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Then the sacred cut ... or cutting of the sacred cored? At the heart it is sensitive ... but sometimes hard to find ... especially in wild desires ...

Dogs of Rome ... like pegs in a great squeal ...
 
Back to the subject of church, we had a wonderful community bbq tonight. Yummy steaks served with dinner rolls, various salads, pretzels, and various beverages. For dessert, ice cream, chocolate cake, and oranges. Afterwards, our youth gave a great concert and the night finished with a prayer from our pastor. A really special night filled with good food, good music, and good fellowship.
 
My last scheduled services at a two-point charge. I love the people, but I did feel a little like an outsider most of the time. I wonder if that is how other people feel when they try to get involved in a new-to-them church.
 
Nancy said:
My last scheduled services at a two-point charge. I love the people, but I did feel a little like an outsider most of the time. I wonder if that is how other people feel when they try to get involved in a new-to-them church.
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I have felt this way in new Church experiences, but have also felt the opposite of fitting in right away. Some congregations are more welcoming than others and some are insular where you always feel like an outsider.
 
Today's sermon was by Chantal Stormsong Chagnon and was giving the perspective of Truth and Reconciliation from the Aboriginal side. We have much to learn from each other. The depth of Chantel's spirituality was most impressive. Hope she does a sermon again sometime.
 
You just never know said:
Today's sermon was by Chantal Stormsong Chagnon and was giving the perspective of Truth and Reconciliation from the Aboriginal side. We have much to learn from each other. The depth of Chantel's spirituality was most impressive. Hope she does a sermon again sometime.
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Something to learn from one another??? What a far out networking conceptualization ...
 
Attended an enjoyable baptismal service at a Catholic church in King City yesterday. The kids were so cute. There was no sermon, no congregational singing, but lots of prayers. The priest seemed like a friendly guy.
 
Was at a mtg of all the UCs in our city recently - an idea came up to take one Sunday each month to go to a different church - "Mix it up Sunday" OR to go out into the community to see where people are, and what God's up to on Sunday mornings in our neighbourhoods ... would be interesting!
 
Carolla said:
Was at a mtg of all the UCs in our city recently - an idea came up to take one Sunday each month to go to a different church - "Mix it up Sunday" OR to go out into the community to see where people are, and what God's up to on Sunday mornings in our neighbourhoods ... would be interesting!
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That could cause a stir in the solidly indoctrinated about moving experiences ...
 
Today's sermon was by our former Music Director Nancy Cheagus. She was speaking of the insights she has gained from the books of theologian Mary Jo Leddy. One of the insights that stood out for me was Mary Jo's idea of not just seeing the centre, but seeing the edges as well. The rest of the service was led by our current Music Director Justin Macowsky. Justin led services last summer as well and does a fine job. He should consider going into ministry in my opinion.
 
Mary jo keddy is wonderful. Looking forward to her new book and event at five oaks in the fall.

I forgot church had moved to 10 and didn't make it
 
Our minister spoke on Beringia and rising waters, etc. ... including addendum about how professional mortals think they are experts when they are not ... considering what is missing insubstantial form ... and in material spirit it is just essence of observation ... but determinate individuals can't see it ...

These may include lawyers, doctors, scientists, engineers ... even misplaced meta physicists .... those fallen out of the O' logy ... or as logos not having a good understanding of ambiguity and plurality of all permeating immateriality as heats do pass into the night from the Dai ... it may impress the psyche ... which is often evident of something that isn't and thus the incarnate soul ... appearing as isn't ... or just differing ...

It is stated in the lens of mind things may invert ... but often things are looked at apart from the processing portion ... fractured by emotions? Thus divine deviations of appearances as they come and go ... by quirks of the Black Body Reflector Theory ... a hypothesis poorly understood too ... due to discoloration in the abstract form thereof ... black being absent! It just can't be ... a philosophical near Mrs. ... in nigh or lei terms a dark flowering of those toxic plants from Beringia ... that could poison the intentions of the kiang ... a determinate horse of a different shade ...

Determinate believe in nothing beyond what is expertly fixed professionally ... yet often imperfectly engineered to allow for muting ... then observers are quieted and think about the question ... it may extend in a dark streak ... as human caste ...

Tis the Holocene period ... just not much there to gather from those that believe they know everything ... ohm agog ... that enough to choke a mule ...
 
My favourite church related event is meditating, communing, immersing in the natural world. Gentle sounds of birds - singing and flying, leaves moving in the breeze, grasses swishing in the same breeze, small creatures rustling in the undergrowth, a chuckling brook, sunlight dancing on water. So many things that weren't made by humans. So many wondrous things no human has the knowledge to create.

A time to be still and know that I'm not god.

A time to recognise that the natural world (including us) is everchanging as a flower dies and another blooms.

A time to accept that his awesomeness continues totally without my input!
 
hi Jae, not sure if you are being a jerk, or just tired this morning.

So, hard you read the thread you would have seen that YouJustNever know had posted re Mary Jo Leddy.
Had you google searched Mary Jo Keddy, google would have said do you mean "mary Jo Leddy".

Of course, it was a typo on my behalf; however, should you still fail to be able to find information about her, here you go.

Mary Jo Leddy - Wikipedia

Here is a link to an interview of her
Interview with Mary Jo Leddy


Here is a you-tube video

 
Pinga said:
hi Jae, not sure if you are being a jerk, or just tired this morning.

So, hard you read the thread you would have seen that YouJustNever know had posted re Mary Jo Leddy.
Had you google searched Mary Jo Keddy, google would have said do you mean "mary Jo Leddy".

Of course, it was a typo on my behalf; however, should you still fail to be able to find information about her, here you go.

Mary Jo Leddy - Wikipedia

Here is a link to an interview of her
Interview with Mary Jo Leddy
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Didn't read YJNK's post about MJL (You did say in your post, "Mary jo keddy is wonderful." - good on you for here owning up to your typo.) I will now look for MJL instead. My bad - Google did ask me if I meant Mary Jo Leddy, however I did not notice that. Could be a result of my having just woken up from a nap.

Having just read the interview, I did like what Leddy had to say in it.
 
Sunday, July 1 is Canada Day for most of the country. Here in NL, it is also Memorial Day. We commemorate the near annihilation of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel.

Because of that, we decided to forgo our regular Sunday worship service so that we could join the rest of the community down at the Cenotaph in Brigus. Which makes sense most of the names on the Cenotaph are names that we have memorialized in our Church as they were our members at the time.

The Legion Chaplain was holding services in his congregation so I was the only clergy on hand for the occasion and I agreed to lead in prayer and offer a benediction. As always the service was somber and it was obvious that all these years later the scars still ache when probed.

What was different this year from previous celebrations was that Brigus itself did not suspend Canada Day festivities while the Memorial Service was being held. In fact, a request from the Legion for that consideration was rejected by the Town and the Canada Day Committee. No idea why. That decision will leave marks of its own I suppose.
 
revjohn said:
Sunday, July 1 is Canada Day for most of the country. Here in NL, it is also Memorial Day. We commemorate the near annihilation of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel.

Because of that, we decided to forgo our regular Sunday worship service so that we could join the rest of the community down at the Cenotaph in Brigus. Which makes sense most of the names on the Cenotaph are names that we have memorialized in our Church as they were our members at the time.

The Legion Chaplain was holding services in his congregation so I was the only clergy on hand for the occasion and I agreed to lead in prayer and offer a benediction. As always the service was somber and it was obvious that all these years later the scars still ache when probed.

What was different this year from previous celebrations was that Brigus itself did not suspend Canada Day festivities while the Memorial Service was being held. In fact, a request from the Legion for that consideration was rejected by the Town and the Canada Day Committee. No idea why. That decision will leave marks of its own I suppose.
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Yet the powers fail to see what conflict really costs ... thus a temporal life as mortal to learn ho mentally detached we are ...

But only a random few learn ... the rest go by rote ... tis directed by law ...
 
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