The Rev’d. Karla Holmes, BMus, BEd, MA (applied linguistics), MA (theology), DipMin

Karla is back at St Matthias' (the church who discerned her calling in the early 2000's) after serving the Diocese as Incumbent of St Thomas' NDG for almost 14 years. Before being ordained, she taught at Concordia University and Cegep du Vieux Montreal in their English Second Language and Pedagogy programmes. Sadly, she never achieved her childhood dream of being an astronaut. She is happy to serve this community through occasional preaching and celebrating as well as any other tasks that may come up. She has a passion for incarnational theology and is presently in training to be a spiritual director. She has two cats and a big labradoodle who is sociable but a very bad boy when meeting other dogs on the leash.