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A Lent and Holy Week update

Mar 14th, 2012
by Rob.
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Hello folks.  It’s been a while since we’ve done an update. Here’s a bit of what’s happening, including our plans for the rest of Lent and Holy Week. Deep blessings in the Lenten wilderness.


ONGOING:

** Prayer happens every weekday at 7:30 in the church and 9pm at Camino House.

*** The ‘Hymns and Hers’ hymn sing continues at a nearby nursing home on Thursday afternoons

*** our  Community/Camino House Thursday open meal gets rolling around 5:30pm. All are welcome. Please do invite friends. Contributions to the meal are welcomed but not required.

*** our community discernment with Br. Reginald is ongoing with 20+ community members attending each session. We’re coming closer to defining the next stage of our shared community life, andthere are many exciting possibilities emerging for a shared future together.

*** ‘river’ happens most Sundays at 4pm at the church.  Sun March 19th is on as usual and we’ll be joined by folks from Parkdale Neighbourhood Church. Looking ahead, river will be heading down to PNC next Sunday, March 25 for a 3:30pm start. There will be no ‘river’ at St. Anne’s on March 25.

*** PNC drop-in meal continues Mondays from 10am-2pm and volunteers are always welcomed to join the JC crew who go down.

*** after-school recreation drop-in is back this upcoming Monday evening after a week off for March Break.


NEW THINGS:

*** we’re restarting our river planning potlucks. They will happen every other Tuesday evening beginning March 27th (Jeremiah Community Council usually meets on the other week). We’ll send a reminder before the next one. All are welcomed to come and plan and share your creative spirit (no liturgical experience needed)!!!

*** The Jeremiah Community council has formed working groups on arts/crafts, refugee issues, formation/small groups and expanded/stable housing for our community/hospitality. I

*** The second run of our ‘waiting…’ Lent reflection books are just about gone. Email us for a .pdf version of the booklet!

*** It’s time to start thinking about our community garden. Anyone interested?

*** Plans are coming together around the Wild Goose Festival -  It looks like there will be a good crew of people going. Drop a line if you’re interested in a pilgrimage. We may visit some other intentional Christian Communities on the way.


HOLY WEEK:

Holy Week is taking shape. Here’s what it’s looking like:

*** Palm Sunday will be in the church at 4pm.

*** We’ve talked about a shared field trip with the St. Anne’s AM folks to St. Mary Magdalene’s for Tenebrae .

*** Holy (Maundy) Thursday will be happening at 5:30pm with Epiphany & St. Mark and Parkdale Neighbourhood Church (at ESM/PNC) – with a shared potluck Seder meal, hand or footwashing and communion with a sending happening at the Parkdale Community Garden right across from ESM.

*** There will be a prayer vigil in the church and/or Camino Chapel from 10pm on Holy Thursday until 10am on Friday AM with people signing up for slots. We’ll be circulating a sign-up sheet soon! Alex Karney is working on some justice/eco stations of the cross.

*** Good Friday Worship will happen at 3pm in the church.

*** Camino House will host a silent retreat with meails on Holy Saturday.

*** We will be having an Easter Dawn lakeside celebration with our fellow new-monastic / intentional Christian community neighbourhood friends around 5am on Easter morning as well as a joint Communion Service with St. Anne’s at 10:30 on Sunday Morning. There will be no separate 4pm river service on Easter Sunday.

*** As in previous years we will be setting up a labyrinth in the church between now and Holy Week.


You catch all that? More to come :)

Deep peace as we continue to wander in the darkness

seeking hope and Resurrection

in Christ

Rob

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‘river’ worship every sunday at 4pm

Sep 15th, 2009
by Rob.
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‘river’ is our weekly community time of worship where  spirit and justice flow.

‘river’ happens each sunday at 4pm in our space at st. anne’s church [ please note that river will be offsite Feb 26th and March 25th 2012 in an ecumenical exchange with our friends at Parkdale Neighbourhood Church ]. 

each week we celebrate the ancient mysteries of our Christian spirituality with bread and wine, eclectic song (ranging from leonard cohen to matt redman, from ani difranco to u2, from arvo part to the wesleys), ritual, and creativity.  most weeks have a children’s gathering as part of ‘river’,  plus someone on hand to hang out with infants and/or intergenerational creative aspects for everyone.

these days ‘river’ is fairly contemplative, with sprinkles of celebration!

there’s a little bit more about river at www.riverworship.ca (site in development)

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our current common life

Jul 28th, 2011
by Rob.
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This post will be updated regularly as our common life evolves.  Please check it regularly!

* [CO-]MISSION:

* Matthew House (refugee accompaniment) time – A meal twice a month

* Weekly Open Meal– every Thursday @ 5:30pm  @ Camino House

* Parkdale Neighbourhood Church – a few of our folks are part of the Monday drop-in and other aspects of PNC’s life.

* Our Organic Garden -according to the seasons – plots available

* Recreation Drop-In for Youth – Mondays at 6pm at AMG School

* Hymn Sing @ Fairview – Thursday afternoons at Fairview Nursing Home

* Neighbourhood Jeremiah Projects – Brockton Writers Group (usually the first Wednesday @ 7pm) * Urban Flute/Junction Trio (usually the last Wed of month 7:30pm)

* COMMUNION:

* ‘river’ Holy Eucharist/worship- Sundays @ 4pm – all welcome! – church of St. Anne, Gladstone (we’ll be elsewhere the last Sundays in Feb and March – email us if you’d like to join us those Sundays)

* Morning and Evening Prayer – Weekdays @ 7:30am in church and 9pm in Camino House

* Taize Worship – the first Wednesday of month @ 12:30pm (at Parkdale Neighbourhood Church) – not happening in January. Email to confirm as this is evolving!

* COMMUNITY:

* Community Formation Groups (all welcome): “radically ordinary” – 14 weeks on new monastic & missional principles.  Saturdays from 10-12.  See also the posts on “story of God, story of us” (tuesday evenings) and “mossy stones” (thursday evenings)… [winter 2012 update - we're working on new groups - stay tuned or email if you're interested]

* Community Meetings – usually the second Saturday (AM) of the Month [ winter 2012 update - we're in the midst of a community discernment process and meetings will be less regular]

* JARS – Jeremiah Accountable Relationships – groups of 3+ folks meeting monthly or more just to ‘be’ together.

Come by and join us or drop us a line if you’d like to learn more.

We’d love to see you…

The Jeremiah Community

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radically ordinary :

Sep 29th, 2010
by Rob.
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exploring intentional Christian community
through the ‘marks of the new monasticism’
Saturdays at 10-12 @ camino house – beginning September 24

[update: the current round of radically ordinary has ended… let us know if you’d like to be part of a future session’

Camino House * 276 Gladstone Ave. (Dundas W. and Dufferin)
All are welcome * No cost to attend

Topics Include:
*  A History of Intentional Christian Communities
*  Care for the God’s earth & supporting the local economy
*  Proximity to community members and relocation to abandoned places of empire
*  Sharing economic resources and a deeply relational common life
*  Peacemaking, non-violence and conflict resolution
* Commitment to a disciplined contemplative, prayerful life
*  ‘Co-mission’ part one: being a ‘sent-out-together’ community
*  Radical Hospitality to/with the stranger
* Intentional formation in the way of Christ and the rule & rhythm of a community
*  ‘Co-mission’ part two: The incarnational life
*  Lament for divisions in church and culture & being agents of just reconciliation
*  Humble submission to Christ’s body, the Church
*  Right relationships: celibate singles, monogamous couples and diverse families living in community
*  Re-imagining church as ‘intentional community’ in a post-Christendom world.

The format for most evenings will be a presentation with a group discussion.

email info@jeremiahcommunity.ca or call  (647) 925 9535 for more information or to register.

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taize prayer 1st wed of month @ pnc

Sep 29th, 2010
by Rob.
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taize

We’re excited to be continuing our contemplative prayer time in partnership with Parkdale Neighbourhood Church.

Note: Due to unforseeable circumstances, we’re cancelling the our Taize Prayer gather for a bit.  Sorry about this. Drop us a line if you’re interested in future gatherings.

contemplative sung meditation

the first wednesday each month @ 1pm

@ pnc the underground ::: 201 cowan ave. (basement)

childcare may be available

SILENCE  + SIMPLE CHANT + SACRED SPACE

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New Year’s Day/Eve in Pictures

Jan 25th, 2012
by Elizabeth.
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Happy new year 2012! Better late than ever, here is an update on what the Jeremiah did to close the year behind us and welcome in the new. On New Year’s eve, over 15 of us gathered in the living room of Camino house for some laughter and fun with crazy board games. We gathered outside with sparklers and cheered in the new year at midnight. Then we gathered in the church for an intimate, candlelight service as our first act for the new year. This was a meaningful time for us as we rooted ourselves in God’s love and prayer.

But the partying didn’t end here! We gathered once again with new friends and old for a turkey dinner. There was a magnificent abundance of food. We packed out the living room with very little wiggle room. It was a joyous time!

We hope to see you throughout the year 2012! We continue to have our worship service at 4pm on Sundays. And we continue with Morning prayer (7:30am in the church) and evening prayer (9:00pm) in the chapel.

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Nuit Blanche ::: Asylum ::: Oct 1 ::: 6:59pm-7am

Sep 15th, 2011
by Rob.
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The Jeremiah Community is proud to work with Workman Arts to take part in the Nuit Blanche 2011, Toronto’s 6th Annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art. This year’s presentation, taking place at our Abbey of St. Anne’s Anglican Church, is an independent project titled Asylum.

Experimental media inspired by the concept of asylum, will be projected throughout the interior of the Byzantine revival church, amongst murals created in 1923 by artists – including members of the Group of Seven. An original soundscape of music and sound poetry will accompany the projections to create an immersive environment inviting contemplation of art and the divine. Sound artists and musicians will perform live at the top of every hour.

The site-specific video and sound installation is collaboration between the artists of Workman Arts and The Jeremiah Community, and in partnership with CAMH, Trinity Square Video, V Tape and the Images Festival.

Here’s a photo of Workman Art’s poet-in-residence bill bissett…

Asylum_5x7

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Story of God, Story of Us

Sep 15th, 2011
by Rob.
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a weekly dramatic re-telling of the ‘big arc’ of the biblical story

Twelve Tuesdays from 7-9pm beginning on Tuesday September 20th
St. Anne’s Anglican Church (enter through side glass doors off parking lot)
child or infant care may be available upon request.

email info@jeremiahcommunity.ca to attend or email or call 647 925 8535 for more information

for a sample chapter, click here: story of god story of us

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Mossy Stones: Creation Texts & Gospel Narratives

Sep 15th, 2011
by Rob.
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Is the Bible actually green, or are we just making it that way?
What does the Biblical text actually say about God’s creative activity and human participation? Did Jesus have anything to say about creation?
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Week One – The Creation Mandate: Genesis, Job and Psalm104
Week Two – Climate Catastrophe and Prophetic Witness: Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Week Three – Jesus and the Renewal of Creation: The Gospel of John
Week Four – Jesus and the Kingdom of God: The Sermon on the Mount
Week Five – Renewal of Creation II: St. Paul and John the Divine

Thursday nights, starting September 22nd @ 7:30 pm
email info@jeremiahcommunity.ca to register, or call 647 925 8535

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