Featured - June 2023 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-june-2023/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:29:29 +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 - June 2023 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-june-2023/ 32 32 207835967 The future is bright https://faithtides.ca/the-future-is-bright/ https://faithtides.ca/the-future-is-bright/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:38:21 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173203 This text is from the charge delivered by Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee during her sermon at the opening eucharist at the 101st synod held in May 2023.   May only the truth be spoken and only the truth be heard. Amen. Our first reading this evening was from the Book of Acts (15: 22-31) by coincidence. […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/the-future-is-bright/feed/ 0 173203 Wind and fire https://faithtides.ca/wind-and-fire/ https://faithtides.ca/wind-and-fire/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:37:14 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173187 Some things can be told only as a story. Someone offers a story and we listen. But we know it is pointless to ask questions because the narrator — in this case a young Syrian professional who has identified with the Christian movement in its infancy —  knows nothing we do not know. As Luke […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/wind-and-fire/feed/ 0 173187 Beauty, the forgotten name of God https://faithtides.ca/beauty-the-forgotten-name-of-god/ https://faithtides.ca/beauty-the-forgotten-name-of-god/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:36:40 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173190 Holy Mystery, Poet of the World, empower us to know and praise you rightly. Teach us once more that you are not just the True, the Good, but also the Beautiful. Inspire our minds, hearts and bodies with a vision of your nature. Heal our imaginations so that we can envision a world otherwise than […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/beauty-the-forgotten-name-of-god/feed/ 0 173190 Inspired to go forth — the making of an altar frontal https://faithtides.ca/inspired-to-go-forth-the-making-of-an-altar-frontal/ https://faithtides.ca/inspired-to-go-forth-the-making-of-an-altar-frontal/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:35:57 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173087 About four years ago, Daniel Fournier, the rector of St Luke, Cedar Hill, asked me if I would make a new altar frontal for our church. I am a fabric artist, and he had seen some of my work.  After some thought, I agreed, and I worked on one for Ordinary Time. Over the next […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/inspired-to-go-forth-the-making-of-an-altar-frontal/feed/ 0 173087 Diocese of BC Women’s Spring Retreat (April 21-22) https://faithtides.ca/diocese-of-bc-womens-spring-retreat-april-21-22-2023/ https://faithtides.ca/diocese-of-bc-womens-spring-retreat-april-21-22-2023/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:35:30 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=173184 On the weekend of April 21, 32 women from across our diocese gathered for the Spring Women’s Retreat at St John the Baptist, Duncan. Selinde Krayenhoff, a priest of the diocese and our facilitator, led us in exploring our understanding of the “divine exchange.” Whether we came seeing ourselves as “givers” or “receivers,” we quickly […]

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