Monthly Archives: February 2009
A book for Lent
Toward What We Can Scarcely Imagine and Scarcely Refuse We’re really pleased to let you know that we now have copies of a new book for Lent in hand and available for sale for just $5. Toward What We Can
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the season of Lent at saint benedict's table
some ways in which you can engage the season of Lent T he biblical book of Exodus tells the story of the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. It is a particularly dramatic story, culminating in a last
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Prayer of the people | February 22
F ather, we come to you in prayer this evening cognizant of all the elements that make community work. We have vision, we have capacity, we have energy and we have hope. As we heard in tonight’s lesson – “you
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A good thing to do on Riel Day
Here in Manitoba, we now mark the third Monday in February as Riel Day. Hard to know how many people really paid much attention to the figure of Louis Riel; for most of us, it was just a welcome day
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Prayer of the people | February 15
G od our Father Many of us come from an ugly grey world of confines. Of bars, cells, whether these are literal, physical, spiritual, emotional and or mental. Some of us struggle with drug dependence and alcohol addiction. Some of
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"Got to slow down to speed up"
A sermon on Isaiah 40:21-31 and Mark 1:29-39 T hose who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles. “Those who wait for the Lord,” says Isaiah, by which he means
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Prayer of the people | February 8
I call the community into a time of prayer… God you call us to be committed to you in all we do. Too often we deviate from and resist your calling with our time and attention being directed elsewhere in
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Having grown up United…
saint ben’s member Jodi McLaren looks back on the church that formed her, and offers both thanks and a bit of an invitation to the rest of us to watch our assumptions. T he other day during our discussions at
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Folkerts | Unfinished Business
a remarkable way to close the exhibit On February 1, 2009, some 150 people gathered at Winnipeg’s Outworks Gallery to mark the formal closing of an exhibit of the work of artist Gerald Folkerts. While exhibit openings are more
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Connecting well beyond our borders
At our recent annual open meeting, one of the things we did was to approve that some money be donated to a variety of ministries involved in work that made sense to us. A gift of $1000 is going to