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This past Sunday at St. George's the topic of my sermon was justice. Justice is, for me, a basic value of fairness and equality. It is a place where we should begin life and end life. Of course, as we all find out, life is not like that. Justice is something hard to find and injustice is too often where we find ourselves. Human frailty and the ease with which we fall to selfish greed and pride,

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When the current stone church was built in 1878, the peaks of the stone walls on the east and west ends of the nave were adorned each with a stone cross, as was the stone wall of the entrance to the church basement on the Guelph Street side. These crosses are visible in many of the early photographs of St. George’s. In 1921, the sanctuary of the church was extended and the cross that was placed

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I am posting the pdf file of a survey we are circulating to all parishioners, so that anyone who needs a copy can get it from here as well. I realize that you would probably have to print it out to answer it and submit it, and that does seem a bit counter-productive as no trees would be saved in the process. I would be interested in anyone who might be able to give me a better solution to

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Back in April, the youth of St. George’s were invited to participate in an event held here overnight called Off the Grid. It is a program developed by The PWRDF, to help increase the awareness of our youth of the serious global issues faced by our planet and all the things that are living on it. As part of the event the youth were encouraged to think about the many ways we use God’s creation, and

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As a special way to mark the coming of the summer is the annual church picnic. With the arrival of the Rev'd Nancy Rowe, as part time assistant priest at St. George's, it was decided that St. George's should have a picnic together with St. Paul's, Norval, where Nancy, as rector, is also the priest in charge. So on Sunday June 15th, at St. Paul's in Norval, at 10:30 am we are having a church

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When the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream in the very first chapter of Matthew’s Gospel the angel told Joseph that of his son would that “they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us”” (Verse 23). God is with us. This is the promise and the strength of Jesus Christ. We find strength and hope in the knowledge that God is with us, that God walks beside us, that God

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When time is getting short for Jesus’ earthly ministry, Jesus begins to try to prepare the disciples for his departure. Understandably, his disciples don't really take it too well. Even thought they have been there the whole way,they have not quite grasped fully whom Jesus is and what he has been chosen to do. They are anxious about Jesus’ talk about leaving. They are uncertain about the future

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Henriette Thompson is a person of great faith and has a strong sense of ministry in living out her Christian Faith. St. George's is blessed to have Henriette as an active member of our congregation and this article about her work at our Nation Church Office gives us all some insight into the work she does in Christ's name beyond our community and in the larger mission field and the world. In

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Happy Easter! I have to say that trying to communicate the importance of the resurrection is like trying to capture the grandeur of the mountains with a 5x7 photograph. This is because, in some ways, the story of Easter is one that everyone of you know, and have heard most of your life, and so when we say Jesus was raised from the dead, I wonder what real impact that truth has on you. Yep, that

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Palm Sunday Services, March 16 8:00 am - Said Traditional Service 9:30 am - Blessing of the Palms and Communion Service Choir, Church School and Nursery available 10:30 am - Coffee and Fellowship in the Hall 11:15 am - Contemporary Worship led by guitar, piano, and vocals, Nursery Available Maundy Thursday, March 20 5:30 pm

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Hey, guess what? It's snowing. Again. Well, unfortunately, we are canceling the 4pm Messy Church gathering for this afternoon. So, stay inside and have a Hot Chocolate (until it stops and you have to shovel it). But come to Messy Church next month, OK!?!

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I recently saw the Oscar winning movie “A Beautiful Mind” with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly from 2001. It is a story about the life John Nash, a genius mathematician who struggles with the mental illness schizophrenia and about his relationship with his wife Alicia Nash. Although the movie has many elements that make it an excellent movie to watch, it is, at its heart, a Love story. In

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When I reading Gospel story about Nicodemus' visit to Jesus, I connected with Nicodemus, who was very disorientated by Jesus’ ministry and his new teachings. In that story, he comes to Jesus to try and figure things out and get a handle on the new covenant that that Jesus is teaching. But, he is definitely lost. Even as Jesus begins to explain further to him his main purposes, in his

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There are two questions I would like to raise that I have and, I hope, you can reflect on. Both are questions that are appropriate to story of the wise men’s quest, and to the beginning of this New Year of 2008. The first question is where did God found you, in the last year? Or another way of saying it is, at what places or times in our life in the last year was God’s presence been most

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The Nine Lessons and Carols Service scheduled for tonight, Sunday December 16th at 7:30 pm has been canceled due to the weather.

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Christmas Eve Services 5:00 pm – Carols and The Christmas Story (Nursery care provided) 7:00 pm – Worship and Carols, accompanied by guitar and piano (Nursery care provided) 9:00 pm – Worship with Parish Choir 11:00 pm – Traditional Worship and Music Christmas Day 10:00 am – Worship and Carols

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Justice and faith are two important threads that run through both the Old and New Testament of the Bible.. In the Bible, god’s children continually call out in their times of suffering and injustice. With faith in and through prayer, they call out to our God, a God of Justice. A good story of faith and justice is found in Luke Gospel, chapter 18, the story of the persistent widow and the

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There is a story about a man who had a chance to meet God. The man asked the Lord how long a million years was to God. God replied, "It's just like a single second of your time, my child." So the man asked, "And what about a million dollars?" God replied, "To me, it's just like a single penny." So the man gathered himself up and said, "Well, God, could I have one of your pennies?" And God said, "

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In an essay written in 1860, John Ruskin, a social critic, tells a story about wealth and possessions. Ruskin writes about a man who had jumped from a sinking ship. The man, found afterward at the bottom of the ocean, had strapped to his waist a belt with two hundred pounds of gold attached to it. Ruskin asks this question, “Now, as he was sinking -- had he the gold? or had the gold him?” (read

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It is with a deep sense of loss that St. George's says goodbye to Archdeacon John McMulkin, former rector and who has served this parish as Pastoral Archdeacon for the last twenty years. In Christ's Name, Father John cared for many and developed caring relationships with many in our community. A service to celebrate his life and ministry will be held on Monday, May 12 at 11 a.m. at St. George's.

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Jesus says in John's gospel, “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me” but, we must admit that we hear a lot of voices in our day to day life. Voices telling us what we need, what we should buy, and even how we should think. In that great cacophony, how do we recognise Jesus’ voice over the noise of our world? I want to hear the truth over and above what others may want me to

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I have been thinking about the stone that was laid over the entrance to Jesus’ tomb. The Stone was not a door to be opened and closed and opened and closed. Once it was closed, it wasn’t meant to be moved again. It was big and heavy and it was meant to keep the wild animals and carrion birds out. It was to be final and permanent. In the verses leading up to the Easter gospel passage in John

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Sometimes I stop and ask myself why I bother reading or watching the news. It is quite a sad thing these days because so much of what I read or see is about death, dying, fear and suffering. When I read or hear this stuff, I react in so many different ways. Sometimes when I read these stories I feel compassion for those who are hurt, or sometimes I count my blessings that it wasn’t me, or other

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We have all heard of the expression of warning about opening “Pandora’s Box.” The story of Pandora’s Box comes from a story in Greek Mythology and it is a story about a divinely created woman, Pandora, who is sent to be the bride of Epimetheus. Now there are many versions of the mythological story(read here and here), but they all revolve around this box which is not to be opened and Pandora’s

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I can’t help it but when I think about Epiphany and the star that the Wisemen followed, I think about the night sky and the stars and the moon, and space. It was a few months before I was born that Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon. As a kid growing up, space and space flight were one of my favorite things to read about. I was a big fan of movies like Star Wars and TV shows like Buck

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