covid Archives - Ralph Connor Memorial United Church

Christmas Eve – is now on-line!

December 24, 2020

Our Christmas Eve service is now live!! As always, it’s a community-oriented service and this year, features the Nativity story filmed at various locations around Canmore. service link: https://youtu.be/jm62zY0N258 or you can access it through the Ralph Connor Canmore YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi8loA1BP8lNAppSRR9_aQQ and see all our online services (including Monday’s “Longest Night” service) We are holding no in-person services this Christmastime, as we follow and support the Alberta coronavirus guidelines (and… we would need to decide which 12 of you could …

Sermon: August 16, 2020 – 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26

August 18, 2020

When we are at our best, Christians embody their faith. We look to Jesus Christ as an embodiment, or incarnation, of the Divine, referred to in the gospel of John as “the Word made Flesh.” God’s presence in the person of Jesus, expresses that this physical world and these physical bodies are places where we experience holiness, sacredness, Divine acceptance, and love. Theologians like Marcus Borg (pp.39-54) encourage us to view salvation, not as some deferred exit plan from life, …

Missing the 7 pm bells?

June 6, 2020May 28, 2020

At 7 pm each night, we’re all encouraged to make joyous noise as a note of thanks to our first-line responders. Part of this has been the peals of the Church bells at St. Michael’s Anglican and Ralph Connor United. Unfortunately, the next few days both bells will be silenced – at St. Michael’s, an ongoing silence as their bell is broken, and at Ralph Connor, a temporary silence due to the sanctuary & narthex floor refinishing. For those wishing …