This week our articles take us on a journey through time with an inspiring figure of the past, climate change-oriented legislations of the present, and an encouraging future should we choose to be doers, not just hearers, or the Word.
The feast of St. Rosa of Viterbo, Italy is celebrated this coming week. She was exiled with her family as a teenager for speaking out against the corruption of the ruling monarchy in the 1200s. With exile being on the minds of anyone paying attention to what is going on in Afghanistan right now, Rosa's story certainly seems currently applicable…
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It is nice to be back with our church community after a few weeks of summer break. Hopefully, the lovely weather and the colourful displays nature has been putting on in gardens, parks, forests, and meadows have been nourishment for eyes and souls.
This week we have the lectionary notes from SALT again, as they have returned from their own summer hiatus. The notes focus on how Jesus's followers react to the miraculous feeding of five thousand. We are challenged to reflect on the true meaning of communion and miracles.
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This week we have two articles from Broadview Magazine. Both speak to how prevalent it has become for faith properties to close after, in some cases, almost two hundred years of providing a space for worship. Both articles, however, also give stories of success and ideas of how to circumvent this disturbing trend.
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This week we would like to feature a fellow Trinity Church member. Lauren Ellen Smith has been doing some very important and exciting international work. Her education and interests have led her to work with the organization World Food Programme (WFP) at the community level to help fight world hunger, and bring about peace to conflict. WFP is the largest humanitarian organization in the world, and the 2020 Peace Novel Laureate recipient.
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Since inviting guest ministers and speakers to our Sunday Services we have had inspirational messages of reaching out to help those in need, working on creating a beloved community, evolving our church in new ways, and taping into the power of our imaginations.
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This year, in light of the unmarked graves of 1323 Indigenous children found thus far at residential schools, many Canadians are pausing to consider what it means to celebrate "Canada Day".
How can we celebrate a nation which is founded upon the conquering and decimation of the Indigenous People who inhabited the "newly found land"?
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This week we reflect on the role faith and science play in our lives.
It is an interesting concept to consider these two aspects in the same breath…
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This Sunday we reflect on the story of how Jesus calmed the storm at sea that threatened to kill all those who sailed upon it. Perhaps the turmoil and fear experienced by the disciples, and the others on the Sea of Galilee at the time, can be related to how many of us feel about the storms threatening our world today. With the acts of racial violence, life with COVID, and climate change destructions, does it not seem as if…
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This week we find ourselves, yet again, faced with an unimaginable tragedy rooted in the mire of racism. Last week at a vigil set up at Fiddle Park for the 215 indigenous children found buried in unmarked graves at a Residential School, people wept and prayed with an Indigenous Elder. This week the Muslim community in Shelburne is offering evenings of prayer to mourn and honour…
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This week it is very difficult to think of anything else other than the tragic and horrific discovery of 215 children found buried at the site of a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. The history of Canada is rife with atrocities against the indigenous inhabitants of the land we call home. What went on at residential schools is only one aspect of this mistreatment.
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Throughout human history, the number 3 has always had a unique significance. The ancient Greeks believed that the number 3 was the perfect number, the number of harmony, wisdom and understanding. It was also the number of time - past, present, and future, - birth, life, and death - beginning, middle, and end.
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This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost. Growing up in Toronto, in a family with Austrian immigrant parents, Pentecost meant a mysterious time when people were suddenly able to speak in foreign tongues, and gorgeous fragrant peonies graced the dining room table. In the hills of Mono peonies will not be blooming by this Sunday, however, the promise of them is evident in the perfectly circular tight buds already forming on the stalks.
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It seems we have arrived at the moment where Spring has hit the point of no return. The dandelions are up, for which the bees are grateful, and the grass has been cut a few times already. As we watch the wonder of the buds, insects, and birds return with colour, buzzing, and song, we simultaneously celebrate Ascension Sunday.
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Loving our mothers isn't isolated to the specifically appointed "Mother's Day", however, perhaps it is important and right to dedicate a moment in time to pause, and appreciate everything a mother does for her family.
Many of us are unable to hug our mothers this Mother's Day, whether because of protectively isolating from her, or because her presence is a dear memory being held closely in our hearts.
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