{"id":4100,"date":"2022-08-14T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2022-10-18T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:26:15","slug":"pastoral-letter-sunday-august-14-2022-10th-sunday-of-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/14\/pastoral-letter-sunday-august-14-2022-10th-sunday-of-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Letter: Sunday, August 14, 2022 \u2013 10th Sunday of Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"
Please join us for in-person worship Sundays at 10:00 (masks required)<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 Musician, Executive Director of Worship Arts, and friend of Charleswood United Church Jon Buller will be in concert at the Park Theatre this Sunday, August 14 at 7:00 PM. For more information and to purchase tickets please visit: Jon Buller Concert Information<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 The Healing Farm Farmer\u2019s Market in support of Winnipeg\u2019s Yazidi Refugee Community will be held Sunday, August 21 from 9:00 to 12 noon in the parking lot. There will also be a selection of foods from local sustainable producers and a few craft tables sharing the space. Farmer’s Market Poster \u2022 Vacation Church School is returning August 31 and September 1. Please select this link for more information and don\u2019t forget to tell your young friends.<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 Mission and Social Action Committee School Supply Drive for families in need.<\/div>\r\n
Throughout the summer we will be collecting school supplies from the list provided.<\/div>\r\n
Feel free to drop off Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 2:00.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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Dear Friends,<\/p>\r\n

Welcome to worship for Sunday, August 14, 2022.<\/p>\r\n

I have just returned from four weeks of holidays and am freshly reminded of the blessings of a break. This year I chose to do something on holidays that I have not been able to do for longer than I can remember. I chose to go to the same church three Sundays in a row. I was fairly intentional about this. Since worship has been so disrupted since March 2020, it was good to be reminded of the practice and blessings of the routine of attending worship week after week. And I have always held that \u2018attending worship\u2019 is a lot different than \u2018leading worship\u2019 though of course there are many points of intersection.<\/p>\r\n

So my experiment went a little like this. I would choose a church in which I would be comfortable. Now is not the time for experimenting with \u2018the latest thing.\u2019 I would choose a church where I would not know anyone and no one would know me. I just wanted to slip in the back and take it in. I would choose a church where the liturgy would be familiar and comforting and I wouldn\u2019t be constantly tempted to steal a good idea or think to myself \u201cthat\u2019s not how we do it.\u201d So for three weeks I became\u2026an Anglican!!! And I\u2019m glad I did. The congregation was warm but not overly familiar (no one tried to sign me up for a committee). They were quite engaged by the service which made it easy for a visitor to follow along. And while I cannot say that many of the hymns were known to me, the congregation carried the singing quite well. I suppose I would call it quite formal in the sense that it felt like a service would be at any time of the year and not altered for summer. The congregation were casually dressed but the priests, musicians, and leaders were all fully gowned (did I mention the church had air conditioning?). I may be a little critical in this regard but I would say the preaching ranged from blissfully short to quite good (there were three different preachers as it appears Anglican priests get summer vacation too!!!).<\/p>\r\n

But what I appreciated above all was the rhythm of the whole experience. A congregation gathered in the same room at the same time each week. A familiar flow of welcome, song, prayer, scripture, and sacrament. A pattern to the day which helped create a pattern for my week. It was clearly a progressive community but gathered in a traditional format which I found encouraging, comforting, and inspiring. All in all a reassuring reminder that worship matters if only to slow us down in an ever speeding world. An opportunity to once again explore the touchstone of our being and be blessed by it. \u201cRemember the Sabbath and keep it holy\u201d is the wise advice of ancient Israel and although that seems like something increasingly forgotten, it is no less important.<\/p>\r\n

There are actually three different forms of Sabbath rest in Israel\u2019s understanding. One day in seven to rest. One year every seven for the land. And a jubilee at the end of seven sabbaticals, or 49 years, for all debts to be forgiven and the community to start anew. But it all starts with a willingness to accept the break that worship offers. At least, that\u2019s what the Anglican in me believes.<\/p>\r\n

Grace and peace,<\/p>\r\n

Michael<\/p>\r\n

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This coming Friday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is more commonly known as Orange Shirt Day to honour the story of Phyllis Webstad who brought a new orange t-shirt to her Residential School in 1973 when she was six years old only to have it taken from her. 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