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Epiphany Hymn

Catherine Smith2020-02-25T10:30:36-04:00Categories: Epiphany, Uncategorized|Tags: Epiphany, Let There Be Light, light, Light and darkness|

Light and the dark dancing with one another […]

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Starlight and Slippers

Catherine Smith2020-12-30T15:37:52-04:00Categories: Sermons, Uncategorized|Tags: Challenge, Christmas, Epiphany, imagination, magi, Matthew 1:1-12, risk, story, wisemen, worldview|

  Matthew 2:1-12 There was an Epiphany that found me travelling home from a small town the other side of Toronto.  I carried, along with all [...]

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Table Church

Catherine Smith2020-09-30T17:06:41-03:00Categories: Resources for Our Gathered Life, Rural Ministries, Uncategorized|Tags: lay leadership, Mustard seed, Pandemic, small church, small group, Worship|

Something as small as mustard seed. Why Table Church? To be vital in our living and our dying as individuals and as congregations we need to [...]

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Our Speechless Hearts

Catherine Smith2020-08-14T08:35:01-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Faith formation, listening, Ritual, Silence, spiritual practice, threshold, Touchstones|

Intentional silence is not a retreat into some private piety. Nor is it passive. It is a rugged and sometimes ragged discipline of turning over and [...]

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Summer Lectio: A sacred reading of your summer

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:18-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: creativity, Integration, Lectio Divina, Summer|

  Just through the farthest kitchen window this morning I saw the first turned leaf.  Seeing it there through glass and across the room I felt [...]

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For those who fish ~ blessing, song, and ritual

Catherine Smith2020-10-01T16:10:55-03:00Categories: Prayers, Resources for Our Gathered Life, Uncategorized|Tags: blessing, fishing, liturgy|

Blessings for those who fish at the opening of the season.

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A Pentecost Hymn for Times of Pandemic

Catherine Smith2020-10-01T16:11:55-03:00Categories: Hymns, Resources for Our Gathered Life, Uncategorized|Tags: Churches, Hymn, pentecost, Physical Distancing, transformation|

On Pentecost they gatheredwhile we are still apart;we dedicate the distance,we hold it in our hearts. […]

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Giving

Catherine Smith2020-05-05T19:14:58-03:00Categories: Reflections, Rural Ministries, Uncategorized|Tags: church, community, Congregation, Faith Community, Giving, Offering, Online worship, Pandemic, Physical Distancing|

I love this tiny hand touching the heart of things. I can almost imagine the pavement softening touched by these fingers. It made me think of [...]

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“Your life has lived in me”

Catherine Smith2020-04-21T09:56:21-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: blue ribbons, candles, care, gestures, grief, holy, love, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia tragedy, together|

Last night many lit candles to join their hearts around those grieving after the terrible massacre in Nova Scotia.  Hearts and ribbons, flowers, and people kneeling [...]

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Tech, Touch, and Thomas

Catherine Smith2020-04-19T18:48:19-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Coronovirus, doubt, Embodiment, New Creation, resurrection, Thomas|

upslash “I’ll post a sermon on Thomas”, I said to my congregation – “a sermon from another time which moves in and out of the text [...]

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