Category: Themes
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Our Music: We All Have A Creative Nature
by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood Singing is play, exercise, and pleasure for our soul. It is direct and comes from deep within us; it is the very air we breathe coupled with our creative energy and sensitivity. Everyone has their own song to sing. Members of the Spirit Choir have told me that…
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Families Growing Together: Children – Blissful in Their Unknown
by Margaret Evans, Director of Lifespan Learning This month, take some time to sit with your family. Ask them about their fears, about their desires, about those dreams that escape them. Ask each other about what the unknown means to them. Watching small children play is a glimpse into true authenticity. They are not concerned…
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Our Music: An Uncharted Journey
by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood Before I became your Music Director, I had never served a religious community or been a choir director. I was entering completely unknown territory. I had a lot of doubts and questions that I continue to ask myself. Would I be able to do what is expected of…
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Families Growing Together: Our Children And Wisdom
by Margaret Evans, Director of Lifespan Learning Trying to describe wisdom to young children and youth is a daunting task. Using language to describe it may actually take you further away from its truth than when you first began. Wisdom is best shown through action. Because it is elusive to many people, wisdom calls others…
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Our Music: Seeking Wisdom In Our Hymn-Singing
by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood Making music together allows our shy souls to come out and play together. There is a wisdom that comes through opening ourselves to allow our souls to become vulnerable. Singing does that; we are literally putting ourselves out there. A bond forms in a community that sings together,…
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Our Theme For October: The Call
Click here to go to The Call, which opens a page including, movies, stories, meditation, chanting, quotes and personal stories about being called.
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Our Music: The Call, Morning Chants and more …
by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood My Calling “The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” – Frederick Buechner Having a vocation or hearing the call to a particular life originally referred to what God had planned for one. I have been called to…
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Families Growing Together: The Call
by Margaret Evans, Director of Lifespan Learning Our Children — The Call With the internet at their fingertips, our children are surrounded by a mediated world more intimately than they ever have been. They see images that challenge them, both positively and negatively, in worlds of which some of us could never dream. These images…
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Our Music: The Hero's Journey
by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood I will never forget the first time I listened to Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) by Richard Strauss. It was during my composition undergrad at McGill and I was sitting in my basement apartment lost in the orchestral soundscape created by the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner. What…
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Heroes – Theme for September 2014
“All know the way; few actually walk it.” – Bodhidharma Click here for content on Heroes theme.