Virtual Voices 128th Edition Virtual Voices The Video E-Newsletter of Mount Royal United Church for Friday January 27th 2023 Welcome to our one-hundredth and twenty-eighth edition of the Mount Royal United Church Video E-Newsletter. You will find the video at the bottom of this message. If you have any news items or information you think we should be including in an upcoming e-newsletter, please send your suggestion to newsletters@mountroyaluc.ca
we will do our very best to put it on for you. A quick reminder that our Sunday Service is live streamed from the sanctuary beginning at 10:30 AM and can also be watched later on the church website. The Prelude will begin at 10:05 AM with music and the announcement slides before the service begins
with Rev. Stuart. This video will be produced and sent out weekly on Friday morning with all the important things from our faith community. We plan to keep them short so you have time to drink a cup of tea or coffee while you watch. We hope you have a very good day today. Best Regards, Newsletter Committee Message from the Chair of Council - Susan Fowler When recording Virtual Voices this week, I spoke about the plan to have a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper at Mount Royal this year. As soon as I gave the date, it occurred to me it seemed off. I said the pancake supper would be February 27th but in fact Shrove Tuesday falls on February 21st this year. Be sure to mark the 21st on your calendars and plan to attend. Thanks to those people who have already offered to help. Please advise Emily in the office or Erik Gingles if you can help out that evening. I also advised that M&P was meeting on Sunday Jan 29th after worship. In fact, that meeting is scheduled for February 5th. My apologies for that incorrect information on both counts. On a much sadder note, you may have heard that on Jan 12th, results of an investigation using ground penetrating radar identified up to 2000 anomalies in the grounds around former Fort Qu’Apelle Indian Residential School in LeBret, Saskatchewan. While it doesn’t necessarily mean all irregularities may be unmarked graves, it is suspected that may be the case for many of the areas tested and, if confirmed, it will provide evidence of what has long been suspected. Executive Minister Murray Pruden has offered a prayer for missing children and their communities and asked that it be shared for the people affected. You can read that prayer here: Creator, I pray for all our people. Today I especially hold Star Blanket First Nation and all the communities affected by the Lebret residential institution in prayer. I ask you to allow everyone to pause and listen. Our Ancestors call to us to speak Truth, to embrace Love and to encourage rightful Change. I ask that you bless all who need to be uplifted today and in the many days to come. I ask that you bless all who continue to seek and tell the truth. I ask you to allow our people to come together to support one another. And I ask that Creation continue to fulfill our need for healing. Creator, we give thanks for this life and ask for blessings for all our communities across this land. Lift our spirits so we can support and see one another as you see us. Your Creation, your Children. Hai hai for this life you give us. Amen. Perhaps you can hold this prayer in your hearts for all the people impacted by as unmarked graves on former Indian Residential Schools are identified. Susan Fowler Council Chair Mount Royal United Church, Moncton
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