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A Tender New Year

Catherine Smith2021-01-03T08:42:17-04:00Categories: Reflections|Tags: 2021, Greetings, Hope, New Year, Tenderness|

As we pass over the threshold between yearsI hope for you, tenderness;that you become tenderness. Tender with your longings,tender with the things that are still impossible.Tender. [...]

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A Hymn for Palm Sunday

Catherine Smith2020-04-04T13:48:24-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Hiddenness, Hope, Jesus journey to Jerusalem, longing, Palm Sunday|

"and when the silence rises new / draw us more deeply into You."

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Longest Night ~ Tears and Blessing

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:17-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: blessing, Blue Christmas, grief, Hope, Longest Night|

  You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle.  Psalm 56   Sometimes we are gathering words for a [...]

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The Heart in it

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:39-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: community, Connection, Holy Week Tuesday, Hope, Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, prayer, Vigil|

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP) No shape of wood or even [...]

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The Eyes of the Heart

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:10-04:00Categories: Lent|Tags: Cosmos, Eyes of our Heart, healing, Hope, Lent Four, seeing, Visio Divina|

    Last week we practiced Visio Divina, Sacred Seeing, allowing ourselves to be called through a curve or a cloud or a colour deep into [...]

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Hanging by a thread

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:30-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: anxiety, church, creativity, future of the church, Hope, Transfiguration|

  Thinking about church and the transfiguration I found a piece of conversation jangling around in my mind like loose change in a pocket.  It was [...]

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A Thousand Hosts

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:31-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: compassion, election, Hope, hospitality, neighbour|

Today steadfastly we tie bright ribbons to our hearts so hope can find a way. We scatter folded cranes of peace each crease hard won. We [...]

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In the deepening darkness

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:57-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: death, Good Friday, Hope, love|

This morning we got up went about our morning routines came out into the drizzle and sat in a gentle, ordinary space ~ We bear witness [...]

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Hearts Like Cups

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:58-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: catching the stars, courage, Epiphany, gifts, hearts, Hope, prayer|

Arise, lift up your hearts and shine, For God's brightness is covering us. God, holding out to us gifts, gifts of the star-child: courage for love [...]

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Hallows Eve

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: All Saints, blessing, community, Hope, Inclusion, time|

Coming to this all hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention to the permeable fabric of time. It is a potent time in which [...]

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