Sunday February 23, 2020
Transfiguration Sunday
Communion Service
Annual Meetings
This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday, the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten Season. The Lenten Season is one of contemplation, reflection, and a concerted effort to deepen our faith, to reflect on our faith journey, and to seek a new way to live that faith out in our every day lives. Seemingly, this is more and more difficult in the world. But never the less, it must be attempted if we are to continue following in the way of love, which is the Christian way.
This Sunday we share communion together in our service. But also as we sit and eat together. Primrose begins the day with breakfast. Lunch is offered at Trinity. We hope you will join us for a time of reflection, refreshment, and an update on what is going in within our churches, and without them as well.
This Sunday we share communion together in our service. But also as we sit and eat together. Primrose begins the day with breakfast. Lunch is offered at Trinity. We hope you will join us for a time of reflection, refreshment, and an update on what is going in within our churches, and without them as well.
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Please note that both our churches are having their annual meetings this week.
Above is a digital copy of our annual report and our annual financial report. Primrose is meeting for breakfast. Trinity is meeting for lunch. Read the reports. And come with an open mind and an open heart. Always the best way to be anyway. PRIMROSE AND TRINITY ANNUAL MEETING PRIMROSE: February 23rd, 8am at Karin and Wally's place. TRINITY: February 23rd, 1 pm, after service and lunch provided. |
FEBRUARY 26TH, 7 PM, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH. ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE, JOINT COMMUNION SERVICE WITH ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH |
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As a Lenten Study we will be working from Macrina Wiederkehr's book, Seven Sacred Pauses each Tuesday through the Lenten Season. You can order this book on line if you want a kindle version of it from Amazon for $14. Regular copies are $24. I can order them in a batch, so let me know if you want a copy. It is an invaluable resource for spiritual practice. But you do not have to have a book to come to the Lenten Study and prayer time.
10 am in the morning. 7 pm in the evening. March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7, and April 11, Holy Saturday |
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WORLD DAY OF PRAYER, FRIDAY MARCH 6TH
St. Paul's Anglican Church, 312 Owen Sound Street. 2 pm. World Day of Prayer is a global ecumenical movement led by Christian women who welcome you to join in prayer and action for peace and justice. For more information, visit the World Day of Prayer Website. |
Sunday February 9, 2020
This is the fifth Sunday of ordinary time as we consider two well known pieces of scripture in Isaiah 58 and Matthew 5. Why do we lose our saltiness? Why do we hide our light under a bushel basket?
Why do we think we can live in the spirit and disregard the law?
Why do we think we can walk outside the laws of the Hebrew Scriptures when Jesus is clear
we must not only up hold the law, but rise above it in righteousness?
We consider these questions this Sunday.
We offer enlightened education and spiritual nourishment for the real world
and for the world we want to make real.
Hope you will join us.
Why do we think we can live in the spirit and disregard the law?
Why do we think we can walk outside the laws of the Hebrew Scriptures when Jesus is clear
we must not only up hold the law, but rise above it in righteousness?
We consider these questions this Sunday.
We offer enlightened education and spiritual nourishment for the real world
and for the world we want to make real.
Hope you will join us.
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In celebrating the World Interfaith Harmony Week’s 5th Anniversary, we produced, in collaboration with Sami Yusuf and Andante Records, the World’s first Interfaith Anthem, The Gift of Love. The lyrics of the song are based on the Two Commandments of ‘Love of God, and Love of the Neighbour.’
The music video is Directed by Siros Kerdouni @ Shadow Pictures Limited. Filmed on location in Jordan and in East Jerusalem, the video beautifully captures some of the symbolic sites in Jordan, including the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, the Citadel, the Holy Baptism Site, Petra, and Wadi Rum; with exclusive shots also filmed in Jerusalem. The idea of the video draws on all faiths, no matter the belief, in coming together to express the message of love. |
Marvellous photograph above from Brazilian environmentalist and award wining photographer Sebastião Salgado from a documentary created about him called 'Salt of the Earth.' "Salgado's work explores natural environments and the humans who inhabit them. His
black and white photographs illuminate how the environment and humans are exploited to maximize profit for the global economic market." See his TED talk on his life photographing 'the salt of the earth' and the earth itself.
World Interfaith Anthem Lyrics
Love to give! To give is love, And love the gift, The gift of love. No belief! Without the love, Believe in love! The belief of love. None of you truly believes until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself. None of you truly believes until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself. [A saying of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)] Love to give! The gift of love, Give the other, All your love. What a relief! To give my love, I am now you, And you are my love! |
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH, 6:30 - 8:30. SECOND SATURDAY MULTI FAITH DINNER AND CONVERSATION We discover our own deep human commonality in conversation with others. In this week set aside by the United Nations as World Multi Faith Harmony Week, perhaps you would like to come along for dinner and conversation with others of various faith traditions. Bella Carter and I are your hosts. Here's the invite: "Potluck!! Rev. Dr. Candice Bist and I invite you for interfaith dialogue seeking common ground where we belong without borders on the second Saturday of each month. There will be hospitable, safe space to explore our mutual desire for peace and to share spiritual practices. People of all faiths, non-faiths and cultures invited. Sat, Feb 8th, 2020 at 6:30pm. Location: Trinity United Church, Shelburne Please rsvp at shailacarter@gmail.com. |
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Sunday February 2, 2020
This is the fourth Sunday of ordinary time coming after the day of epiphany and still basking in its glow.
As we spoke about last week, it is an epiphany of sorts to discover that the bulk of our Christian year consists of what we call 'ordinary time' - that is the get-up-in-the-morning-and-go-about-your-day-regular living-season, which is the real test of our faith. This day our lectionary points us to both The Beatitudes - where Jesus offers an alternative viewing of so called reality - and to Micah 6: 1 - 8, where God tells us exactly what he requires - justice, love, and humility. From our country prophet, Micah, comes the bare bones of divine teaching, offering us a simple formula for living a worthy and rich life.
As we spoke about last week, it is an epiphany of sorts to discover that the bulk of our Christian year consists of what we call 'ordinary time' - that is the get-up-in-the-morning-and-go-about-your-day-regular living-season, which is the real test of our faith. This day our lectionary points us to both The Beatitudes - where Jesus offers an alternative viewing of so called reality - and to Micah 6: 1 - 8, where God tells us exactly what he requires - justice, love, and humility. From our country prophet, Micah, comes the bare bones of divine teaching, offering us a simple formula for living a worthy and rich life.
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Sunday January 26, 2020
This is the Third Sunday after Epiphany, which is both the season of Epiphany as celebrated in the Protestant tradition, and the beginning of what is known as Ordinary Time, in the Catholic tradition. Following the story of Jesus' transformative baptismal experience, we reflect on those who, hearing Jesus speak, follow him without hesitation. "In this slice of Ordinary Time that is also an extended celebration of Epiphany, we are called, like Peter and Andrew, to follow Jesus and, in following him, to listen to him as he commands repentance and proclaims the good news of the kingdom. No bright stars. No earthquakes. Just a voice that strikes our ear amid the ordinariness of our lives and announces that God is among us." David Toole
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“Our hearts are restless, till we rest in thee.” Augustine What then does it mean to be a Christian? Peter Rollins: It means entering into a journey of becoming one. It does not mean accepting a worldview but rather entering into a healing journey of life.. To be a Christian also means that one is committed to exploring this life through the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with it, learning from it, and being transformed by it. Being a Christian means learning how to be the opening of life into the world. For the full interview: https://internetmonk.com/archive/peter-rollins-on-orthodoxy-doxology-and-the-end-of-religion |
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TODAY January 12th Primrose and Trinity Services Cancelled
We have decided to cancel today's service at Trinity.
Primrose was already cancelled for the morning.
So stay home and enjoy some peace and quiet in the warmth and safety of your homes, with prayers of gratitude for what we take as normal, but which others may not have.
We were to read Psalm 40 this morning in the version written by Christian scholar and teacher Eugene Peterson from his modern interpretation, The Message. Peterson's interpretation of the Psalms was much loved by Bono, Irish singer/song writer and lead vocalist of U2. Here below is a wonderful short documentary of Bono and Eugene Peterson meeting and talking about the Psalms at Peterson's home. It is a beautiful meeting of minds, and a great personal discussion about the language of the psalms, which often combine petulance and violence in alarming ways.
And just for fun I am sending you a video of U2 closing a big concert tour with Bono's original interpretation of Psalm 40,
called, well, '40.' And Peterson's interpretation of the psalm in The Message. It should be noted that Peterson worked from the original language - Hebrew - and then brought that ancient language right into everyday 21st century language.
The photo above was taken by Jennifer and Gary Shaver of the icy destruction on their front lawn in Shelburne this morning.
As Jennifer says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....
Enjoy.
Candice
Primrose was already cancelled for the morning.
So stay home and enjoy some peace and quiet in the warmth and safety of your homes, with prayers of gratitude for what we take as normal, but which others may not have.
We were to read Psalm 40 this morning in the version written by Christian scholar and teacher Eugene Peterson from his modern interpretation, The Message. Peterson's interpretation of the Psalms was much loved by Bono, Irish singer/song writer and lead vocalist of U2. Here below is a wonderful short documentary of Bono and Eugene Peterson meeting and talking about the Psalms at Peterson's home. It is a beautiful meeting of minds, and a great personal discussion about the language of the psalms, which often combine petulance and violence in alarming ways.
And just for fun I am sending you a video of U2 closing a big concert tour with Bono's original interpretation of Psalm 40,
called, well, '40.' And Peterson's interpretation of the psalm in The Message. It should be noted that Peterson worked from the original language - Hebrew - and then brought that ancient language right into everyday 21st century language.
The photo above was taken by Jennifer and Gary Shaver of the icy destruction on their front lawn in Shelburne this morning.
As Jennifer says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....
Enjoy.
Candice
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Psalm 40 (The Message)
I waited and waited and waited for God.
At last he looked; finally he listened.
He lifted me out of the ditch,
pulled me from deep mud.
He stood me up on a solid rock
to make sure I wouldn’t slip.
He taught me how to sing the latest God-song,
a praise-song to our God.
More and more people are seeing this:
they enter the mystery,
abandoning themselves to God.
4-5 Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God,
turn your backs on the world’s “sure thing,”
ignore what the world worships;
The world’s a huge stockpile
of God-wonders and God-thoughts.
Nothing and no one
comes close to you!
I start talking about you, telling what I know,
and quickly run out of words.
Neither numbers nor words
account for you.
6 Doing something for you, bringing something to you--
that’s not what you’re after.
Being religious, acting pious--
that’s not what you’re asking for.
You’ve opened my ears
so I can listen.
7-8 So I answered, “I’m coming.
I read in your letter what you wrote about me,
And I’m coming to the party
you’re throwing for me.”
That’s when God’s Word entered my life,
became part of my very being.
9-10 I’ve preached you to the whole congregation,
I’ve kept back nothing, God—you know that.
I didn’t keep the news of your ways
a secret, didn’t keep it to myself.
I told it all, how dependable you are, how thorough.
I didn’t hold back pieces of love and truth
For myself alone. I told it all,
let the congregation know the whole story.
11-12 Now God, don’t hold out on me,
don’t hold back your passion.
Your love and truth
are all that keeps me together.
When troubles ganged up on me,
a mob of sins past counting,
I was so swamped by guilt
I couldn’t see my way clear.
More guilt in my heart than hair on my head,
so heavy the guilt that my heart gave out.
13-15 Soften up, God, and intervene;
hurry and get me some help,
So those who are trying to kidnap my soul
will be embarrassed and lose face,
So anyone who gets a kick out of making me miserable
will be heckled and disgraced,
So those who pray for my ruin
will be booed and jeered without mercy.
16-17 But all who are hunting for you--
oh, let them sing and be happy.
Let those who know what you’re all about
tell the world you’re great and not quitting.
And me? I’m a mess. I’m nothing and have nothing:
make something of me.
You can do it; you’ve got what it takes--
but God, don’t put it off.
The Shelburne/Primrose Pastoral Charge partners with
Partera Peace Builders International, The Shelburne Farmer's Market,
First Line for Syria, Soup Haus, KAIROS, and the Quiet Garden Movement.
We support the work of the UCC Mission and Service and are part of the
Dufferin Moves initiative in Dufferin County.
We are supportive of the work of Streams Community Hub
We continue to look for partners and friends who are offering a
compassionate presence to the community and an uplifting and creative spirit.
Call or email if we can be of any help to you.
shelburne.primrose.uc@gmail.com / 519 925 2233
Partera Peace Builders International, The Shelburne Farmer's Market,
First Line for Syria, Soup Haus, KAIROS, and the Quiet Garden Movement.
We support the work of the UCC Mission and Service and are part of the
Dufferin Moves initiative in Dufferin County.
We are supportive of the work of Streams Community Hub
We continue to look for partners and friends who are offering a
compassionate presence to the community and an uplifting and creative spirit.
Call or email if we can be of any help to you.
shelburne.primrose.uc@gmail.com / 519 925 2233
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