December 11, 2018 Today at St Aidan’s 830 am - Morning Prayer 600 pm - Wardens Meeting 730 pm - Parish Council Advent Act of Kindness Encourage One Another This Advent Act of Kindness seems simple enough. Of course we are going to encourage one another. Don’t we do that all the time? I... Continue Reading →

  December 10, 2018   Advent Act of Kindness Give Blood/Donate funds to Canadian Blood Services .  Now I know you are thinking, “you can carry these acts of kindness too far Kevin!” This Advent Act of Kindness really is an opportunity to give life itself. Half of all Canadians will either need blood or... Continue Reading →

Today at St Aidan’s 430 pm - Evening Prayer  December 8, 2018 Advent Act of Kindness Forgive Someone Who has Wronged you.  This Advent Act of Kindness puts our faith to the test. As people who follow in The Way of Jesus, we have ‘heard, read, learned, marked and inwardly digested many words of Scripture... Continue Reading →

Today at St Aidan’s 7 pm - Jazz by the Bog Denise Pelley December 7, 2018 Advent Act of Kindness Donate food to a local homeless shelter or food pantry, clothing to a clothing cupboard. This Advent Act of Kindness is straight from the call of Jesus to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. The... Continue Reading →

  Today at St Aidan’s 1030 am - Holy Communion 646 pm - Advent Vespers 730 pm - Learning to Walk in the Dark (Book Group) December 5, 2018 Advent Act of Kindness Have a Conversation with a friend & Focus on Active Listening This Advent Act of Kindness will be difficult for many of... Continue Reading →

Today at St Aidan’s 830 am - Morning Prayer 7pm - EfM December 4, 2018 Advent Act of Kindness Buy coffee for the person in line behind you. It’s not hard for most of us to conceive of buying a coffee for someone we know. But how about we take today as an opportunity to surprise the... Continue Reading →

Today at St Aidan’s 730 pm Book Parley at Crossings Pub December 3, 2018 Advent Act of Kindness Start a conversation with a stranger For some of you this will not seem like a big deal. For others this will be a terrifying proposition. Either way it’s an important Advent Act of Kindness. Whether this is... Continue Reading →

Who do YOU say Jesus is? In chapter 9 of Luke's gospel we read the following: Once when Jesus was praying by himself, the disciples joined him, and he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” They answered, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others that one of the ancient prophets... Continue Reading →

  Last summer I took up riding as a way to get healthier and to raise funds in support of the important work that St Aidan's is doing in our community.  My personal goal was to ride the distance from London, On to Quebec City, PC. That was 1000 km. At the time it was... Continue Reading →

With apologies for not blogging yesterday - I offer this brief reflection on the morning psalms from the Daily Office Lectionary. Psalm 56 God, have mercy on me because I’m being trampled. All day long the enemy oppresses me. My attackers trample me all day long because I have so many enemies. Exalted one, whenever... Continue Reading →