{"id":4272,"date":"2022-10-23T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:41:15","slug":"pastoral-letter-sunday-october-23rd-peace-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/23\/pastoral-letter-sunday-october-23rd-peace-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral Letter: Sunday, October 23, 2022 \u2013 Peace Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Watch this week\u2019s service on YouTube by clicking: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6hF7Yg0-y_o\">October 23 Worship Service Video <\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Please join us for in-person worship Sundays at 10:00 (masks recommended) By action of Church Council, the official policy of Charleswood United Church is now that masks and social distancing are recommended but not required. This is a positive step in our cautious return to \u2018normal\u2019. We continue to be grateful for the resolve of this congregation to support one another, and look to the good of others, ever since this public health crisis began.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Our newest video for children video is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/spfCY5KMQTg\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/spfCY5KMQTg <\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Join us after church on Sundays for Hebrew\u2019s Caf\u00e9, coffee and fellowship following worship in the Van Roon Community Hall<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Hurricane Fiona Relief Donations through the Red Cross are currently being matched 2X by the Government of Canada. For more information click: Red Cross Hurricane Fiona Relief.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Did you know you can support this ministry by PayPal\/Visa, e-transfer, automatic withdrawal, and gifted securities, in addition to weekly or monthly cheques? For Offering Information please visit: www.charleswoodunited.org\/support<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"small-body\">Thank you for your generous support.<\/div>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\r\n<p>Welcome to worship for Sunday, October 23, 2022. It wasn\u2019t my intention at the beginning of the week but an obituary in the paper the other day caused me to start thinking about sacred space. It was the midweek notice of the death of acclaimed Franco-Manitoban architect Etienne Gaboury.<\/p>\r\n<p>Mr. Gaboury was most familiar to me as the architect who designed Precious Blood (or Pr\u00e9cieux Sang) Roman Catholic Church. It is the unmistakeable teepee shaped church that one can notice to the left off of St. Mary\u2019s Rd in the borderlands between St. Boniface and St. Vital. What I found out in reading about him last week is just how many Winnipeg and Manitoba landmarks are the result of his long and distinguished career. Including many churches, half a dozen of which I have been in without knowing their common origin.<\/p>\r\n<p>To some the idea of sacred space is a bit of an anachronism. Why would anyone set aside space for worship alone with the potential that it only gets used one day a week, and for just over one hour at that? For the last twenty years, nearly every new church building project I have heard of, across all denominations, has had \u2018multi-purpose\u2019 as its rallying cry. Which is not to say there is anything wrong with that. It could not be more appropriate to worship in the same space where one gathers, celebrates, sings, plays, even eats. Communion takes its inspiration from early Christian communities who gathered around a table to \u2018tell the story and share a meal.\u2019<\/p>\r\n<p>However, I have always enjoyed visiting and experiencing different worship places. That includes those rushed tours of gothic cathedrals, ecumenical and interfaith experiences in Winnipeg and beyond, small beautiful prairie churches dotting the landscape, and maybe most of all, the churches and worship places of my friends. I add this last one because sacred space is not all about beauty or magnificently designed works of architecture.<\/p>\r\n<p>Space is made sacred by the hearts and intentions of those who gather therein. A beautiful church is largely, mostly, a matter of how endearing it is to those who worship there. If someone experiences depth of meaning and closeness of community, if songs are sung and prayers are prayed, then any church can be a cathedral of the heart.<\/p>\r\n<p>One of Etienne Gaboury\u2019s legacies was that he took the form of sacred space to heart and felt that it ought not solely be directed to God, but should somehow connect with the region in which it was located, the people who are part of that region. In the case of Precious Blood, which is unique and inviting and beautiful, the fact that it is teepee shaped and home to a French-Canadian congregation near St. Boniface, the birthplace of the M\u00e9tis Nation, is not a coincidence. It\u2019s a way of saying that this particular church belongs in this particular place. It would look out of place almost anywhere else in the world. But here, it is nearly perfect.<\/p>\r\n<p>I am grateful for the people of Charleswood who sought to have sacred space in this neighbourhood one hundred years ago. What they began has become our home, our sanctuary, our place of peace.<\/p>\r\n<p>Grace and peace,<\/p>\r\n<p>Michael<\/p>\r\n<p>For news and events please have a look at Life &amp; Work.<\/p>\r\n<p>Read this week\u2019s scripture lesson here: Jeremiah 31:27-34<\/p>\r\n<p>Please consider support for the flood devastated people of Pakistan ( Red Cross &#8211; Pakistan, Foodgrains Bank &#8211; Pakistan ) or the war displaced people of Ukraine ( Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Mennonite Central Committee, or Canadian Red Cross )<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Phyllis\u2019 story is but an entrance into the history and legacy of the Residential School System in Canada and a reminder of our collective responsibility to work for reconciliation today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pastoral-letters"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pastoral Letter: Sunday, October 23, 2022 \u2013 Peace Sunday - Charleswood United Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastoral letter Sunday September 25, 2022\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/charleswoodunited.org\/2022_charleswoodunited\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/23\/pastoral-letter-sunday-october-23rd-peace-sunday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pastoral Letter: Sunday, October 23, 2022 \u2013 Peace Sunday - 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