Proclamation!

Proclamation! For Sunday, April 13, 2025, Palm SundayReverend 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 LentReverend 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 23, 2025, Third Sunday in LentAs 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 

Proclamation! For Sunday, March 16, 2025, Second Sunday in LentOf 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   

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, 2025Reverend 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 EpiphanyLike 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, January 26, 2025Reverend 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 Epiphany of the Lord, Sunday, January 5, 2025Reverend 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 you2.        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 2024Reverend 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 2024Guest 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 2024Reverend 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 2024Reverend 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 2024Reverend 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 2024Who 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 2024While 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 2024While 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 2024Boast of my WeaknessesDespite 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 2024Walking by FaithToday 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 2024Familes 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    

Proclamation! For the first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 2 June 2024The Lord Seaches and Will Find UsToday Reverend Shelley McVea reflects on Psalm 139:  a prayer to God that expresses the awesomeness of God.   As we seek for God, God also searches for us, knows who we are, and will find us, no matter where we are.  ***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 Trinity Sunday, 26 May 2024Reverend Shelley McVea explores the mystery of the Trinity: there is one God, but that God exists three dimensions: Heavenly God, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  The Trinity is mirrored in our human experience of relationships: our connection to God, our connections to others, and to ourselves.  ***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 Pentecost Sunday, 19 May 2024The Intense Fire of the Holy SpiritGuest preacher James Beck joins us today for a sermon that brings insight to the extraordinary events of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit inflamed the Apostles and enabled them to speak so that listeners of all different languages could comprehend them.   In effect, the Holy Spirit broke down the barrier that had been erected with the tower of Babel, which symbolized the ways that we no longer understand or empathize with each other.  ***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.comwww.stsaviours.ca    

Proclamation! For the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Ascension Sunday, 12 May, 2024Reverend Shelley McVea describes how forty days are the ideal number of days for creating change in our lives.  Perhaps we choose to cease doing something negative, or we choose to improve a skill, perhaps practicing piano a few minutes every day.  Today we celebrate Ascension Sunday and mark the transformation of the apostles over the forty days that have passed since the crucifixion of Christ.  In that time they mourned, but they also were able to deepen their faith and adopt a practice of joyfulness.   ***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 Sixth Sunday of Easter, 5 May 2024104 WordsReverend Shelly McVea leads us through the 104 words of the Creed.  Written over a thousand years ago, these words summarize Christian faith:  We believe there is a God; we can choose to serve God; we can be forgiven by and strengthened through God's abiding love.  ***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    We believe in one God,     the Father, the Almighty,     maker of heaven and earth,     of all that is seen and unseen.  We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,     the only Son of God,     eternally begotten of the Father,     God from God, Light from Light,     true God from true God,     begotten, not made,     consubstantial to the father.     Through him all things were made.     For us and for our salvation         he came down from heaven:     by the power of the Holy Spirit         he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,         and was made man.     For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;         he suffered death and was buried.         On the third day he rose again             in accordance with the Scriptures;         he ascended into heaven             and is seated at the right hand of the Father.     He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,         and his kingdom will have no end.   We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,     who proceeds from the Father and the Son.     With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.     He has spoken through the Prophets.     We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.     We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.     We look for the resurrection of the dead,         and the life of the world to come. Amen. 

Proclamation! For the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 28 April 2024Reverend Shelly McVea celebrates spring with a sermon that reminds us that spring is a time of planting, but it is also a time for pruning so that our gardens will prosper.  Spiritually, we are branches growing on a holy vine, and our spiritual practice needs tending, nourishment, and care.  Jesus said to his disciples, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower… Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.” ***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 Easter, 14 April 2024Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that Jesus is stronger than all earthly powers as we consider together the time when Jesus manifested among the disciples after the resurrection and asked them for something to eat.  He was given broiled fish, and he ate the food with them, and gave them the same reassurance that he gives to us, that he lives among 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 First Sunday of Easter, 7 April 2024After the crucifixion the apostles gather behind locked doors, fearing for their lives.  The resurrected Jesus appears to them and greets them with “Shalom”, with peace.  Jesus shares the evidence of his wounds, and by his wounds the apostles recognize him.  Thomas, who had doubted, cries out, “My Lord and My 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. 416-699-6512Tell your friends about Proclamation!  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

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 Lord. 

Proclamation! For Palm Sunday, 24 March 2024: Sixth Sunday in Lent From Palms to PassionReverend 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 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   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, 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 preserved from our fears and given eternal life.   *** 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/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, 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 your neighbour as yourself.   *** 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/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, 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 crucifix, and his heroic journey is the way of the cross.  *** 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/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. 416-699-6512Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

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 Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca 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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 31 December 2023:  Low SundayWith 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 07 January 2024: EpiphanyThe Gifts of the MagiHeavenly 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.stsaviours.ca 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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 03 December 2023, Advent 1Even 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 Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca 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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 26 November 2023, Christ the KingReverend 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. 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 12 November 2023, 24th Sunday after PentecostReverend 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:   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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 8 October 2023, 18th Sunday After PentecostGuest 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 this parable reveal about our relationship to God?  *** 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  

Proclamation! For Sunday, 5 November 2023, All Saints DayReverend 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 Church, 43 Kimberley Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca 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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 17 September 2023, Sixteenth Sunday after PentecostReverend 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 quarrelling over opinions or judging others.   *** 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and other podcast suppliers.  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 10 September 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after PentecostReverend 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 the disagreement in that manner, discretely.   *** 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes and all the podcast platforms. Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 27 August 2023, Fifteenth Sunday after PentecostToday 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 on “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” a book of poems and artwork of Jewish children from the time of the holocaust.  Ruth is an accomplished violinist, as you will hear when she takes a moment of musical meditation near the beginning of her sermon.  https:/ruthfazal.com

Proclamation! For Sunday, 20 August 2023, Fourteenth Sunday after PentecostToday 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 epistle of Paul to the Romans, stating that the message of Jesus is for all, Gentiles and Jews.  *** 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/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. 416-699-6512Tell your friends - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 13 August 2023, Thirteenth Sunday after PentecostToday 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, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca 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. 416-699-6512Tell your friends - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 6 August 2023, Tenth Sunday after PentecostReverend 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 Avenue, Toronto, M4E 2Z4 416-699-6512  Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 16 July 2023, Seventh Sunday after PentecostReverend 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Proclamation! For Sunday, 25 June 2023, Fourth Sunday after PentecostReverend 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.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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

Authority Vs. PowerToday'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: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca 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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

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 dwell with us there in a place he has prepared.  *** 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca   

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's been crucified.  The two don't recognize Jesus even as he walks along with them. This is an emblem of the resurrected Jesus, who is present to us but not yet revealed, who walks with us but who is not seen for who he really is. *** 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/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 - Proclamation! Podcast is now available for free through iTunes.Email: stsaviours@rogers.com www.stsaviours.ca