Author: Admin_Mike

The Third Sunday in Lent 
March 23, 2025

THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE; 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY: PREVIEW OF THE READINGS

The spiritual life of a Christian has traditionally understood to consist of a process of purification and illumination leading to union and communion with God. Lent is a season given over to the work of purification and illumination. Today’s Gospel lesson continues the theme of the first two Sundays in Lent of Christ’s Divine power at work in us to cleanse and set us free from our bondage to the demonic power of sin. IN the parable which Jesus tells us we have a cautionary tale of the dangers of the spiritual life whereby the house of the soul, having been cleansed and put in order, is in a vulnerable  state, and needs to acquire and practice the virtues, lest it fall victim to a spiritually demonic “house invasion.” This is the work of illumination, and what that means and looks like is described for us by St. Paul in today’s Epistle.

THE LESSON : Ephesians 5:1-14

Continue reading “Lent 3 – March 23, 2025 – Bulletin”

with the

REV. HOWARD THORNTON

FRIDAY, MARCH 21 at 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22 at 7.00 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23 at 10.30 a.m.

In a chaotic, ever-changing, unstable, anxiety producing world, what are the fixed points by which to navigate life? St. Paul writes,

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor.13.13)

Howard Thornton grew up in the small town of Bowness, Alberta (now part of Calgary). He studied Broadcasting at SAIT and for more than 25 years was a news, weather and current affairs presenter for CBC Television in Saskatchewan. Howard did graduate studies at Canadian Theological Seminary in Regina, and the University of Oxford. He served as university chaplain, as well as vicar of two parishes in the UK, and is recently retired parish priest of St. Michael and All Angels, in Canmore, and St. George’s in the Pines, Banff Alberta. Howard and his wife Carol have five children and three grand-children.