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		<title>Reclaiming Jesus and The Poor People’s Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 19:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rise up, rise up! Christian leaders in the United States have launched two parallel campaigns for a moral re-engagement in public policies. The Poor People’s Campaign is a “National Call for Moral Revival [that is] is uniting tens of thousands of people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Disturbance of Deacons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 19:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Michael Shapcott More than 90 vocational (permanent) deacons from the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Eastern Christian churches gathered for an international forum on the diaconate in Regina in mid-May. The deacons came from Scotland, England, United States and Canada – including Michael Shapcott, deacon at Church of the Holy Trinity – Trinity Square. “It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Christian response to climate crisis</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone is welcome to join in week three of our exploration of former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s book Faith in the Public Square. He begins his chapter on a Christian response to the climate crisis with these words: “The nature of [the climate] crisis could be summed up rather dramatically by saying that it’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dethroning Mammon &#8211; Sunday Morning Forums</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday, February 25 is not only our annual Vestry meeting at Church of the Holy Trinity &#8211; Trinity Square; it’s also the final Sunday in our current pre-worship forum series on Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s Lenten book “Dethroning Mammon, Making Money Serve Grace”. Make sure to mark your calendar for 9 am in the Trinity Cafe, followed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Revelations: Advent Sunday Morning Forums</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Book of Revelation… stuffed full of monsters and other nightmares and visions of heaven floating down from the sky: What could that possibly have to do with Advent? Why, there is not a single reference to Santa Claus or elves or reindeer or mangers or shepherds in any of the 22 chapters of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>National Housing Strategy Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Michael Shapcott On the second Tuesday of every month, two dozen or more people gather at the south doors of Holy Trinity for a memorial to remember, by name, those who have died on Toronto’s streets. The homeless memorial, which has close to 1,000 names, offers a small measure of dignity to people who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Homily: November 18 2017</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Isaiah 58: 1 to 12 Psalm: 72: 1 to 15a Revelation 21: 1 to 4 Luke 10: 25-37 Good morning. None of our lessons, not even the Psalm, were appointed for reading today. So, I’ll start by revealing the hidden agenda behind today’s worship: Driving our hearts and minds towards the third of our strategic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CSI Gesthemane</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;While I still smart with the memory of that ruler striking my left wrist many years ago, I know that this is mild compared to the abuse, rejection, death, disease and discrimination measured in a thousand brutal ways that many have experienced through misogyny, colonialism, slavery, homophobia and too many other wrongs. &#8221; The full [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Walking Holy Trinity’s Parish Bounds (followed by Lunch)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saturday, July 22, 2017 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM The Holy Trinity Strategic Planning Committee, as part of the environmental scan phase of our process, invites you to join us for a walk around the parish boundary (Queen Street—University Avenue—College/Carlton Street—Jarvis Street). Bring a cell phone or camera to document things that catch your attention, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Prisons we choose to live in &#8211; Homily May 8, 2016</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shapcott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 18:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To see music and readings that surrounded this homily: HT bulletin Sun May 8, 2016 Easter 7 C God knows – Canada has more than enough jails. In 2013, the Correctional Commissioner for Canada reported to Parliament that the number of prisoners in federal and provincial jails was at an all-time high, even though crime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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