Outline for the wedding service of Karl Clemens and Nicholas Burger.
OUTLINE FOR WEDDING SERVICE GATHERING Prelude/Music Entrance (procession) Greeting/Welcome P:            The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. All:            And also with you. P:            Friends, we are gathered here today in the presence of God and of one another to share together to bless the public commitment of Karl Clemens and Nicholas Burger to a lifelong covenant of fidelity and mutuality. The bond of marriage was given by God who created us to be in covenant and community. We acknowledge the reality of human failu

Investing for Justice
For 25 years the Canadian Alternative Investment Co-operative (CAIC) has pooled investment resources of Canadian charities, currently all faith based, to work towards a transforming, more just and equitable society. Worker co-ops, women’s shelters, community loan funds and resource centres have found in CAIC a source of funds to help achieve a shared vision of a world where the gifts of creation are more readily available for all. CAIC has worked with fair trade initiatives such as La Siembra.  CAIC has worked with hou

Thoughts on Strike Breaking
It’s been a long time since the Honourable David Croll resigned from the Ontario cabinet stating “I would rather walk with the workers than ride with General Motors.” It recent times it has almost become a badge of honour for politicians to oppose organised labour, up to and including organising strike breaking efforts. This became very apparent in the recent strike by employees of the City of Toronto.   City Councillor

THOUGHTS ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. CLARE’S
I wish to thank all of you for coming together in this celebration of 10 years of work in developing affordable housing, joining together to share with the staff and board of St. Clare’s as well look forward to two new projects—150 Sudbury and 200 Madison—being brought to life. This has been a very long and very short ten years. St. Clare’s came together because there w

NOTES FOR A MORE COHERENT SERMON – JUST LIKE STARTING OVER
NOTES FOR A MORE COHERENT SERMON: 11:00 a.m.., October 18, 2009 St. Andrew’s Old Catholic Church Small Meeting Room, 138 Pears Ave. Toronto, Ontario 1st Lesson: Ephesians 4: 17 – 32 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have