How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings
Anyway, 375 years is not a Celebratory Year! St. John’s is Lucky to be surrounded by more interesting and human activities.
Everyone and everything around me is preaching a tub-thumper of a sermon about joy, in a delightful variety of ways.
I have reflected on these words of Jesus following our Lenten and Easter celebrations. And, indeed, we had an excellent Lenten program organized by Fr. Alain Brosseau on Wednesdays, which was very well attended, and also good Easter celebrations.
I was especially interested by a notice from around the end of the First World War outlining the specifics of the Tabernacle erected in St Anne’s Chapel during the ‘flu epidemic of 1918.
In Mount Royal Cemetery there is what appears to be an Irishman’s grave, a Celtic cross, among whose tangle of Celtic knots there is carved into the granite Revd William Wright, M.D./Professor McGill University.
St. John’s has been blessed with a number of newcomers in recent months, and we’d like to take this opportunity to introduce a few folks you may have seen at coffee hour lately.
That publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good , that publisheth salvation
