Perry W. Siddons

Wow that cover is amazing! It’d be hard to walk away from it.

Of course I need to turn on the AC so I can have my afternoon cup of coffee.

…because I am just not able to get to know the people as well as I wish I could.

Yes I do, so I’m able to get to know them a bit better. But still a weird adjustment from one Sunday to the next, knowing one congregation is different from the next. Sometimes it’s even two congregations on one Sunday! As long as I keep doing this I will feel the tension I’m talking about here…

The majority of my priestly ministry is clergy supply. I’m hardly ever at the same parish Sunday to Sunday, and it sure can be hard adjusting to a different audience every week, wondering if what I’m saying matters to them. Hopefully it’ll get easier for you.

Listening to Archbp Anne Germond’s address from yesterday and am wondering if the ACoC wants being an influential voice in the public square to be the point of the church, rather than preaching the gospel of salvation for all people…..

I’ve been wondering that myself, being a relatively new priest in the ACC…..

I don’t think anybody will care, sadly…..

Wait, am I understanding this correctly…. There were 41 Anglican churches in Winnipeg??

A priest standing in front of an altar wearing a black chasuble.

A blessed Good Friday to you all. ⚓️

Pray for the Arctic!

The lectionary readings today were bangers! The sermon pretty well wrote itself. Next few weeks, I’m not so sure…

I said in my sermon that Christ is our manure (and I also said: imagine that, the preacher just said Jesus is our manure. But I say it because it’s true. He is
the nutrients we need)

When others say similar things as I did in my sermon I think I may have been on the right track!

That is the opposite of the Golden Rule……….

Get your Lent on

I love this! I think people really miss this—that is, experiencing the love of God in a new way—when saying fasting isn’t necessary during Lent. Thanks for sharing about your struggles.

Very happy to see my King with President Zelenskyy!

Just open the Bible and read with an open heart

Had the opportunity to duck away for a one night retreat at a Catholic abbey. So good to enjoy prayer and fellowship with the monks, and a time of personal prayer, especially in preparation for Lent.

Gospel from Mass today: Lord, help my unbelief!
Such a simple prayer I love every time I hear it.
Lord, help me to not believe the lies about myself. Your truth about me is enough.
Help my unbelief!

Joseph’s brothers were, in a mysterious way, instruments of God’s plans. (God works in mysterious ways, doesn’t he? And what does that say about us, and his plans for us, then?) Raised from a pit, Joseph is brought into a new life to preserve life. Doesn’t this sound like our saviour too?
#sermon ⚓️

And despite our unruly thoughts toward others, God is gracious enough to keep us and refine us until our thoughts are more for the good of the other.

The grace of God is perplexing, causing us to pause and hold our tongue—instead of scratching our heads and blurting out, “Why bother with him?” “You’re doing it all wrong God!”

We would never say these things out loud, but we probably think them from time to time.

Celebrated in two different towns, felt like my sermon was really jumbled and disjointed, nice coffee time after the second service, nice nap while wife drove us all home.

Excited to be preaching and celebrating the Eucharist today, as we say goodbye to 2024 and look forward to 2025. In my sermon I will have us think about the past year—to give thanks and acknowledge our pain/grief/failures, and pray about our anxieties for 2025.

Too good not to share (and so I can back to it later 😁)

Happy sixth day of Christmas! “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

Holy Innocents

My wonderful baby learned how to take out the tab from my collar, and I wonder how it will take for me to realize I’m not wearing it anymore and she’s dropped it somewhere 😅