Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 5hOctober, And the trees are stripped bare, Of all they wear, What do I care? October , And kingdoms rise, And kingdoms fall, But you go on, And on. --U2 130
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For Michaelmas. Not in flights of romantic fantasy, not in abstract curiosity, nor in occult bemusement; but in the immediate concerns of our relations to one another in a dispirited world, we are called to ally ourselves with the spiritual powers of God’s providential care. --Robert Crouse 012
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. --Flannery O'Connor 0102
Reposted by Dave LangilleCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Nourish Gordon Shadrach 2022 09015
Reposted by Dave LangilleKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/09/2026I've been giving the good news from the report, but here's the more critical, growing edge: The study identifies personal invitation as among the strongest leads for an engine leading to growth, and we're doing next to nothing to capitalize on this. #TECTrajectory 📕 3191
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026After three weeks of vacation, I returned to preach and preside today feeling all the privilege, weight, and joy of this ministry. ⚓ 0111
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The tragic degradation of trust: As a CDN who lives in the USA, I once enjoyed describing Canada to my American friends and family, and describing America to my Canadian friends and family. Now I dread these conversations. Here's to a restoration of trust. 173
Reposted by Dave LangilleRobb Sutherland @robbsutherland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I was invited onto @alexdjfrost.bsky.social podcast to talk about estates, working class vocations and heavy metal. You can check it out on YouTube. www.robbsutherland.com/blog/alexfro...robbsutherland.comChatting about Estates, Working Class Vocations and Music with Alex FrostVisit the post for more. 053
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Looking at Jesus seriously changes things; if we do not want to be changed, it is better not to look too hard or too long. --Rowan Williams 0144
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Canadians, tell me where in Canada you're from, without telling me where in Canada you're from? 🇨🇦 (As for me, I'm from the home of these two Canadian icons). 251
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The more things change, the more they remain the same. 030
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Have to admit the emotional letdown this morning. The World Cup provided this preacher with a month of sermon illustrations. Now I need to go and watch the Odyssey, or something, right?static.klipy.comLionel Messi Llorando en Copa América 2024ALT: Lionel Messi Llorando en Copa América 2024 020
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Patience trains up the longing. Wait, for he waits. Walk on steadfastly that you may reach the end. He will not leave that place to which you are moving. --St. Augustine 031
Reposted by Dave LangilleBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 12/07/2026and to us sinners everlasting life 0142
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness. After several weeks of travel--Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin--it is good to be settled back at Messiah, St. Paul, for the next month. 030
Reposted by Dave LangilleScott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Can we get VAR for liturgy? On an unrelated note, I wonder how much it costs to build a Title IV Jail. 3122
Reposted by Dave LangilleDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I’m glad the King has more of a spine than Starmer (and of course he is King of Canada as a separate thing to being King of the UK, so if his Prime Minister is on side with him visiting Canada, it’s not really for Starmer to advise him not to). 1607
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Such a holy place to pray. All Souls' Chapel, St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 021
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Father's Day to all those who are blessed to share the privilege. In the words of that great Canadian, Red Green: Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together. 😉 021
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy longest day of the year, to all who celebrate. 131
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Morning light at Messiah, St. Paul. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. --Psalm 119:130 031
Reposted by Dave LangilleBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I forgive them. 0114
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I've agreed not to use Generative AI to write sermons. More info here: saintdunstanpledge.org ⚓ 2143
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Few of us have it all that hard. Lest we forget. The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. 041
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Today is our youngest lad's birthday. To celebrate I like to share this drawing of yours truly at my ordination, drawn by a then very bored nine year old. 061
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. --Fleming Rutledge ⚓ 0101
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026As clergy I am supposed to remind you to wear red for Pentecost Sunday. May I suggest... 031
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I was invited to write about Messiah's experience with Renewal Works, an initiative of the Forward Movement. It is "a discipleship initiative to orient parishes around the goal of growing spiritually". Being a "renewal" parish, I share it with Pentecost in mind. Link below. 331
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! --Psalm 118:24 (Image: Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, Karen Anderson) 011
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In heart and mind thither ascending! "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven". The Ascension window, Messiah, St. Paul. 031
Reposted by Dave LangilleBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I certify that this edition of The Book of Common Prayer has been compared with a certified copy of the Standard Book, as the Canon directs, and that it conforms thereto. 063
Reposted by Dave LangilleTeddy Focaccia @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 09/05/2026You know something is messed up if all three Episcopal bishops in TN issue a statement about it. ⚓ 4688
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It might be bending the rubrics, but whenever I pray the Litany I've been praying this for the three postulants from Messiah, St. Paul. I am happy to report that two have recently been made candidates for ordination. ⚓ 0121
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Morning Prayer was highly motivating, how I long to finish my course. 031
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026In our sickness we need a savior, in our wanderings a guide, in our blindness someone to show us the light, in our thirst the living water...We dead people need life, we sheep need a shepherd, we children need a teacher, the whole world needs Jesus! --Clement of Alexandria 081
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I was delighted to be with the Rev. Chris Boehm Carlson, Messiah's former Curate and Priest Associate, who has served as Priest in Charge at the Church of the Hoy Communion, St. Peter, MN. Rev. Chris was inducted as Holy Communion's next Rector by Bishop Loya last Wednesday. ⚓ 081
Reposted by Dave LangilleWill Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026RIP Michael Tilson Thomas. Growing up attending the San Francisco Symphony, I was inspired by his interpretations of Mahler, which were especially thrilling as a French Horn player. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/a...nytimes.comMichael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81 012
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Let it be accounted folly, or frenzy, or fury. It is our wisdom and our comfort; we care for no knowledge in the world but this, that the man hath sinned and God hath suffered; that God hath made himself the sin of men, and that men are made the righteousness of God. --Richard Hooker 162
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Making plans to attend this year's Atlantic Theological Conference, as "An exploration of the Anglicanism which defined Dr. Crouse, we will consider, amongst others, poetical sermons and writings of Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, George Herbert, John Keble and Austin Farrer". ⚓ 1111
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The banality of vulgarity. The banality of idolatry. The banality of AI generated dreck. 091
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The strife is o'er, the battle done; the victory of life is won; the song of triumph has begun. Alleluia! The powers of death have done their worst, but Christ their legions has dispersed. Let shouts of holy joy outburst. Alleluia! 031
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026This is reconciliation: His damnation our liberation, his defeat our victory, his mortal pain the beginning of our joy, his death the birth of our life. --Karl Barth Ivanka Demchuk, Shroud of Christ. 051
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. 091
Dave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. --Flannery O'Connnor 051