The Little White Church on Main Street, Canmore, Alberta
From mid-March to mid-June, 2020, Evensong members contributed a weekly meditation/reflection to our online Sunday worship service. To watch these separately, please click on the date to download the mp4:
June 21 – Alan MacFadyen, “Oneness with Creation”
June 14 – Eric McAvity, “The Goodness of Creation”
June 7 – Marni Virtue, “Pentecost Season: One Searing Word”
May 24 – Jan Tissandier, “Ascension Poetry Collage”
May 17 – Val Goodrow, “Prayers of Intercession”
May 3 – Barbara Parker, “A Spring Prayer”
April 26 – Alan MacFadyen, “Meditation on Loving Kindness”
April 19 – Marni Virtue, Lectio Divina – “Such Singing in the Wild Branches”
April 12 – Jan Tissandier, “An Easter Like No Other”
April 5 – Judy Archer, “Gratitude”
March 29 – Judith Maxwell, “Lectio Divina – Be Still, and Know that I am God”
March 22 – Jan Tissandier, “Encircled in Light”
Initiated in 2001, Evensong’s contemplative style of worship is a wonderful Wednesday evening service (7:15-8:00 PM) at Ralph Connor. Interspersing music, silence, poetry, prose, meditation, prayer, the gifts of the Spirit are very present in this place.
Love all Creation, The whole of it and every grain of sand Love every leaf Every ray of God’s light Love the animals Love the plants Love everything If you love everything You will perceive The divine mystery in things And once you have perceived it You will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly More and more every day And you will at last come to love the whole world With an abiding universal love ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky …
This Wednesday night at 7:15, our contemplative Evensong service begins its twentieth year. We’re gathering in the Church Yard and will be observing the appropriate distancing and masking protocols. Also available by Zoom… contact the Church Office for login information.
Evensong – Wednesday, May 27, 2020 A door opens in the centre of our being and we seem to fall through it into the immense depths which, though they are infinite, are all accessible to us. ~ Thomas Merton Somewhere in our lives there are people…or perhaps it is we ourselves Who are here to create new visions, to dream wider dreams, to hope beyond the ordinary And to cling to very little during this time of breaking through into …
Evensong Ah — a resting place, where we come to understand it is not required of us to wrestle constantly and passionately with our God — nor pursue relentlessly all God’s decrees as we understand them, but only that we listen and wonder and hope and pray… Edwina Gateley Join us virtually for mid-week Evensong, Wednesday, May 20, 7:15pm
Evensong, Wednesday May 13, 2020 They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heart What light can For a field. ~John of the Cross Give me a small line of verse from time to time, O God, And if I cannot write it down for lack of paper or light, Then let me address it softly in the evening to your Great Heaven. But please give me a small line of verse. ~Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted …
Evensong by Zoom – this Wednesday at 7:15 PM Prayer is moving. Prayer is offering our bones back to the dance. Prayer is letting go of everything that impedes our inner silence. God is the dance and the dance is the way to freedom and freedom is our holy work. ~ Gabrielle Roth People danced communally to celebrate the seasons’ cycles, to express joy, reverence and grief, and to commemorate challenges overcome. We find in the energy of the dance …
Once again, Evensong gathers by Zoom – Wednesday April 22 at 7:15 PM. Login details are attached to the weekly Evensong email – or contact office@ralphconnor.ca We should be listening to the stars in the heavens and the sun and the moon, to the mountains and the plains, to the forests and rivers and seas that surround us, to the meadows and the flowering grasses, to the songbirds and the insects and to their music especially in the evening and …
The Julian of Norwich video from April 15 Evensong is at http://ralphconnor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/All-will-be-well-Julian-Evensong.mp4 Blessings, GW
Christianity can help us realize that death and resurrection are part of the evolutionary path toward wholeness; letting go of isolated existence for the sake of deeper union. Something dies but something new is born—which is why the chaos of our times is, in a strange way, a sign of hope; something new is being born within. Out of chaos, a star is born. Breakdown can be break through if we recognize a new pattern of life struggling to emerge. …
Read moreJulian of Norwich – Evensong online – April 15 at 7:15 PM
Evensong, April 1, 2020 The April 1 Evensong was our first time gathering by Zoom. We’ll be doing it again! “Each day is a gift, every moment is a gift. What happens when we honour all of life as a gift?” Christine Valters-Paintner “There’s a vast difference between drinking a morning cup of tea with full attention and drinking it while preoccupied by our plans for the day.” Japanese Zen tea connoisseur and Psychotherapist Tara Bennett-Goleman “I am …
Read moreEvensong – Wednesday, April 8, 2020 – join online with Zoom