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sunday april 26 "missing!"

confusion and despair have often been the experience of the church, even from its very earliest days. check out the later parts of John 20! how do we respond to the experience of the same things? over bread & soup, around tables, to the sounds of live music, in conversation, prayer and silence. the Undercroft 5.00 pm


wednesday april 29 musicians & singers
get together. let's try 7.30 pm at 3498 Harvard, NDG.

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sunday april 19
last sunday the doors to Promenades Cathedrale & the Undercroft were locked, but not so this sunday! the events of last sunday started out badly, quickly got worse, but then something totally without precedent happened...so, this sunday we get to commemorate, celebrate, and consider the momentous implications of those events! join us at the Undercroft 5.00 pm for soup & bread, live music, friends, prayer!

painting:"Emaús" (Lucas 24, 30), Fray Gabriel

no gathering this sunday

paintings by Greig Leach




a quote from a favourite writer of mine, Lesslie Newbigin, that seemed especially fitting this Good Friday.
"He (Jesus) does not leave behind an ideal or a program. He leaves behind a community--the Church. This community exists not because of decisions its members have made. It is not constituted by the faith, insight, or moral excellence of its members. It exists because God has called its members out of the world by his own action and given them to Jesus." (The Light Has come;Grand Rapids 1987 p.228)

a very small part of that community got together last night in the Undercroft for "a meal with friends". To eat and talk together, but also to read Matthew's account of the Last Supper, betrayal, arrest of Jesus, the dispersal of the disciples, and finally to share the Lord's Supper together on the night that commemorates Jesus' last supper. It was a poignant evening.

Today, Good Friday, gives us the chance to walk once again through the harrowing events of that day, before we wait, through the hours of gloomy saturday to the surprise and shock of the empty tomb on Easter morning. quite a journey!

we won't be gathering at the Undercroft this sunday for a number of reasons, Promenades Cathedrale is closed for Easter, many emergers are out of town with family. so celebrate Jesus being raised from the dead with friends, family, a local church, whatever. but make sure you reflect on the outrageous turnaround that God engineers, that absolutely no one expected. it's the same God who calls us into relationship with him through his son Jesus. It's the same God who has made us a part of his community!

Have a good Friday and a joyous Easter Sunday when it arrives!

nxt7

sunday april 5th
5.00pm meet at the Undercroft for soup & bread together, then around 6.00pm head down to Reggie's at Concordia's Hall Building, (de Maisonneuve & Mackay) to join with the Living Room, who have asked Nick to speak at their Palm Sunday gathering. this will be a great opportunity to hang with some other followers of Jesus.

thursday april 9th (aka Maundy Thursday)
"a meal with friends" is what Jesus had the night before he was executed. so let's gather at the Undercroft at 6.00pm for a pot luck supper with friends, before many of us head off to celebrate Jesus' resuurection with family on Easter Sunday. it will give us time time to walk through the events of that fateful day, and to celebrate appropriately the cost of Jesus' victory over sin & death.