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<description><![CDATA[ St John&#039;s Minster Anglican Church has been serving Lloydminster Saskatchewan/Alberta area since 1903.  Everyone is welcome to join us each Sunday as we celebrate our faith. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Flubbed it, or Not? ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  “Flubbed it, or not?”Meditation – Sunday, May 14, 2023Acts 17:22-31 (Forward, p. 16) CEV p. 1156 For such a straightforward, and seemingly unremarkable ep ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ &quot;Maintaining one&#039;s focus&quot; ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  “Maintaining one’s focus” Meditation – Wednesday, February 8, 20232 Timothy 1:15- 2:13 (Forward, p. 10) CEV p. 1250 Timothy is Paul’s young protégé and ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Need of Fruitfulness ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   FolksMy meditation for today, and its accompanying Scripture passage, touches on the subject of fruitfulness, which is, to my way of thinking, a rather imp ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ A Demonstration Plot ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “A demonstration plot”Meditation – Saturday, February 25, 2023Titus 3:1-15 (Forward, p. 27) CEV p. 1254 Something that was used to great effect in the ear ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ &quot;Keep on, Keeping on&quot; ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Keep on, keeping on”Meditation – Tuesday, February 7, 20232 Timothy 1:1-14 (Forward, p. 9) CEV p. 1249 Timothy is a young Christian, and a young Christian ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ What in the world is He thinking? ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   “What in the world is He thinking?”  Meditation – Monday, February 6, 2023Isaiah 58:1-12 (Forward, p. 8) CEV p. 752 God really knows how to ‘overturn ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Archdeacon Michael ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Live like you mean it ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Live like you mean it” Meditation – Sunday, February 5, 2023Isaiah 58:1-12 (Forward, p. 7) CEV p. 752 Jesus continually had words of reproof and critici ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Really? ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Really?” Meditation – Saturday, February 4, 2023Psalm 23 (Forward, p. 6) CEV p. 568 As greatly known and loved as this psalm happens to be, I wonder how ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Archdeacon Michael ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The civil war within ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “The civil war within”Meditation – Friday, February 3, 2023Galatians 5:16-26 (Forward, p. 5) CEV p. 1219 Jesus once said that a house (or family) divided ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Archdeacon Michael ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Faithful Remnant ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “The faithful remnant” Meditation – Thursday, February 2, 2023Luke 2:22-40 (Forward, p. 4) CEV p. 1057 Some of the ‘official class’, such as the Pharis ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Archdeacon Michael Stonhouse ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Knowing what we are asking for ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  “Knowing what we are asking for”Meditation – Wednesday, February 1, 2023Psalm 72 (Forward, p. 3) CEV p. 597 Canadians in particular should be especially ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rev Michael Stonhouse ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ And you didn&#039;t even realize it ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  “And you didn’t even realize it” Meditation – Monday, January 30, 2023 Galatians 4:1-11 (Forward, p. 93) CEV p. 1218 Do you think that Paul’s audience ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rev Michael Stonhouse ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Communion Rail ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Did you know?? The Alter Rail or Communion Rail surrounds the most sacred area in the church, the space around the alter, giving us a place to kneel and re ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ A New Year, A New View ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   Open your heart, to receive.  Maybe it&#039;s more a need to open your mind to see.We are all different, we are all the same, we are all part of a bigger plan. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Donations ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  In order to continue and grow our programming, worship, and outreach, St John&#039;s Anglican Church depends on community support. If you wish to donate to St J ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Hospitality, Opening your Heart ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  We are instructed to show hospitality to strangers, for unknown to us we may be entertaining angels without knowing it. (Hebrews 13:2)  Has anyone entered ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Muriel Foster ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ World Day of Prayer, March 3/22 ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:38:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Wedding in Cana ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ John 2:1-11, Wedding in Cana1 Corinthians 12.1-11,  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that w ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rev Jessie ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 20:23:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ SPIRITUAL POVERTY ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   SPIRITUAL POVERTY                                            November 7, 2021 The world we live in  can be very distracting.  Everything in it gets brok ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ 12th Sunday after Pentecost ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 2 Samuel 18:24-33 Now David was sitting between the two gates. The sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he looked up, he saw a man ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ 11th Sunday after Pentecost ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   First Lesson       2 Samuel 18:1, 5, 9-15 Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hund ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ 10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE 10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST FIRST LESSON2 SAMUEL 12.15b-24 The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became very ill.  David ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ 9th Sunday after Pentecost ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[   FIRST LESSON2 SAMUEL 12:1 – 14 But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. And the Lord sent Nathan to David.  He came to him, and said to h ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:26:30 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ 8th Sunday after Pentecost ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 8th Sunday after Pentecost  Morning Prayer  July 18,2021Officiant: Reverend Muriel Foster  First Lesson: 2 Samuel 11.1-15In the spring of the year, the ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:40:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ 7th Sunday after Pentecost ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ THE 7TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTJULY 11, 2021MORNING PRAYER   FIRST LESSON Amos 7: 7-15 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 20:06:33 EDT</pubDate>
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