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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

MCWC #24 Sister Wind

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Pope Francis in his Papal Fiat, July 2022 On Sunday evening, Lee and I watched Conclave , a most interesting movie that came out last year, ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #58: A song for Pope Francis

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When I joined my 7 a.m. online morning meditation group today, I learned that Pope Francis had gone to eternal life, and I was kinda choked ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #57: A Hosanna I'd never heard

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I meant to tack this video (click here, email subscribers)  onto yesterday's post, as it was the beautiful melody with which we ended ou...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Sunday Reflection: a Holy Week meditation

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Today was my Sunday to offer a reflection for the Community of Emmanuel in our inner-city. Because our next service is on Easter Sunday, it ...
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Monday, April 7, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #56: Tommy Emmanuel

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I worked four nights out of five at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music last week, all excellent shows. But the one that really blew me aw...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Not April Fool's jokes

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I only wish it was an April Fool's Day joke. But no, as promised, the Bissell Centre Community Space is closed today. It has been a plac...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #55 : A little bit of Jim Cuddy

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I've always liked Jim Cuddy's music, though I had never seen Blue Rodeo or him live until back in November when I worked his concert...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #54: A man named Pacho Flores

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I had no idea what I was in for when I went to work at Friday night's Trumpet and Tequila concert at the Francis Winspear Centre for Mus...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Worry less, hope more

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I have yet to see Damien, the man I wrote about a few weeks ago after I learned he had lost all his fingers and one thumb to frostbite. Past...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

A snowy puppy's delight

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We're at the tail end of winter, it's a snowy day, and Remi-pup loves snow. I do too, because it wears him right out, and I can get ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #53: The Great River from The Lord of the Rings

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Have I mentioned lately that I love my job? (My job refers to my work as usher at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, but my vocation is ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Sunday Reflection: Filling our God-shaped hole

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Today's reflection is brought to you by Luke 4: 1-13. Our service at the Community of Emmanuel this morning was very special, due in no ...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #52 -- Eternal Light

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There's a new musician who has joined our Inner City Pastoral Ministry's Community of Emmanuel. His name is Evan, and he's an ex...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Does life have to hurt this much?

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I've known Damien (not his real name) for a couple of years now. I first met him on a sunny August morning at Table Time, the almost wee...
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Monday, February 24, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #51: Those Rebellious Elevators

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There's been lots of great symphonic music at the Winspear Centre for Music these last weeks, so much so that I'm finding it hard to...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Hope Stoves to warm cold people

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It's bloody cold out there these days. And there are far too many people without homes. Yes, some of them stay in shelters for the homel...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

Monday Music Appreciation #50: Laudate Dominum

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Wow, we're up to 50 music appreciation moodlings! And I've chosen this particular piece because we had such a great time singing/pra...