**Communion this Sunday**

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

First reading and Psalm

Joel 2:21-27

Psalm 126

Second reading

Timothy 2:1-7

Gospel

Matthew 6:25-33

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Listen in each week to "For the Coming Day" A weekly podcast contemplation and song inspired by the gospel reading.  Available at the link below (scroll down) or on your smartphone.  Produced by Aaron Parker and rev. Jonathan:
https://anchor.fm/for-the-coming-day

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There’s still a place for you.

Thursday, October 7 at 10:00 am

e-Mail Anne (wildrosie7@gmail.com) and she will send you this weeks excerpts from An Alter in the World.

Come and enjoy a relaxing time of  conversation on Thursdays as we  reflect together on excerpts from Barbara Brown Taylor‘s best selling  book,  An Altar in the World - a Geography of Faith. Taylor begins by reminding us of the words of the 12th century mystic, Mechtild of Magdeburg: “the day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw–and knew I saw–all thing in God and God in all things`.  It is in this spirit Taylor invites us to discover altars everywhere we go and in nearly everything we do. So bring your coffee and gather around the (virtual) kitchen table or perhaps just settle into a comfortable chair as we enjoy each other's company and delight in recognizing  the Holy in the Ordinary.

On the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, October 15th, 2021 at noon, the community is invited to celebrate the life of Rev. Dan Ash in a liturgy of Holy Communion.

Registration is required due to COVID-19 regulations, and will be available on this event page beginning this coming weekend.

The service will also be livestreamed via the main livestream link here (this uses Facebook Live which is accessible even if you don't have a Facebook account.

Reception details will be updated here when available.

Join us out front of the church for a warm fire, hot chocolate, and sweets on Halloween Night!

All social-distancing protocols in place.  Please keep 2m distance and use a mask to protect others.

Carved pumpkins needed!  If you would like to carve a pumpkin for the church, please drop it off within a day of the event.  Contact Jonathan or June Greig for details.

The 8am service has begun again in the chapel.  We are able to accomodate typical 8am numbers in that space, however, if you typically come to 10am and are planning to drop in please rsvp to Jonathan at rector@staugustinesedmonton.com or text/call 780-619-3170.

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