Featured - December 2024 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-december-2024/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:55:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://faithtides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Faith-Tides-Icon-32x32.png Featured - December 2024 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-december-2024/ 32 32 207835967 May Christ be born anew https://faithtides.ca/may-christ-be-born-anew/ https://faithtides.ca/may-christ-be-born-anew/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:48:10 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=175627 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.” (Mark 13:8) As we finish one Christian year and begin another, I am struck with the violence of the Biblical texts and how the texts […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/may-christ-be-born-anew/feed/ 0 175627 Lay leadership in worship course to run in spring 2025 https://faithtides.ca/lay-leadership-in-worship-course-to-run-in-spring-2025/ https://faithtides.ca/lay-leadership-in-worship-course-to-run-in-spring-2025/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:47:22 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=175634 Many of the parishes in the diocese are “in transition” and do not necessarily have a priest to celebrate the eucharist each Sunday. Additionally, parishes are rediscovering the daily office and considering ways to have lay-led weekday services. Lay-led services are an opportunity for renewal: to encourage lay people to live into the vows they […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/lay-leadership-in-worship-course-to-run-in-spring-2025/feed/ 0 175634 Churches in the diocese host a year of prayer in the style of Taizé https://faithtides.ca/churches-in-the-diocese-host-a-year-of-prayer-in-the-style-of-taize/ https://faithtides.ca/churches-in-the-diocese-host-a-year-of-prayer-in-the-style-of-taize/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:46:52 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=175641 This year, three churches in the diocese hosted prayer in the style of Taizé, as part of an effort by ecumenical churches to bring this style of worship to new neighborhoods and new churches in Victoria. Prayer in the style of Taizé had been offered on a three-month rotation at churches of different denominations throughout […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/churches-in-the-diocese-host-a-year-of-prayer-in-the-style-of-taize/feed/ 0 175641 What price, a blanket? https://faithtides.ca/what-price-a-blanket/ https://faithtides.ca/what-price-a-blanket/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:45:39 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=175644 I am on a trip from Canada to the UK, where most members of my family live. I walk into my cousin’s family room, where I notice a blanket hanging across the back of the sofa. It looks familiar, grey with a tartan pattern in watermelon-red. Can this be the blanket that I had taken […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/what-price-a-blanket/feed/ 0 175644 Baby Jesus in a walnut shell https://faithtides.ca/baby-jesus-in-a-walnut-shell/ https://faithtides.ca/baby-jesus-in-a-walnut-shell/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:44:02 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=175629 In the weeks before Christmas, many years ago, a little girl in my extended family pleaded with her mother for a My Little Pony. You might remember those pastel, plastic ponies with pink and green manes and tails, complete with tiny brushes and combs. It was her heart’s desire. Her family was financially challenged at […]

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