Proclamation!

Proclamation! For Sunday, July 13, 2025 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Who is my Neighbour? Reverend David Alenskis preaches a guest sermon today on a most familiar parable, the story of the good Samaritan who helps a person who has fallen in the road.  David explores the larger question of who, really, are our neighbours and what is our calling to serve them?   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, or 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca         

Proclamation! For Sunday, April 13, 2025, Palm Sunday Reverend Shelley McVea begins Holy Week with insights into the sinful parts of ourselves, as we contemplate the passion of Christ.  Jesus is brought before Pilot.  Even though Pilot concludes that Jesus is innocent, Pilot condemns Jesus to suffer death on the cross.     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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For Sunday, 6 April 2025, Fifth Sunday in Lent Reverend Shelley McVea considers the ways that the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, how we are like those who dream and soon, though we face difficulties now, we will be filled with laughter.   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 about Proclamation!  

Proclamation! For Sunday, March 16, 2025, Second Sunday in Lent Of the many animals mentioned in the Bible, such as the lamb and the lion, Jesus chooses a most unlikely animal to compare himself: a hen.  A hen that gathers her chicks under her wings for protection.   Reverend Shelley McVea offers insight into the ways that Jesus protects us in his mercy.   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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For Sunday, March 23, 2025, Third Sunday in Lent As the news of the world becomes more painful to hear, Reverend Shelley McVea considers the warnings that Jesus gave his disciples: get your lives together and trust in God.   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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  

When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, he gave them the words of the Our Father, a prayer we still pray today.   Reverend Shelley McVea reviews the importance of "Lead me not into temptation", in the context of Jesus fasting alone in the desert for 40 days, where he encounters Satan who tries to lead him into temptation.   

Proclamation! For Sunday, January 26, 2025 Reverend Shelley picks up the early days of Jesus’ life with the time when he is ready to start his ministry in the world.  After being in the wilderness, Jesus is filled with the spirit and h returns to his hometown of Nazareth.   Jesus goes to Synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom, and Jesus stood up to read the scripture that says “the spirit of the Lord is upon me”.    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 about Proclamation!  

Proclamation! For Sunday, January 26, 2025 Reverend Shelley McVea leads us through Jesus’ first documented words, as Jesus speaks in a Synagogue.  The listeners are amazed that “Joseph’s Son” saying so many “gracious things”. What is Jesus doing? He is revealing himself through his teachings.  How did they react? They drove Jesus out of town.  Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For Epiphany of the Lord, Sunday, January 5, 2025 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem.   The Magi brought gifts to the child, and they bring gifts to us today, in the form of  wisdom they have given us:  1.        Follow the light that God has shown to you 2.        Be ready to change plans as needed  3.        Be the light that shines in the darkness  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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For the Third Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 15 December 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea proposes the advent challenge, that we trust in the Lord, and, even harder, that we trust in joy.  Joy is a big ask, but it is one of the challenges of advent.     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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For the First Sunday of Advent, Sunday, 1 December 2024 Guest speaker Reverend David Alenskis joins us today with a message for the first Sunday in Advent.  Christmas is coming and we are in a state of readiness: how do we prepare? We prepare by paying attention, waiting and watching in a spirit of hopefulness.    * 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For Sunday, 24 November 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea celebrates the Reign of Christ with insights for a purposeful life, how we can allow the grace of the kingdom to change us and to enable us to conquer that which diminishes us, be it weakness, temptation, or addiction, our relationship with the king will transform us.  * 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For Sunday, 17 November 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea preaches on the end of days, not as a time of catastrophic destruction, but as the revealing of God’s divine truth.   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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 8 September 2024 Reverend Shelley McVea takes us through a gospel story where Jesus does an unlikely thing, he meets a woman whom he does not want to heal.  He has gone to a remote place to take some time away from his ministry.  But this woman is in despair over her daughter’s illness, and she begs Jesus for healing.   * 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca     

Proclamation! For the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 1 September 2024 Who Do You Say I Am?  Today we welcome a special guest preacher, David Alenskis, who engages with Mark’s gospel and asks, how does Jesus ask those around him to re-examine their values?  Jesus is asked why he lets his disciples eat without washing their hands in the properly designated way.  Jesus challenges the traditions of the ancestors and focuses on the inner life of a person, “what comes out of us is more important than what goes into us.”  *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 11 August 2024 While Reverend Shelley enjoys a summer break, we are joined today by the Reverend Catherine Sider Hamilton.  Reverend Catherine tells us the story of an uprising of a son against his own father, and the battle in which that son, Absalom, was killed.  Even though it was an uprising against his own leadership, David wept and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!” *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 28 July 2024 While Reverend Shelley enjoys a summer break, Warden Gillian Eley takes to the pulpit to share an inspirational message on the grounding and deepening power of prayer.  In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (3:14-21), Gillian uncovers a love letter to a community that Paul is urging to be transformed through the power of prayer.  Paul describes how he kneels when he prays because he is overwhelmed and humbled in the presence of the love of Christ. *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 7 July 2024 Boast of my Weaknesses Despite the many challenges that Paul faced, Reverend Shelley McVea explains how Paul could still say that he will “boast of his weaknesses” because he experienced the power  of God to transform his sufferings and enabling him to be content.   *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 16 June 2024 Walking by Faith Today Reverend Shelley McVea ponders what it means to walk ‘by faith and not by sight’.  Does it mean that we accept beliefs without truly thinking about what we believe and that we may not have a handle on what’s really going on in the world.  But Shelley doesn’t think that is the case.  Many of us experience the harsh realities of this life:  even so, we can navigate our journey through the real world using our faith in Jesus to guide us with compassion and mercy.     *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca       

Proclamation! For the second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 9 June 2024 Familes and Forgiveness  Today Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that we all come from families, some better, some worse, and even Jesus had a family.  We know of his birth to Joseph and Mary, and of Jesus’ presentation to the synagogue in his youth, but most of what we know about Jesus comes from the time when he was not with his family.  Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the time when he travelled with his apostles and preached a revolutionary message for the forgiveness of sins.  *** 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 about Proclamation!   Email: stsaviours@rogers.com  www.stsaviours.ca