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.)
From Summer Solstice to Fall Equinox, our Wednesday Evensong service is “at rest.” We look forward to our 19th year of Wednesday night contemplative worship, starting mid-September. Many thanks to Jan Tissandier, our Evensong coordinator, and the many lay people who have shared in the leadership of this mid-week time of holy contemplation.
At the final EVENSONG of the 2018-2019 Church year, we welcome GLORIA SNOW to lead us in a contemplative time of worship. Gloria is a student for United Church Ministry, from the Stoney Nakoda nation. We are so honoured to welcome her leadership to this service, and that of her husband KEN LEVAE. Ralph Connor Church, 7:15 PM, Wednesday June 19th. Click here for information about Canmore’s celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, Friday June 21st. Evensong will return for its …
Evensong, June 12, 7:15 p.m. Breathing together – a Pentecost labyrinth walk Meet at the Parking Lot on the south west side of the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Bow River (on Bridge Road). We will walk together to the Labyrinth. When We Breathe Together A Blessing for Pentecost Day This is the blessing that comes when we leave behind our aloneness when we gather together when we turn toward one another. This is the blessing that blazes among …
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is: Look under foot. You are always nearer to the divine…than you think…. John Burroughs In this season of Pentecost we plan to leave from the Sanctuary to saunter (a la sainte terre) down the Policeman Creek boardwalk to share readings, listen to our hearts and the songs of birds. You are invited to bring a favorite spring poem or reading for sharing as we pause at various spots along the Boardwalk. So many gifts! What do they …
Read moreJune 5 Evensong – a walk down the boardwalk, weather permitting
We continue in the liturgical season of Easter with a celebration of the poetry of spring. Praying by Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few Small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. Evensong …
Bring your drum! Each time we pick up our drum, it is potentially a power-filled holy moment. “When the drum beats it resonates beyond your body. It becomes the heartbeat of Creation as it was meant to be.” Richard Wagamese “They carried the ark of God on a new cart,…David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs …and tambourines….” — 2 Samuel 6: 3-5 NRSV …
Remembering Jean Vanier 1928-2019 A new heart will I give you And a new spirit I will put within you And I will take out of your flesh The heart of stone And give you a heart of flesh Ezekiel 35:26 your slightest look easily will unclose me though I have closed myself as fingers you open always petal by petal as spring comes (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose e. e. cummings Come to our weekly time of contemplation, …
This Wednesday, we sit with the writings of the 14th century English contemplative, Julian of Norwich. Her Revelations of Divine Love speak of the Mothering role of Christ, amidst a series of visions she experienced of a God motivated by love, not wrath: “I it am, the Might and the Goodness of the Fatherhood; I it am, the Wisdom of the Motherhood; I it am, the Light and the Grace that is all blessed Love: I it am, the Trinity, …
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther The life-sparking energies of the Divine touch the infinite potential of Life; green emerges out of earth and we breathe afresh the mystery of spring. Deep peace, filling spirit and …
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When …
Read moreEvensong ~ The Season of Easter ~ Wednesday, April 24, 2019