mediated by the experience of knowing the presence of God within us.    ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 6 August 2023, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea observes that almost everybody has experienced the feeling of a broken heart.  St. Paul recommends that we read Romans 8 in order to find consolation in Christ.  In today’s verses from Romans 9, Paul reveals that he lives in “great sorrow and unceasing anguish”.    ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley A...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 16 July 2023, Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea continues her exploration of Paul’s letters to the Romans and tackles the difficult subjects of sin and condemnation.   ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com   www.stsaviours.ca       Like us on Facebook:    www.facebook.com/churchwith...

Proclamation! For Sunday, 25 June 2023, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Reverend Shelley McVea considers St. Paul’s phrase, “Death no longer has dominion over us.” The grace of God is necessary and it abounds in the struggle against sin.  ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com   www.stsaviours.ca Like us on Facebook:    www.facebo...

Authority Vs. Power Today’s podcast features a special guest sermon.  Colin McCartney is a pastor with more than 35 years of ministry experience and is a founding member of Urban Promise Toronto and Connect City.  Colin is preaching on the significance of ascension as a motif in the lives of the apostles.   ***  St. Saviour’s Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4  416-699-6512  Email: stsa...

Proclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Easter: Sunday, 7 May 2023   Reverend Shelley McVea considers the question that Thomas asked of Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” The answer that Jesus gives Thomas indicates that Jesus is both the journey and the destination: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”  Jesus promises to take us to himself, and to dw...

Proclamation! For the Third Sunday of Easter: Sunday, 23 April 2023   Reverend Shelley McVea explores the happenings on the road to Emmaus.  A man joins two others walking on the road, and he asks what they are talking about.  They are surprised to encounter someone who hasn’t heard about the events in Jerusalem.  They tell this stranger how they believed that Jesus was their messiah, but now,. he...

Proclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Lent: Sunday, 26 March 2023   The Rev. Dr. Arthur Boers reminds us that it is Easter soon by not yet:  we are still in Lent and have to go “through a graveyard” to get to the resurrection. Like today’s Old Testament story, we are like dry rattling bones that hear the word of the Lord and all filled with new breath, or like today’s New Testament story, we are l...