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Rachel Twigg's sermon on John 9:1-41, for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. This sermon was offered on the first Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video...

Due to the suspension of all liturgies and gatherings in our diocese, we were unable to gather this past Wednesday for our Lenten series of stories of call and vocation. We did, however, arrange to interview our scheduled speaker, The Rev’d Vincent Solomon. Vincent is a member of Norway House Cree Nation, a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Urban Indigenous Ministry Developer for th...

Archbishop Linda Nicholls, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, speaks with Jamie Howison about the difficult days we are enduring and what lies ahead for people of faith. She reminds us that for a time like this we must remember that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Stay up to date on how the church is dealing with these unprecedented events on our For A Time Like This   web...

Jamie Howison's sermon on John 4:5-42, for the Third Sunday in Lent. This sermon was preached into a critical context, as our Bishop had only recently called for the suspension of all church gatherings as of Monday March 16, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Comment on this episode on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We i...

“Contagion is real, but it doesn’t just work for viruses. It works for kind words and generous thoughts, and acts of selflessness and honesty." Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times -- -- -- For A Time Like This looks at how Christians came to be known as contagious people. Sharing love and compassion as fast as illness spread from person to person. That call to love our neighbour as ourselve...

This is the first of several special editions of the saint benedict’s table podcast. As we all face the uncertainties of a global pandemic, we sense that For A Time Like This we need to come closer as the body of Christ, even if we are not able to do so in person. In this episode, the Right Reverend Geoff Woodcroft, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land delivers a brief message to t...

For the 2020 Lenten season, we’re presenting a series of five evening sessions featuring various members of our community telling stories related to their own sense of calling or vocation. For this second episode in the series, Sharon Cadigan shares a highly personal story that begins in what she describes as a “dark night of the soul,” and is marked by both learning and insight and by loss and gr...

In this episode Jamie Howison engages a conversation with the vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman. John Weber of National Public Radio has called Chris, “A true virtuoso on the vibes,” and described him as, “An extremely gifted young composer, bandleader, recording artist, and much sought-after sideman.” He is also someone who brings a rather unique vision as to how music can be a source of pe...

Rachel Twigg's sermon on Psalm 121, Numbers 21:5-9 and John 3:1-17, for the 2nd Sunday in Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and we invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg , whe...

For the 2020 Lenten season, we’re presenting a series of five evening sessions featuring various members of our community telling stories related to their own sense of calling or vocation.  In this first episode we have two speakers, each addressing how creation care has become a part of their sense of Christian calling. The first speaker is Zoe Matties, the Manitoba program director for A Rocha C...

In this episode Jamie Howison shares a conversation with Ike Sturm, bassist and composer, and the Music Director for the Jazz Ministry at St Peter’s Church in Manhattan.  Downbeat Magazine awarded Ike’s Jazz Mass album four and a half stars, describing it as “an excellent work that melds jazz and the mass genre together extremely well,” and noting that it “exudes serenity, peacefulness and a still...

Jamie Howison's sermon on Matthew 4:1-11, for the 1st Sunday in Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and we invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg , where we’ve been making great...

For centuries the Christian church has organized the year into liturgical seasons. In so doing, it makes sacred the ordinary time of a twelve-month calendar.  By sanctifying our hours and days this way the  church traces the mystery of salvation and the course of salvation history.  Lent is the forty-day liturgical season stretching from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Eve. In this episode of our...

For centuries the Christian church has organized the year into liturgical seasons. In so doing, it makes sacred the ordinary time of a twelve-month calendar.  By sanctifying our hours and days this way the church traces the mystery of salvation and the course of salvation history. Not every denomination observes the church calendar. Even within the Anglican communion there is some confusion about...

A sermon by Rachel Twigg on Matthew 17:1-9 from February 23, 2020, the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and we invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Wi...

In this episode Jamie Howison interviews Archbishop Linda Nicholls, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Archbishop Nicholls was elected to the office of Primate at the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, held in July 2019.  At the time of her election she was serving as Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, and prior to that as Area Bishop of the Trent-Durham region in the Diocese...

A sermon on Matthew 5:21-37 by Jamie Howison, offered on February 16, 2020 at saint benedict's table. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topic...

Jamie Howison speaks with Malcolm Guite, a priest, chaplain to Girton College in Cambridge, theologian, musician and poet. The author of not only theological books but also numerous collections of poetry, Malcolm’s latest book is After Prayer: New sonnets and other poems, published in November 2019 by Canterbury Press. In an endorsement for the 2012 Sounding the Seasons collection, the former Arch...

A sermon by Jamie Howison on Isaiah 58:1-12 and Matthew 5:13-20 , offered on February 9, 2020. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and...

A sermon for Candlemas - The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord - on Luke 2:22-40, offered by Rachel Twigg on February 2, 2020. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider...

An Epiphanytide sermon on Isaiah 9:1-4 and Matthew 4:12-23 by Jamie Howison. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the c...

The Shape of Our Life is a series of eight poems written by Kyla Neufeld for saint benedict’s table during the summer of 2019. These poems centre around the liturgy, Eucharist and symbols of our worshipping community. The poems were the result of Kyla's term as a saint ben's artist-in-residence. In this podcast Sharon Cadigan is in conversation with Kyla and together they unpack the poem...

An Epiphanytide sermon by Rachel Twigg, on Isaiah 49:1-7 and John 1:29-42. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the con...

On a cold and snowy night in January a full house gathered at Hildegarde’s Bakery in Winnipeg, in the wintery centre of Canada. We were there looking for hope.  Our guide was Zoe Matties, a member of saint benedict’s table and the Manitoba program director for A Rocha Canada. That’s an international Christian environmental group writing a new story of possibility and hope while the depressing and...

Rachel Twigg's sermon from January 12, 2020 - The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord - on Isaiah 42:1-9 and Matthew 3:13-17