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EASTER EDITION
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
waholst@telus.net
Colleagues List Web Site
http//colleagueslist2.bogspot.com
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Dear Friends:
Holy Week and Easter are the themes
of most of the material in this issue of
Colleagues List this week. I hope you
will find at least some help from my
selections to support your current
spiritual growth and experience.
My "reflection" for Holy Week and Easter
is, in fact, some of the music I am
listening to, to help me centre on the
religious significance of the season.
I hope you might take the time to
click the links to four major Bach
selections, presented on Youtube
by two choirs from the UK, one from
Japan and one from Belgium. This is
an international seasonal celebration
which I hope you will enjoy, even use
as background music for the weekend,
or anytime for that matter.
There are many other good items to
consider here, but please take some time
with colleague Isabel Gibson's testimonial
on behalf of colleague Ron Rolheiser, below.
Both Ron and Isabel have been friends
for many years, but here is praise for
one colleague of another.
A blessed season to all of you.
Wayne
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SPECIAL ITEM
MUSICAL HOLY WEEK AND EASTER REFLECTION
Suggested Bach Music for Passiontide and Easter
by the BBC Classical Music Magazine
Featuring Four Youtube Productions
St. Matthew Passion
Monteverdi Choir, UK
http://tinyurl.com/l8gqek6
St. John Passion
Bach Collegium Tokyo
http://tinyurl.com/kpvg4ql
Easter Oratorio
Monteverdi Choir, UK
http://tinyurl.com/kz79jlh
Magnificat in D
Ghent Collegium Vocale
http://tinyurl.com/klvxebe
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COLLEAGUE COMMUNICATIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log
April 12th, 2017
"The Man Who Didn't Die"
http://tinyurl.com/mrhm75b
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Website
April 10th, 2017
"The Empty Tomb"
http://tinyurl.com/mtm9r5t
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Isabel Gibson,
Ottawa, ON.
Traditional Iconoclast
April 3rd, 2016
"Ron Rolheiser, National Treasure"
http://tinyurl.com/mwepvtm
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NET NOTES
MEDITATION FOR GOOD FRIDAY
"From Death to Resurrection"
Alban Congregations -
Faith and Leadership Journal
April 18th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/m8srqma
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MEDITATION FOR EASTER SUNDAY
"Good Vs. Evil - The Answer
is Found in Easter Itself"
Colleague Lorna Dueck
Globe and Mail
April 14th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/krxraxr
WHILE THE MEN WERE IN HIDING
Women Delivered the Greatest News
Sojourners
April 13th, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/lqser7k
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WHY IS EASTER CALLED EASTER?
And Other Facts About the Season
Religion News Service
April 14th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kh26jno
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SCOTLAND COULD JOIN CANADA
BUT SHOULD IT?
Some Comments
BBC News,
April 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kba478j
"Vimy Ridge - A Key Symbol for Canada"
New York Times
April 9th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/l9z6nhh
MALALA BECOMES HONOURARY CANADIAN
Pakistani Muslim Author Welcomed to Canada
The Canadian Press/CTV News
April 12th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/lj3neuy
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THE BROKEN GRACE OF LEONARD COHEN
Popular Music Intersects with Religion
Sightings,
April 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/n2ptkwc
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UNITED CHURCH OBSERVER INTERVIEW
WITH JIM WALLIS OF SOJOURNERS
Canadian Interest in a Voice from
Progressive American Evangelicalism
The United Church Observer,
April, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ly3x3d6
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CHINA IS WORLD'S BIGGEST EXECUTIONER
Amnesty International Annual Survey Report
UCA News
April 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/jw9qgjm
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VIDEO OF EGYPTIAN CHURCH BOMBINGS
New York Times
April 10th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/l5ewj3h
"Who are the Copts?
Why are They Persecuted?"
Religion News Service
April 11th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ks95bbr
"Canadian Churches Send Condolences
to Coptic Christians in Egypt and Canada"
UCC Website,
April 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/kf9cot2
"South Asian Christian Minorities
React to Explosions in Egypt"
UCA News
April 12th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/ms2c7qe
CANADIAN KEEP THE FAITH
TO VARYING DEGREES
A Spectrum of Spirituality,
But Few Reject It Entirely
Angus Reid Institute
April 13th, 2017
http://tinyurl.com/n2arqnx
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof:
Good Friday is not about us trying to
"get right with God."
It is about us entering the difference between
God and humanity and just touching it for a
moment. Touching the shimmering sadness
of humanity's insistence that we can be our
own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.
- Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
- Dolores Huerta
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Whoever enters discipleship enters Jesus’ death, and
puts his or her own life into death; this has been so
from the beginning. The cross is not the horrible end
of a pious, happy life, but stands rather at the beginning
of community with Jesus Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1)
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims
beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a
spoke into the wheel itself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2)
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I am interested in people living in the margins of society,
and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of
color in particular. I feel we've been present throughout
history, but our voices have been neglected.
- Lynn Nottage
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All that the friends of Christ did for him in his lifetime,
we can do. Peter’s mother-in-law hastened to cook a
meal for him, and if anything in the Gospels can be
inferred, it surely is that she gave the very best she had,
with no thought of extravagance. Matthew made a feast
for him, inviting the whole town, so that the house was
in an uproar of enjoyment, and the straitlaced Pharisees
– the good people – were scandalized.
- Dorothy Day
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I cannot help wondering whether in these days when so
large a proportion of humanity is submerged in materialism,
God does not want there to be some men and women who
have given themselves to him and to Christ and who yet
remain outside the church. What frightens me is the church
as a social structure. And not only on account of its blemishes.
Insofar as the church is merely a social structure, it belongs
to the prince of this world... I do not want to be adopted into
another circle, another human milieu. I want nothing else
but obedience – even unto the cross.
That is the true haven, as you know: the cross.
- Simone Weil
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A MOMENT IN TIME
From the Globe and Mail
Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space
April 12, 1961: America may have had the right stuff,
but the Russians were first to send a man into space.
The former Soviet Union had a head start in the space race
with the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 – the first man-made satellite
which set off the reach-for-the-stars competition between the two superpowers.
Soviet Air Force pilot Yuri Gagarin, 27, was pressed into service
as a “cosmonaut” and, soon after, the Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted
off from its launch site in Kazakhstan. Over 108 minutes, the craft
made a complete orbit of Earth and attained a maximum height of
327 kilometres. Three days after Gagarin’s return to terra firma,
Russians celebrated his flight by dancing in the streets of Moscow.
Three weeks later, the United States caught up when Alan Shepard
piloted the Mercury capsule Freedom 7 on a successful suborbital flight.
– Andrew Ryan
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ON THIS DAY
From the New York Times
Abraham Lincoln Shot by an Assassin
http://tinyurl.com/dfzm5s
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Franklin D. Roosevelt
No democracy can long survive which does not accept
as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of
the rights of its minorities.
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For Those Interested -
ST. DAVID'S ACTS MONDAY NIGHT WINTER STUDY
A Ten Week Series January 23rd - March 27th, 2017
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
"How Jesus Became God -
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee"
http://tinyurl.com/gqzkcbx
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
35 copies were secured for sale.
All copies have been sold.
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED
JOIN US AGAIN MID-SEPTEMBER, 2017
Our Evolving Course Design:
http://tinyurl.com/j3nv7nd
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Here is the total course content from our
completed Monday Night Autumn 2016 Study:
"Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious
World" by Bishop John S. Spong
http://rtb.stdavidscalgary.net/
Check our entire archives for all 48 books
studied since 2000:
http://tinyurl.com/q3bw6dh
During the 2016-2017 two session-term -
Total class registrations: 70
Total books sold: 75
Our best year ever, since 1998!
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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING STUDY
Ten Sessions February 2nd - April 6th, 2017
"Joshua and Judges" - Formative Hebrew History
Ten sessions 10-11 AM
Gathering at 9:30 AM
In the St. David's TM Room.
No charge
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED
JOIN US AGAIN MID-SEPTEMBER, 2017
Study resource -
"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
Edited by John Bowker
http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
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ST.DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS PROJECT, 2017
South Africa has been chosen as our destination!
We plan a nineteen-day tour that combines a focus
on faith, social justice, culture, and nature, and it
will begin October 21st 2017.
A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints has been published.
http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Our optimal group size for maximum trip meaning
and value is 28-29 persons.
Twenty-Six persons have either put down deposits
to claim a special saving (or intend to do so.)
WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR DEPARTURE GOAL.
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER. When we have 29 deposits
you will be added to a waiting list and still join us
in the event someone has to drop out.
We have installed a South Africa Spiritual Travelers
discussion list group to being building community
amongst the participants, and to share news and
resources.
We hope to name a tour reporter who will report
each day's activities so everyone can enjoy the
experience, if not directly, then indirectly.
Seven months from now we leave for South Africa!
Contact Rostad Tours: http://tinyurl.com/hucsaf7
Follow our notices for weekly updates.
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