saturday december 4th

You are invited to an evening of prayer, food and Christmas festivities!

Curieux  and emerge have joined more than 150 communities of faith all over the world to launch a new book of prayers edited by Shane Claiborne, Enuma Okoro and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove,called "Common Prayer".

All of these parties are taking place from December 1st - 5th,and ours will be on Saturday, December 4th. 

emerge and curieux are collaborating to celebrate this exciting new book AND the upcoming Christmas season. What better way than with a prayer party?! 

So bring some food to share and come, slow down and create some space for The Divine as we enter Advent. 


Check out the following link for more information on the concept of the
Common Prayer Parties being hosted globally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBhopwX4lRI

WHERE: St. Stephen's House, 1 Weredale Park, Westmount, QC, (Atwater
metro)
WHEN: Saturday, December 4th at 18:00
RSVP: Click to register
EMAIL: montrealcommonprayerparty@gmail.com with any questions

Hope to see you there!

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A word from Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove :

"After several years of working with scores of communities, liturgy
experts, artists, and musicians, we’re excited to announce that Common
Prayer: Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals will be out in time for Advent.
It’s more than a book… it’s a way of life. We’re excited to share it
with you.
 
We’re so excited, in fact, that we’ve been working with friends
across the country and around the globe to plan nearly 150 release
parties. (We hope you can find one near you.) We wish we could be at
every one of them (and, with a little technical assistance, we might be
able say hi). But more importantly, we want you to come and see the
beautiful art that’s been created for this project. We want you to have a
chance to pray these prayers with a gathering of friends. We want you
to sing these songs and take them home with you, knowing that you’re not
alone, but part of an incredible family of fellow travelers that stretches all the way back to Abraham and Sarah."-- Shane Claiborne and
Jonathan

sunday november 28th messymerge!

the last messymerge before Christmas will be taking place at the Undercroft between 4 and 6pm. Potluck as usual and fun crafts and songs! Kids and big people alike very welcome!

See you there!

sunday november 21st

sunday november 14th

some people (you may be one of them) might want to put a question mark after the title of this week's chapter in TGBG. that would be understandable given the world we live in.

this week's soul training is to make a list of the many things for which we are grateful to God. mine includes soccer and soul music so its obviously not an exclusively "religious" list. 

what's yours going to have in it? 

to find out what others have included in their list, and to share yours, gather at the Undecroft at 5.00 pm for bread, soup, coffee, conversation, and possibly a little music!

sunday november 7th

hi there!

my October wanderings are over! I had a good time racking up the Aeroplan miles.
after last sunday's costumed messymerge,complete with cookie making & pumpkin decorating, we resume reading 'The Good & Beautiful God' together. you can read the Introduction, Chapter 1, and a few pages of Chapter 2 at the link.

we are going to be focusing on the chapter, "God is good", which brings up lots of conflicting ideas about suffering etc. so, read the chapter, do the soul training, and come along this sunday ready to share your experience and to learn from one another. don't forget to try to learn the first four verses of Colossians 2, yes, by heart! 


don't worry if you haven't been reading the chapters, come anyway!!!