00:23:19 beverly: sounds great 00:23:20 Mary Schueneman: Sounds great, Simon! 00:23:22 Kris Judd: It sounds perfect to me 00:23:24 Jennifer Bellair: perfect to my ears 00:23:25 Darlene Tucker: sounds beautiful 00:23:28 Abbey of the Arts: Beautiful Simon 00:23:30 Sr Madeleine Cleverly: sounds fine to me 00:23:31 Martina Duncan: Sounds good here in Ashcroft, BC. 00:23:32 Ann McGovern: sounds great 00:23:33 Janet Nall: perfect 00:23:39 Janice Ellis: its wonderfully beautiful 00:23:40 Minnie, Tseshaht & Hupacasht: Sound great 00:23:47 Judith Plotner: Seems balanced. 00:23:56 Nancy Dailey: So good to see and hear you, Simon. 00:24:40 Shelley Ottawa: Hello from Ottawa Canada 00:25:40 Jennifer Bellair: Good morning everyone from Jennifer in Nth NSW Australia 00:26:06 Tiffini Adams: Peace and blessings from Park City, Utah. 00:26:12 Julia Wickham: Good evening everyone and blessings from foggy London! 00:26:15 Wayne Manne: Hello from Mary Lou and Wayne in Brisk Brampton Ontario 00:26:19 Jeannie Anderson-West: blessings from Jeannie in Sacramento CA 00:26:26 Jen Davidson: Love from Lincoln, Nebraska 00:26:31 Laura Vaughan: Blessings from Shreveport, LA 00:26:43 Averill Jones: Blessings from Decatur, GA! 00:26:50 Suzanne Mason: Greetings to all from Suzanne in Fredericton, NB Canada 00:26:53 Melanie Ihmels: Hi from Victoria BC, Canada! 00:26:54 michele Hogan: Blessing from the Oregon Coast 00:27:02 Susan Wald: hello from Canberra, Australia 00:27:08 Tanya Loretto: Advent peace to all from Vancouver BC 00:27:12 Rachel M: Blessings + peace from Rachel, Leek, England xx 00:27:13 Petra Pryce: Peace and blessings from Devon in the UK. 00:27:18 Margaret M. Trzebiatowski: Advent greetings from WI 00:27:33 Kayce Hughlett: Greetings from Seattle . Hi Michele in Oregon <3 00:27:37 Anne MacDermaid: blessings from Kingston Canada 00:27:45 Cindo Peterson: Breathing In and gently Breathing Out a blessing of peace for all gathered here today~ 00:28:02 Brenda Bayne: Greeting from West Sussex. Gratitude to Christine and Simon for these services. 00:28:23 Julie Gilmour: Simon, I so love and appreciate your music! From Seattle, WA 00:28:43 Maria Theresa Portelli: Beautiful music... hello from Malta 00:28:47 Kris Judd: Greetings from Des Moines, Iowa - I receive such blessings from this time with all of you 00:28:57 Laurel Gauld: blessings from Edmonton Alberta Canada. So happy to share with you. 00:29:14 garoian@charter.net Aroian: Hello dear ones. Peace to your hearts .Gayle in Massachusetts 00:29:26 Bonnie Giunta: Hello from Dallas, TX. 00:29:37 Caroline Cargo: Hello from the village of Cazenovia, NY 00:29:37 Nancy Thielmann: Advent greetings to all from Monte Sereno, Ca! 00:29:57 Linda Miller: Blessings from Frederick, Maryland 00:30:09 Karin vlietstra: Greetings from Amsterdam! Thank you Christine and Samuel fot organizing these gatherings. 00:30:14 Michael Culloty: Blessing on all from Tralee,Ireland 00:30:21 Karen Colenbrander: Greetings from Mississauga, ON, Canada 00:30:28 Deborah Kohler: hello from Kalamazoo MI USA 00:30:32 Jack Gentile: Greetings from Cape Cod, MA 00:31:05 Kathryn Chapman: Advent Blessings from Alberta, Canada 00:31:08 Terry Crowl: Blessings to all from Virginia! 00:31:14 Maria Theresa Portelli: "Holy birthing" - a very touching phrase! 00:31:18 Diann Castiaux: From: Diann Castiaux, Greetings and blessings from New Jersey, USA 00:32:08 Wendy Cabell: Blessings from the teeny town of Alsea Oregon 00:32:33 garoian@charter.net Aroian: wow 00:32:33 Michael Moore: Advent Blessings from Carrollton, Georgia, USA 00:32:36 garoian@charter.net Aroian: truth 00:33:01 Susan Vander Woude: Perfect poem for our times! Thank you! 00:33:30 Wendy Cabell: who was that author of the poem 00:33:43 Abbey of the Arts: Madeleine L'Engle 00:34:06 Wendy Cabell: thanks : ) 00:34:23 Katharine: On December 21, Solstice, there will be an astrological phenomenon, the first in 800+ years, with Jupiter and Saturn close to each other, joining their respective light to appear on Earth as the Christmas Star. May we have clear skies around the world to witness this holy light. 00:35:07 Michael Moore: Yes, when the fire doesn’t feel like it is lit within… it shines. Thank you, Simon! 00:40:42 Wendy Cabell: of His sandal.....ground of our being 00:41:18 Suzanne Mason: baptized with the Holy Spirit 00:42:25 William Dingas: am not worthy 00:42:49 Wendy Cabell: washed clean, at the ground of our being 00:43:19 Mary MacIlvain: crying out in the wilderness 00:43:28 Brenda Giordano: Baptism of Repentance - Baptize with the Holy Spirit 00:43:52 Rachel M: all the people of jerusalem were going out to him…. 00:43:54 Margaret M. Trzebiatowski: messenger....voice 00:44:07 Christine Patterson: Prepare the way of the Lord… 00:44:18 Gwen Gustafson-Zook: Prepare the way 00:44:23 Laura Vaughan: My messenger...prepare...I am not worthy... 00:44:40 Karen Colenbrander: ALL the people! 00:44:42 Katharine: like wild honey so the sweetness of baptism by Holy Spirit 00:44:48 William Dingas: As it is written 00:44:56 Michael Moore: Proclaimed, proclaiming… As I prepare for recording worship and my sermon on Wednesday I was drawn to the word proclaimed. What did John the Baptist proclaim? He proclaimed the radical Good News! The question that popped into my heart and head was this: Have we domesticated the Good News? Food for thought as I continue to reflect on the message for the Third Sunday of Advent. 00:45:00 Petra Pryce: the wilderness 00:45:03 garoian@charter.net Aroian: honoring my grandmothers and how they prepared for Christmas.....makes them feel close.....but it is not "business as usual".... this year....for me now a different way to Prepare. Did my grandmothers Prepare for new Birth and I just wasn't aware of it, young as I was?! 00:45:22 Matte Downey: appeared in the wilderness 00:45:29 Susan Wald: make space, prepare the way 00:46:06 Ev Ward de Roo: How do I prepare the way for others to know the Holy Spirit’s presence in their lives 00:46:14 Wendy Cabell: wahing light, prepares path 00:46:21 Ann McGovern: we are spirit filled via our baptism 00:46:35 Karen Colenbrander: Stoop down and untie 00:46:39 Harmony Harrison: I asked in my heart, “St. Mark, why all the focus on clothes and food?” And he says, “Because all of these people were full human beings with human needs, just like you.” 00:46:39 Wendy Cabell: washing light, prepares path 00:46:54 Jean Lupinacci: prepare. am I the messenger? 00:47:01 Martina Duncan: "make his paths straight" ??? How do I/we do that? 00:47:04 Terry Crowl: make his paths straight 00:47:09 Becky Crane: the whole Judean countryside...confessing; we do not do confession well as a whole; I feel called to hold others by the hand, and have them hold me as we go to the river together 00:47:11 Cathy Cuenin: clothed with camel's hair...ate locusts and wild honey 00:47:13 connie wilson: Appear to us Christ, let us make the path together 00:47:18 Minnie, Tseshaht & Hupacasht: crying, the sweet spirit of connection 00:47:32 Darlene Tucker: who will prepare your way" I just need to allow and surrender. 00:47:59 Karen Hackett: And, he ate locusts and wild honey... 00:48:53 beverly: I wanted my phrase to be Prepare Ye The Way sung like the Godspell soundtrack and instead Wild Honey came up, a freedom and a straight path to the divine 00:49:42 Janice Sealey: wild honey; Holy Spirit 00:53:30 Maria Theresa Portelli: This silence is like the wild honey! How much we need silence! 00:56:41 Bonnie Giunta: Be still and know… 00:56:46 Deborah Kohler: crying out in the wilderness 00:56:49 Linda Miller: the voice of ONE crying out 00:56:50 Annette Pearson: Prepare the way 00:56:53 Diane Morrison: The Holy Spirit 00:56:54 Sally Nettles: prepare the way 00:56:55 Susan Kasper: the wilderness 00:57:01 Ann McGovern: know 00:57:07 serene ri: the way of the Lord 00:57:08 Sally Nettles: messenger 00:57:09 Darlene Tucker: be still and KNOW 00:57:10 Kris Judd: The One who is more powerful than I 00:57:11 Flash Laski: beeeeeee 00:57:12 Susan Rush: be still and know 00:57:12 Christina Lelache: see I am sending 00:57:14 Stephanie Warfield: Crying out in the wilderness of wild honey, untie me. 00:57:16 Rita Gramme: Baptized with the Spirit 00:57:17 Christine Harland: he will baptise you with the holy spirit 00:57:17 Jeannie Anderson-West: prepare ye the way prepare prepare 00:57:19 Sharon van der Laan: Wait for the Spirit 00:57:22 Sue Hickman: One crying in the wilderness. Baptize you in the Holy Spirit.. 00:57:23 Melanie Ihmels(she, her): cried out, despite all that is happening in the world I am still called to cry out as the messenger of the Lord 00:57:34 Susan Kasper: I am in the wilderness - I can't find you. Where are you - I used to know? 00:57:35 Julie Gilmour: One more powerful is coming after me… (we open the door and the spirit comes in) 00:57:39 Terry Crowl: be still to make his path straight in my heart 00:57:40 Nancy Husk: Connected, not alone, through the Holy Spirit 00:57:40 Sharon Schmit: filled to over flowing 💕 00:57:43 Jack Gentile: Such humility - a lesson for us! 00:57:43 Debbie Huff: Prepare…. baptize. But am I to be baptized or am I being called to baptize. 00:57:48 Rosemary Hall: word was wilderness; invitation to allow Spirit into the wild, untamed parts of my life 00:57:53 Sara Mullarkey: It’s okay to be in the wilderness, that’s where John was. 00:57:53 Tanya Loretto: Wild. I am passionate for the Holy. 00:57:57 michele Hogan: hold the preciousness of all that is in the stable of my heart 00:58:05 William Dingas: In the end God has the last word 00:58:06 Jennifer Bellair: baptise me in the Holy Spirit afresh Lord 00:58:12 Averill Jones: Make the path straight….opening my heart to the message of the Light of Love 00:58:15 Nancy Dailey: Never before aware of how much movement there is in the Isaiah reading - Prepare, Pave the way, Going, Coming. 00:58:17 Anne Wicks: "who will prepare your way" - I heard this as a question, and my response ... "I will!" ... how to prepare the way in this pandemic time ... the way of Love, Compassion and Radical Hospitality ... open hands, open heart ... open to discovering creative ways to cultivate Presence in absence ... 00:58:36 Susan Vander Woude: Lord, make me know your ways? The HS leads us and helps us to know! 00:58:53 Shane Tippett: The One who is more powerful that I is coming...power enough for my doubt and darkness. Power enough to reassure me about the Spirit's presence, strength, affection, compassion, joy 01:01:09 Dorothy Pennell: All affected by covid-19 01:01:10 Sally Nettles: for new beginnings 01:01:15 Rachel M: for Lin, Becks, Karen, Nick, Nigel. 01:01:15 William Dingas: For those seeking their home. 01:01:18 Caroline Cargo: for ruth in el salvador 01:01:25 Rita Gramme: Continuing to prayer for my disabled daughter that a place is found for her and her daughter. A home to rest. 01:01:26 Rachel M: for anna in peru 01:01:28 Christine Patterson: Prepare the way of the Lord, by being still and knowing I am God, in being still , we can prepare the way of the Lord. 01:01:35 Petra Pryce: For Jenny, for healing x 01:01:37 Debbie Huff: All those who are grieving. 01:01:38 Char peterson: For Nancy as she braves her cancer treatments 01:01:42 Shelley Ottawa: For A in Ottawa 01:01:43 Darlene Tucker: Prepare me! Free me from the fear and anxiety that this Covid time brings... 01:01:44 Lynne Martin: For all those denied the blessing of human touch. 01:01:44 Debbie Huff: For continued healing in families 01:01:52 Kayce Hughlett: for my beautiful friend who is watching her child disappear before her eyes. hold her as she grieves. 01:01:53 Nancy Husk: For isolated teens to know they are loved 01:01:55 Karen Hackett: for those who’ve lost someone they love. 01:02:00 Linda Butler: Penny and Mark - heal them, Lord 01:02:00 Harmony Harrison: May Sara be held in the arms of the Divine, and may all who love her be comforted in this time of grief. 01:02:00 Jean Lupinacci: For my brother, Stephen, who is currently in surgery 01:02:02 Linda Miller: Prayers for the community of Middle Collegiate Church in NYC that had a devastating fire 01:02:07 Martha Caveda: For wisdom and peace. 01:02:09 Brenda Giordano: For 16 y/o Mercy who is very sick from chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma 01:02:10 Jennifer Bellair: for Judith & Auceli 01:02:12 Susan Rush: for Stella..anxiety over covid 01:02:13 Sharon Schmit: For those who have lost loved ones 01:02:16 Nancy Thielmann: For my brother, Frank, that God will touch him with her great love and compassion. For those who cannot pay their rent or afford to feed their families. Touch those of us who have something to give to reach out and give in whatever ways we come. 01:02:24 Martina Duncan: For my dear friend, Emily, whose husband died this morning in palliative care. Soothe her heart . . . 01:02:29 Sharon Schmit: for those who are feeling alone 01:02:38 Sr Madeleine Cleverly: For truth and honesty of heart to find himself for BB 01:02:44 Julie Gilmour: Alors, age 4, with glioma cancer; Sol, in psychosis; Anula with ovarian cancer; Betty Carol with Covid; the division and violence of the world; refugees 01:02:44 Kathy O: Prayers for healing of the United States of America, and wisdom for our leaders. 01:02:48 Michael Moore: For Gracie, the six month old grand niece of a friend and former parishioner… she undergoes her third open heart surgery on Thursday 01:02:49 Terry Crowl: For our hearts to be open to the path Love calls us to. 01:02:50 Mary MacGillivray: Peggy, Barbara Sergi 01:02:51 Roberta Kearney: for all coping with COVID, for all health care workers, aides, custodians, and all who suffer from COVID mild, severe and life threatening. May we practice care for one another. 01:02:53 Averill Jones: Prayers for healing and comfort for Rob. For Susan a caregiver. For Ilyse and Faruk. Prayers for peaceful transitions in Government in the US. For Bob and Judith. 01:03:03 Ann McGovern: peace and love May they flow out to all 01:03:03 Harmony Harrison: For Jim and all who are faced directly and indirectly with COVID 01:03:08 Susan Rush: RIP Ginger 01:03:12 loretta Watts: for my daughter's sick cat Max 01:03:15 Karen Colenbrander: For family members and friends who are far geographically, and / or spiritually 01:03:19 Kathryn Chapman: for comfort in the grief of the death of our dear Craig 01:03:28 Patti Joy Posan: That Dylan (22) will find the will to live and know he is loved ... 01:03:45 loretta Watts: For Connie who lost her partner George yesterday 01:03:46 Susan Kasper: Bless Dylan Lord! 01:03:51 Annette Pearson: All those who are homeless. 01:03:52 Julia Wickham: For Auntie Betty, nearing the end of her life 01:04:01 Nancy Dailey: For all those in my family who are estranged from one another, that their hearts may find a way to meet even as their belief systems crash. 01:04:10 Melanie Ihmels(she, her): For those waiting on bated breath in BC to see where we will be going in the face of Covid increases in our community. 01:04:12 Averill Jones: For Taylor who has Covid diagnosis for the second time. 01:04:16 Mary MacGillivray: For my family and friends, protection for all during this time of covid. 01:04:17 Tanya Loretto: For Mary who is grieving and struggling to live on her own. 01:04:23 Elaine Thiessen: a family who lost their 15 year old son to cancer two weeks ago…and for the school friends and community 01:04:27 garoian@charter.net Aroian: that we, gathered here, will remember this wee community. 01:04:38 Kathy O: For Teresa who recently lost her father. 01:04:40 Averill Jones: For those who struggle with addiction. 01:04:51 garoian@charter.net Aroian: Prayers for Christine and John 01:05:32 beverly: last night as I walked a friends dog, the spirit of my beloved ali mcbeagle came to me through this other dog, I felt so blessed and comforted. 01:05:49 Susan Gallegos: Thanks for the change from Lord to Love - one of my favorites from Taize tho I never cared for “Lord” 01:06:21 beverly: Thank you 01:06:37 Kathy O: Protection for all four-footed beings who journey with us. 01:06:58 Averill Jones: Thanksgiving for Christine and John and Simon 01:07:02 Harmony Harrison: Prayers for Mother Earth, Mother Ocean 01:07:18 Michael Moore: A beautiful transition from Lord to Love. Thank you, Simon! 01:07:51 Deborah Kohler: It would be nice if we sang that in the first person plural instead of singular. 01:07:55 Nancy Thielmann: For my daughter, Allioson, that she will discover the beauty and love within that God has placed within her. 01:08:03 Jeannie Anderson-West: prayers for dearest Dave during his chemo treatments 01:08:25 Janice Ellis: Katarina and chemo 01:08:40 Harmony Harrison: For little Evelyn and her healing 01:08:43 Kathy O: been late for everything today--feeling "off"--let me slow down and catch up, thank you God. 01:10:26 Michael Moore: What a beautiful poem and poem/song 01:11:56 Annette Pearson: Simon, so beautiful! Thank you! 01:11:57 Katharine: That was beautiful, Simon. 01:12:03 Annette Pearson: Thanks, Christine! 01:12:06 Melanie Ihmels(she, her): Thank you so much for this! 01:12:10 Ann McGovern: thank you 01:12:10 loretta Watts: What a blessing! 01:12:13 Deborah Kohler: I only like poetry when I can hear it read aloud. These last two weeks of poetry readings - the selection as well as the listening - have been gifts to my soul 01:12:13 Lynne Lew: Thank you! 01:12:15 Anne MacDermaid: thank you!🎄🙏 01:12:22 Tanya Loretto: In thanksgiving for you both and your sharing your gifts 01:12:22 Kris Judd: thank you both! 01:12:24 Minnie, Tseshaht & Hupacasht: Thank you 01:12:25 Janice Sealey: Thank you Simon and Chrstine! 01:12:27 Harmony Harrison: Thank you! Much love to all 01:12:28 Linda Miller: Thank you for bringing us together- to be. 01:12:29 Gwen Gustafson-Zook: Be well! 01:12:29 Julia Wickham: Thank you Christine, Simon and everyone. Very precious, poignant and peaceful moments 01:12:30 Nancy Husk: Thank you, Christine, Simon, and John and to the community of the Abbey which sustains me. 01:12:30 Martha Caveda: Thank you so much for this beautiful service and gathering. Blessings! 01:12:32 Susan Wald: thank you, that was lovely 01:12:35 Char peterson: Very Grateful for this time - thank you!! 01:12:35 Anne Wicks: Thank you, Christine and Simon, for this beautiful gift on a Monday morning ... love and gratitude to you and your loved ones.