Advent and Christmas
As we enter the season of Advent and Christmas draws closer, many of us will find ourselves feeling worried or anxious about what Christmas will be like as we continue our pandemic response. Reverend Victoria is available by phone (613-698-6083) or Zoom to listen, talk, and pray with you.
Virtual Social Hour: Time to Talk!
We are physically distanced, muffled by masks. Soon winter will bring ice, snow, freezing rain (and the wonder of those magical first snowflakes). In our isolation, we should not also have to feel separation. What about joining together for an hour each week to talk?
Let’s spend some of our apart time together, until we can again mingle, mask-less, in our beautiful church. We can share stories, concerns, joys, hopes and sorrows, requests for prayers…
There is a way to wander, mix and mingle on Zoom, as well, just as we used to do! You can leave whenever you like!
Hope to "see" you: Thursday, December 10th, 2020 at 5 p.m.
Click here for the Zoom link.
Any questions? Contact Anne Wright: 613-791-5494 anne@change-artistry.com
Would you like to connect with another member of the community but aren’t sure how to reach them? Contact Helen Cathcart at familylibrarian@yahoo.ca, or leave a message on the church answering machine and we’ll make the connection.
We can get through this together!
The deadline for the Christmas edition of The Jubilee is
Sunday, December 13th, 2020. Don't wait for the deadline - send submissions to Heather Matchett any time at hmatchett1@sympatico.ca
Each week of Advent, stones painted with Advent symbols will be available at St. Luke's, St. Martin's, All Saints, and Julian of Norwich and the four parishes will hold each other in prayer. This is offered as a tangible reminder that even as we continue our pandemic response and cannot all join together in person, we can join together in prayer and devotion. The prayer will be included at in-person worship and in the newsletter. The stones will be handled carefully, with pandemic safety protocols in mind.
A "Blue Christmas" Service at St. Luke's
"Blue Christmas" is a gentle, contemplative liturgy for those who are carrying pain or loss in the Christmas season. St. Luke's will offer this service on Sunday, December 20th, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.
A Virtual Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk
A Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk has been recorded in our beloved space at St. Luke's, and is now being edited. It will be available before December 21st, 2020.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
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Love is the way messengers
from the mystery tell us things.
(Rumi)
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Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
(Richard Bach)
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St. Luke's Table has extended its hours to respond to need in the neighbourhood, and is now open Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
St. Luke's Table began operating upstairs on Wednesday this week as construction is set to begin downstairs any day now! Lunch is still being served at Tom Brown Arena, but is also available at St. Luke's. This will save many of our neighbours from having to make their way along to the arena. St. Luke's Table has been serving between 35-50 breakfasts each day, and seeing an average of 80 people for lunch. Meals are kept on hand and heated up for those who are hungry in the afternoon and evening.
In her homily last Sunday, Rev. Victoria described the efforts of Parish and Table as shining a light in the darkness, especially in these pandemic days. May that light shine warm and bright on our corner of Somerset and Bell Streets!
Please continue to keep St. Luke's Table staff and participants in your prayers.
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A PRAYER FOR NEIGHBOURHOODS
God of justice and of joy
I hold before you my neighbourhood
The people who live in the dwellings around me I pray for my neighbours
Those I like and those I struggle to like
Keep them safe and strengthen them for the days ahead
Reveal to me ways to serve my neighbourhood in the midst of this crisis
Help engender community spirit among my neighbours
That through this difficulty we might all help to co-create
A resilient neighbourhood
Empowered by love of neighbour and of stranger
Amen.
(Tim Watson)
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