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		<title>Lovingly Your Stars and Planets</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lovingly your stars and planets tread the blissful reach of space,where in their stupendous singing they return you grace for grace.Though we are a small creation, slight jewel in your crown of lights—you have made us too for learning Love’s demands and Love’s delights. Ceaselessly, without conditions, you have put the lover’s casewhile we spend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Let Justice Roll</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith Nunn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let justice roll, like a mighty riverA-movin’ fast, down to the seaIt will erode, all our foundations Touch every heart, and every nationLet justice roll, like a mighty river Through you and me, let justice roll And those who live by rule of powerWill find their swords turned into ploughsAnd all the rich, they shall [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Come and Follow</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Come and follow, follow me,&#8221; says our brother Jesus.&#8220;for my yoke will set you free from all fear and pretence.My way&#8217;s exodus and we shall soon leave behind uscruel oppression&#8217;s diligence, howsoever dang&#8217;rous.&#8221; As we journey, journey on, sometimes weary, cheerless:plundered earth and freedoms gone, greed, waste, slaughter wrong turns.Yet for ev&#8217;ry hurt that&#8217;s done [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lenten Psalm (also suitable for December)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winter of Toronto town has come                                                                                                    [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dry-Bone Valley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ezekiel 37:1-14 It's like trying to stay upright, scorched and breathless, in the blast of some sneezing rot-toothed dragon. This guided tour, God, is tough going. As vistas go, it's in questionable taste--hills bare-ribbed and drought-dried to the bone; Satan plays Lego with Rwandan skeletons, chews over the remains of hope in Darfur and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Canticle of High Park</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[North: We give thanks to the Creator Who fashioned this haven Now so busy yet so hospitable amid our second-order creations of steel, glass and concrete. East: We give thanks for the generosity and foresight that conserved this treasure. Yet we acknowledge that we are enjoying ourselves on land appropriated in bad faith, that early [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holy Trinity Psalter</title>
		<link>https://holytrinity.to/2020/12/holy-trinity-psalter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inclusive language paraphrases of the Psalms&#160;by Ian Sowton, Holy Trinity Community, 2005. Forward This is not a new translation of the Psalms.&#160; It is a contemporary rendition, a paraphrase, which has two guiding&#160;purposes: to provide a text that is first, inclusive throughout and second, useful for both public congregational worship and also for private devotions. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blessing for Waking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HTTO]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Richardson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blessing couldpound on your doorin the middle ofthe night. This blessing couldbang on your window,could tap dancein your hall,could set a dog loosein your room. It could hire abrass bandto play outsideyour house. But what this blessingreally wantsis not merelyyour wakingbut your company. This blessingwants to sitalongside youand keep vigilwith you. This blessingwishes to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Music of Creation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vivian harrower]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, September 27, Vivian led our morning gathering with the theme, The Music of Creation. We had a lively discussion of the theme together and you can now see and share the video of the service posted on our Youtube channel.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hymn for Easter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God’s love bursts into bloomdeep in the dark’s lament,and fills a startled tombwith lively, gracious scent;the stone gives way, death’s head is bruisedand dawn reveals a grave unused. Three loyal women bringspice to anoint their friend,but hear a Glory singCome see, no corpse to tend!What fearful joy! their wild sweet cryof hope salutes the sunrise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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