Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 9 is Mother’s Day, first celebrated in 1908 at a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia, honouring Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist who had cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. It is also the sixth of the seven weeks of Eastertide, and the third of four weeks exploring Jesus’ teachings about living in intimacy with God.
In the scripture readings during this Eastertide, Jesus is saying, “On one level, I am about to leave you, but on a deeper level, we are even closer than before. Just continue along the path I have shown you — and we’ll be together. Love one another — and you’ll thereby abide in my love, which is to say, you’ll abide in me, as intimate as a vine and its branches. Listen and embody my commandment to love, and we’ll be inseparable, too." Yet how do we do this during times of different opinions, priorities and desires?
"Seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be open..."
Service
Church on Zoom
Join us this Sunday, May 9th as we will have Rev. Dr. Sarah Travis from the Faculty at Knox College will lead us in a traditional Sunday service. Sarah Travis is the minister of Norval Presbyterian Church and teaches courses at Knox College in the area of preaching and worship.
Sarah is the author of Decolonizing Preaching: The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space and Metamorphosis: Preaching after Christendom, as well as Preaching the Good News: A Handbook about Preaching for Presbyterians in Canada.
Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Sarah Travis
9:50AM — Greet & chat
10:00AM — Service begins
Contemporary
Richard Rohr on the History of the Christ (Part 3)
In this ten-minute video, Father Richard looks at what was gained and lost in the Protestant Reformation and the challenges for Western religion that come through the Enlightenment. He encourages viewers to try and engage the Universal Christ not just as a rational idea but a participatory reality.
“The very word “religio” (Latin for religion) is to re-ligament, reconnect. But we aren’t reconnected we are disconnected from our neighbour, from other races, from other religions and certainly from the animals.”