Monthly Archives: March 2009
Prayer of the people | March 29
W e call the community into a time of prayer. Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that,
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Lament as Pilgrimage
This is the text from a meditation on lament, offered on March 25, 2009 in our continuing series of Wednesday evening Lenten liturgies. The music for the evening was offered by Kerri Woelke, with Brian James sitting in to play
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Prayer of the people | March 22
“Those that do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God”. F ather, we have heard the words of the lessons this evening and just as
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Summer is coming… and so is day camp
A truly unique take on the old day-camp model L ast summer, in collaboration with the Plett clan, we sponsored our first ever day camp program, aimed at kids of elementary and middle school age. According to all reports, a
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Prayer of the people | March 15
T onight we live in a relatively peaceful city, we will sleep relatively soundly in our beds, tomorrow will bring a relatively mundane and ordinary day. We know that this is not the reality for millions around the world. Their
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Prayer of the People March 8
Almight God you have called us to focus on opening ourselves to those around us and meet their needs the best we can. This week a stranger walked in the doors of Shalom mission and gave a gift of $40,
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Si Smith's "40"
A remarkable resource for Lent I really want to alert people to a wonderful resource for Lent, by the UK cartoonist Si Smith. A year or two back, and over the course of the 40 day Lenten season, Smith
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Prayers of the People | March 1
W e call the community into a time of prayer. Lord Jesus, you were tried and tempted by the forces of evil. May we never be ashamed of temptation, but save us from the weakness of giving way to it.
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A musician takes us out on a pilgrimage
Over this season of Lent, our weekly Wednesday evening liturgies have been built around the theme of “pilgrimage.” On March 11, the liturgy included a reflection on the violinist Oliver Schroer’s Camino project, in which some music was played and