The Little White Church on Main Street, Canmore, Alberta
Join us for Evensong our “Contemplative Service” weekly on Wednesday nights, from Fall Equinox in September, to Summer Solstice in June.
Initiated in 2001, Evensong is a wonderful Wednesday evening service at Ralph Connor.
Interspersing music, silence, poetry, prose, meditation, prayer, the gifts of the Spirit are very present in this place.
If you have ever wanted to experience “contemplative worship,” come and join us from 7:15-8:00 PM on Wednesdays. (Presently on summer hiatus.)
WINDOWS to the Universe ~ to the Soul Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. Edith Wharton Open the window of your heart and let spirit speak. Rumi People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler Ross Evensong Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:15 Ralph Connor Memorial United Church Main Street …
Evensong ~ Befriending the end of the Journey ~ November 13, 7:15 “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.” Rilke We gather to contemplate befriending death in song, silence and in story, with the reading of an uncommonly tender, wonderfully warm story written for children, a meditation on the cycle of life. “Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person …
TAKING LEAVE Ours and Others’ I hear the last car leaving Everyone so kind You would have loved seeing so many dear friends at one time Now I’ll be making friends with gone Shari Ulrich Decide carefully The life you would love to look back on When your time comes to turn and take leave John O’Donohue In this thinned-veiled season all are welcome to a contemplative evening of song, prose, and silence …
On the Eve of All Souls… Join in a time of remembrance in the sanctuary …where we will remember those who have gone before us…a time for prayer, for song and for silence, for remembering and naming. Please feel free to bring a symbol of personal remembrance, an object, a photograph, a word a name…an offering to bless the space between us. Evensong Contemplative Mid-Week Worship 7:15 PM on Wednesdays Ralph Connor Memorial United Church
~ Blessings of trees ~ They give us shade, fruit, beauty, and a place of refuge for all ages. We consider the many blessings of trees. Join us, as we contemplate blessings, in word and song.
October 16. Blessings ~ From Gesundheit to Peace be with you, we bestow blessings on one another. Join us, as we contemplate blessings, in word and song. Evensong – a mid-week contemplative oasis, since 2001. each Wednesday at 7:15 PM in the Sanctuary of Ralph Connor Church
Evensong, Oct 9, 2019, 7:15 pm Gratitude: Season of Creation I raise the pipe of my being to the rising sun in openness and humility. With my eyes closed, I give thanks to the life giver and ask for strength to be humble through the course of this day. I smudge myself with sacred medicines and give thanks for the blessings that are already present in my life. I ask for nothing. I only offer thanks. Then, in gratitude and …
The alchemy of grace … the season of autumn, the season of Creation. Come for a contemplative evening of song, poetry, and silence. All are welcome. Again I resume the long lesson: How small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest. – Wendell Berry, Sabbaths I lay my heart on the altar of stars, I make my bed on ancient stone, With the trees, …
Evensong Ralph Connor Memorial United Church Wednesday, Sept. 25, 7:15pm Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment… ~ Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods In Praise of the Earth Let us remember within us The ancient clay, Holding the memory of seasons, The passion of the wind, The fluency of water, The warmth of fire, The quiver-touch of the sun And shadowed sureness of the moon. …
Thank you for attending Evensong all season. Evensong will resume in September at the time of the fall equinox. See you then for this Wednesday Evening Contemplative Service.