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Colleagues List, March 3rd, 2019

Vol. XIV No. 33

GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE
CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, Editor
My E-Mail Address:
wholst@telus.net


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Dear Friends:

Here is my "reduced" issue of Colleagues List for the week.
I have been quite occupied with the preparation for a Lenten
Retreat and a continuing teaching load at my church. We are
also in the final stages of planning for our St. David's Spiritual
Travelers' tour of Eastern Europe and Russia just after Easter.

I hope to return to my regular format next week, but, for now,
let share my February column for the Anglican Journal.

Wayne

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My February, 2019 Anglican Journal Column:

"Spiritual Travel"

http://tinyurl.com/y366f8ha

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WISDOM OF THE WEEK

Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

- Maya Angelou

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The thing is, we can't be in right relationship to
each other if we can't see each other. We can't
be fully present in any relationship if we're walling
off part of ourselves or hiding beneath a mask.
 
- Austen Hartke

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People use up their lives in heartbreaking political
struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or
tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not
in order to establish some central-heated, air-
conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because
they want a world in which human beings love
one another instead of swindling and murdering
one another.


 - George Orwell
 
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The cross is not a defeat, but a victory. It is the dramatic
reassertion of the fact that God’s love is sovereign, that
the rulers of the world do not have the last word, that the
kingdom of God has defeated the kingdom of Satan, that
the kingdoms of the world have now become, in principle,
the kingdom of our God, and of his Messiah: and he shall
reign for ever and ever.


- N. T. Wright

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CLOSING THOUGHT - - Ellen Painter Dollar

 
For me, the cross is about a God who is with us when
we suffer in a way that only someone who has also
suffered can.


 
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For those interested:
 
Current ACTS Ministry Activities at
St. David's United Church, Calgary
 
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ANNUAL ST. DAVID'S LENTEN RETREAT
Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre
Cochrane, AB


http://www.mountstfrancis.ca/

Theme: "Who Do You Say That I Am"
Led by Spiritual Director Susan Campbell

Sunday, March 10th, 2019
11:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Cost: $30.
(includes registration, lunch and refreshments)

Restful reflections and nature walks, weather permitting...

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ST. DAVID'S ACTS  WINTER MONDAY NIGHT BOOK STUDY 
A Ten Week Series January 14th - March 18, 2019
Monday Evenings, TM Room 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

"THE GREAT SPIRITUAL MIGRATION"
  How the World's Largest Religion is
  Seeking a Better Way to be Christian

Author: Brian D. McLaren

Registration/Hospitality and Book: $60.00.
Book only: $20.00
 
45 copies of the book were made available for sale.
All are now sold. Total on-site registrations: 42
(plus 3 on-line participants). Grand Total: 45

Here are power point notes from each session:
https://tinyurl.com/ycz5wf72

Book Description - https://tinyurl.com/ybeaaceq
 
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Some stats:

Autumn, 2018 Program -
 
Total class registrations: 42
Total books sold: 57
 
Autumn and Winter Series (2018-19) -
 
Total class registrations: 87
Total books sold: 102

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ST. DAVID'S SPIRITUAL TRAVELERS TOUR, 2019
East Europe and Russia were chosen as our destinations!


This will be our fifth Spiritual Travelers Tour, with a
group emerging from St. David's but very open to others.
 
The Tour is entitled: "From Vienna to Moscow"

We plan a twenty-day tour that combines a focus
on spirituality, culture and the relationship between
religion and politics. The tour will run from April 26th
through May 16th, 2019.

https://tinyurl.com/y834742f

A beautiful brochure with trip cost, itinerary, and
many helpful travel hints has been published.


https://tinyurl.com/y7j55gym

Our trip sale reached an important milestone
as 38 persons registered, helping us to surpass
our optimal goal of 30 passengers.

30 travelers had paid their trip fare as of the deadline:
January 15th, 2019. This will be our travel group.

Our Canadian tour company is Rostad Tours, Calgary.
Contact Rostad Tours: http://www.rostad.com/

Phone 1-800-361-8687 or 403-238-4090.

Follow these notices for weekly updates.

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ST. DAVID'S ACTS THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY
 
Our theme this winter: Hebrew Biblical History -
 
"I and II Kings"  

Ten Sessions - January 24th-March 28th, 2019

Gathering at 9:30 AM in the St. David's TM Room
and meeting 10:00 - 11:00 AM.

No charge

Study resource

"The DK Complete Bible Handbook"
  Edited by John Bowker


http://tinyurl.com/odxlv7q
 

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