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		<title>That must be some toaster&#8230;</title>
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o, when was the last time you bought a toaster, and how much did you pay for it? Maybe $25 if you&#8217;re working on a tight budget, or around $50 if you&#8217;re looking for something that will last, right?   Even if you bought yourself some high-end European-style chrome model, it can&#8217;t have cost you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/03/that-must-be-some-toaster/</link>
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		<title>Words from Bramwell Ryan, on Beautiful Mercy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The text of an address given at the official launch for Beautiful Mercy by our senior editor, Bramwell Ryan.
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t’s a delight you have joined us on a night I thought – at times – would never come.
Yesterday morning was another long-anticipated time for me. Around 1 am I completed an 18-day stretch covering the Olympics. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/03/words-from-bramwell-ryan-on-beautiful-mercy/</link>
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		<title>From our &#8220;Beautiful Mercy&#8221; launch celebration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night we threw a bit of a party at McNally Robinson Booksellers (and to see a series of photographs from the event, just click here) in celebration of the official release of Beautiful Mercy &#124; A Book of Hours. With readings by Catherine Pate and Brett Schmall, music by Steve Bell, Mike Koop, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/03/from-our-beautiful-mercy-launch-celebration/</link>
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		<title>The horrors of human trafficking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ideaExchange &#124; slavery and extracted organs
With an estimated 27 million victimized around the globe, human trafficking includes everything from forced sexual labour in brothels, to the debt bondage that produces the jeans we wear, the cell phones we put in those jean pockets and the harvesting of human organs for sale. Next to trading weapons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/03/the-horrors-of-human-trafficking/</link>
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		<title>Why Christian communities should pay attention to art</title>
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ast night at the end of our liturgy, we had everyone who had played some role in the creation of Beautiful Mercy gather at the front of the church for a blessing.  In that context I made just a few remarks as to why we&#8217;d put such time and energy and resources into the production [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/03/why-christian-communities-should-pay-attention-to-art/</link>
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		<title>Prayers of the People &#124; February 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O God, we are in our 5th day of Lent – the days are getting longer while winter is getting shorter and our attentions are diverted in many directions.  The world grieves for Haiti while our corner of the world is donned in red and white as host of the Winter Games.  As we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/02/prayers-of-the-people-february-21/</link>
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		<title>Give it up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a personal reflection on the idea of a Lenten discipline

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sh Wednesday, 8:55am, and I&#8217;ve already messed up one part of my personal Lenten discipline.  For several years now, one of the simple ways in which I have observed the season of Lent is to forego using my car radio and CD player.  I don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/02/give-it-up/</link>
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		<title>Reflections and Reports for our Annual Open Meeting</title>
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very year during February, we hold an open congregational meeting aimed at any and all who consider themselves a part of saint benedict&#8217;s table.  The past year is reviewed, the finances are considered, and a bit of dreaming and goal-setting is put on the table for wider consideration and discernment.  This year&#8217;s meeting takes place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/02/reflections-and-reports-for-our-annual-open-meeting/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Claim Upon Us&#8221;: an opportunity for Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An invitation to our Wednesday evening Lenten series
 
 
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he Claim Upon Us: Learning Lent with Dietrich Bonhoeffer &#8211; Five Wednesdays in Lent:  February 24 and March 3, 10, 17 and 24, presented by saint benedict&#8217;s table in cooperation with the congregation of All Saints&#8217; Church.
Each of the gatherings will be built around a simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/02/the-claim-upon-us-an-opportunity-for-lent/</link>
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		<title>Prayers of the people &#124; February 7</title>
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L et us call the community into a time of prayer.  Loving God, so many have answered the call to work with the people of Haiti in so many ways. May they be blessed with financial, spiritual, and physical resources. And we ask a special blessing on the children of Haiti who are at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stbenedictstable.ca/2010/02/prayers-of-the-people-february-7/</link>
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