Monthly Archives: October 2010
Hymns from the Desert
Earlier this Autumn, Alana Levanandoski spent two days in the All Saints Church building, recording a new six song project entitled Hymns from the Desert. With the church space acting as both an acoustic and spiritual setting, this recording includes
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The communion of saints
With the Feast of All Saints just on the horizon, Alana Levandoski reflects on saints, deep connections, and the choosing of music for worship… T his morning, quite without thinking, I prayed the words from my Celebrating Common Prayer book, “that
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Prayers of the people | October 24
It is a still, quiet time these days as the earth prepares to go to sleep for a season. We hear the leaves rustle in the wind, the harvest is in and our larders are filled with what will bring
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The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
A note from Jamie Howison: What follows here are two different versions of a sermon on Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, with an eye to a reading from the prophet Joel. The recorded version is the
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Why we do what we do…
Making sense of our liturgical practice and symbols E very year or two we try to set aside a Sunday evening liturgy as an “instructed Eucharist,” which is basically our usual Sunday service with some added comment and instruction added
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Prayers of the People | October 17
Icall the community into a time of prayer. We gather here this evening to breath in the wonder of who you are God. As your people, created in your image, it is within our capacity to live and faith in
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A Past, a Present, and a Future
A Past, a Present, and a Future: an address delivered by Jamie Howison to the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Brandon on Friday, October 19, 2010 O ne of the great things about being asked to give an address
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Traveling Music
Back in June, we received an e-mail from saint ben’s regular Sarah Chopee, informing us that she was spending a few months as a volunteer with Scotland’s Iona Community, and asking for permission to introduce that community to Jenny Moore’s
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A musician on the mend
W e received a message from Robert Burton the other day, which included a file of some music he recorded just this past weekend with his trio. Robert is a music educator (River Heights Music is his project), leader of
On Hallowe'en
A note from Jamie Howison: Just as I was thinking that I’d write up a brand new post for the website regarding the whole business of Halloween – about why as Christians we shouldn’t get too wound up in an