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Holy lovesickness

Think about your travels to your church on Sunday morning; As you travel along a route so familiar, approaching the church building in those early hours of Sunday, do you expect that you will be in the presence of God? Continue reading

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Canada Prays: #prayersof #thanksgiving

CANADA PRAYS: An initiative of Anglican Fellowship of Prayer and Society of St John the Evangelist to help us all enter more deeply into the richness of prayer. For more information, please visit anglicanprayer.org or prayersofthepeople.org
This week: THANKSGIVING Continue reading

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Praying the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Introducing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in brief prayers. Continue reading

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Formal conversation begins | Dream project blog: part three

At the beginning of July, an announcement was made in two of our St. Catharines Anglican churches. In this third blog in a series that considers the possibility of a parish merge, The Rev. Martha Tatarnic reflects: “You know that saying about, “the best-laid plans?” Sometimes despite our best-laid plans, things go off track anyway. But in the economy of God’s grace, sometimes despite our best-laid plans, God’s grace emerges doing more than we could ask or imagine.” Continue reading

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Love and sacrifice

Christ’s love was made known by freely giving his life away in teaching, healing, serving, and death: all without obligation or encumbrance. Acknowledging that means that freely striving to make the right sacrifices is part of my calling, and communicates love in a way that very little else does. Continue reading

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Can we really practice the presence of God?

Is the constant practice of the presence of God actually doable? Can one maintain such constant awareness of God’s presence, or does Brother Lawrence set up an unrealistic, and ultimately self-condemning way of life? Continue reading

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Filling the space

Is our theology a little bit of substance, and a bunch of extra space, fitted into someone else’s standard size? If so, how do we respond to that? Continue reading

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Michael Mondloch | Dream project blog: part two

At the beginning of July, an announcement was made in two of our St. Catharines Anglican churches. In this second blog in a series that considers the possibility of a parish merge, The Rev. Dr. Michael Mondloch outlines five “universal truths” observed in “The Great Reveal.” Continue reading

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Obeying rules

Have you ever written a learning plan? Maybe a work Development document? What about a financial budget? If we find it beneficial to write these types of documents for school, work, and finances, then why not write one for our spiritual life? Continue reading

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You and me

It is an interesting and useful question to ask what part of who we are is nature and what part is nurture… But maybe the more important question for our daily movement through God’s world is what part of ourselves is only possible because of the person in front of us, at this very moment? Continue reading

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