Featured - February 2023 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-february-2023/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:10:06 +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 - February 2023 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-february-2023/ 32 32 207835967 Recommitting ourselves for Lent https://faithtides.ca/recommitting-ourselves-for-lent/ https://faithtides.ca/recommitting-ourselves-for-lent/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:04:26 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172663 Those in our diocese taking part in the lay leadership in worship course have read Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life. This is an excellent book I come back to often. Every time we enter a new season of the liturgical year, it nudges me toward the fullness and […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/recommitting-ourselves-for-lent/feed/ 0 172663 Companions on El Camino https://faithtides.ca/companions-on-el-camino/ https://faithtides.ca/companions-on-el-camino/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:57:28 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172658 For one enchanted evening a very long time ago, I was one of the Magi — a wise man. My black moustache and beard were part of my older cousin’s makeup kit and my turban was one of my mother’s colourful scarves. I think my all-enveloping outer garment was the dressing gown of some diminutive […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/companions-on-el-camino/feed/ 0 172658 A conversation with Holly Ratcliffe https://faithtides.ca/a-conversation-with-holly-ratcliffe/ https://faithtides.ca/a-conversation-with-holly-ratcliffe/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:56:58 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172653 Holly Ratcliffe wears many hats. Not only is she a theologian, an anthropologist and an associate priest at St George, Montreal, she is also a talented and recognized ceramicist. Holly is currently doing an artist-in-residency at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. Faith Tides had the pleasure to […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/a-conversation-with-holly-ratcliffe/feed/ 0 172653 Halfway back to the light https://faithtides.ca/halfway-back-to-the-light/ https://faithtides.ca/halfway-back-to-the-light/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:00:51 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172666 A new Irish public holiday begins this year in honour of St Brigid as one of the country’s patron saints https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/ireland/st-brigids-day. It’s the first such holiday named after a woman; and will be on Feb. 6 — the Monday closest to her traditional feast-day of Feb. 1 to Feb. 2 coinciding with the old Gaelic […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/halfway-back-to-the-light/feed/ 0 172666 Book review – A Word Shared Between Us https://faithtides.ca/book-review-a-word-shared-between-us/ https://faithtides.ca/book-review-a-word-shared-between-us/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:00:56 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=172655 Few of us will look back at 2020 with fondness. The COVID-19 disease which had appeared in late 2019 was by March of the following year officially declared a pandemic. In Canada, shutdowns were put in effect, which included places of worship. Accordingly, churches within the Anglican communion were closed. The months that followed were […]

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