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communion

Sermon: Christmas Day, December 25, 2022 – John 1: 1-18

December 25, 2022 by Greg Wooley

A Christmas Eve or Christmas Day Communion Service, experienced by many as Midnight Mass, is a tradition with a long history.  In my years with you, perhaps three or four … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags birth narrative, Christmas, communion, Incarnation, infancy, word became flesh, word becomes flesh

Sermon: January 23, 2022 – John 2: 1-11

January 23, 2022 by Greg Wooley

Pretty much everyone in Ministry has some good stories about weddings, and wedding receptions.  Other than a few brides being prodigiously late, there haven’t been many silly things happen at … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags Cana, celebration, communion, eucharist, Jesus, mass, open, sanctification, Spurgeon, transformation, water, water into wine, wedding, wine

Online Communion September 5th 2021

September 4, 2021 by Greg Wooley

Bring your Bread and Cup, and join us for an online Communion Service on Sunday, September 5th. Worship will be posted to https://youtu.be/QescrN1HtlM by suppertime on Saturday Sept 4.

Categories General Posts Tags communion, Mark, Sermon, worship

Christmas Communion – online

December 27, 2020 by Greg Wooley
holy family ceramic figures

Our December 27 online Worship Service features Carols, a message from the Moderator, and… Communion!  Bring your own bread and cup, and share the sacrament of communion at this sacred … Read more

Categories General Posts Tags birth, Christmas, communion, Jesus, online, YouTube

2020 Christmas Services, at home

December 20, 2020 by Greg Wooley

We are delighted to offer THREE very unique online services this Christmas season. FIRST, on Monday night, December 21 at 7:30 PM, our “Longest Night” service, with content provided by … Read more

Categories General Posts Tags Christmas Eve, communion, community, Longest Night

Sermon: October 4, 2020 – Jonah 3: 1-10

November 25, 2020October 6, 2020 by Greg Wooley

This week, illumination has come from a few different angles… and if all goes well, they will converge at something resembling a sermon! watch at https://youtu.be/EkyucrRnq1w  download PDF at Sermon_04October2020 … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags atonement, Christ, communion, earth, forgiveness, global, Jonah, Nineveh, repentance, world, Yom Kippur

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

August 18, 2020 by Greg Wooley

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 … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags communion, covid, God, Jesus, mediated, Paul, presence

Sermon: May 12, 2019 – Psalm 23 and John 21

May 12, 2019 by Greg Wooley
Norwich Cathedral

It was my great joy to spend Holy Week this year in the UK, at Norwich Cathedral.  What drew me there, was a series of lectures by Rev. Dr. Malcolm … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags communion, love, Peter, redemption

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Rev. Greg Wooley – Minister
Rev. Shannon Mang – Wedding Minister

CANMORE CAMPUS:
Trish Campney – Office Admin, Canmore

Church Phone: 403.675.0064
Church Fax: 403.675.0071

Mailing Address:
PO Box 8901 Stn Main,
Canmore AB T1W 0J3

Street Address:
Ralph Connor Memorial UC,
617 Main (8th) Street,
Canmore, Alberta

BANFF CAMPUS:
Nancy Murray – Office Admin, Banff

Church phone: 403.762.2075
Mailing Address:
Rundle Memorial United Church,
PO Box 1086
Banff, AB T1L 1B1

Street Address:
104 Banff Avenue
Banff, Alberta
(corner of Banff Ave and Buffalo St)

 

 

 

 

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