by Marian McGrath | Jun 25, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
Our existence is an incredible bustle and brouhaha. In the course of time, it develops its own set of laws. With time, we can no longer stop; the bustle prevents us from living. Even a vacation can be subject to the same insistent demands of speed, movement, and...
by Marian McGrath | Jun 5, 2023 | Community
Saturday, June 10, 2023 1:00 – 3:30 p.m Start at Saint Mary Magdalene Anglican Church 537 Autoroute 105, Chelsea, Québec. A meditative walk led by Gilbert Whiteduck of Kitigan Zibi aims to raise awareness of the history of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in this region. The...
by Marian McGrath | Jun 5, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
If you know the musical Godspell or at least its songs you will recall that the final number is called, “Long Live God.” As the play is usually staged the rigid body of Jesus – his arms stretched out as if on a cross – is held aloft on the shoulders of a chorus...
by Marian McGrath | May 30, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
There is something like the miracle of Pentecost in modern Israel where the revived Hebrew tongue – long a dead language except for study of the Bible and Talmud – can be heard. In the book of Acts the reversal of the proliferated tongues at the Tower of Babel is...
by Marian McGrath | May 21, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
Today is an interesting day in the Christian calendar. We get it from Luke, the man who invented Pentecost. Christian Pentecost, I mean, for as a second spring harvest festival fifty days after Passover Pentecost had a long Jewish history. Since Luke alone reports...
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