… and back with the Vancouver Unitarians

Back in Vancouver and right away back into the Unitarian community.  No market until June, but Cole is in charge of the opening words for today's service and here are his words:

"Good morning and welcome to the Unitarian Church of Vancouver.   My name is Cole Harris, and I am a member of the Worship Committee.   My wife Muriel and I have been away for the last six weeks, visiting family in Oxford, Ottawa and Montreal, and although we have had a wonderful time with children and grandchildren, I want to say how pleased we are to be back in this city, back among this congregation.  In Montreal three days ago, the early morning temperature was – 27 degrees Celsius.  Here jasmine and witch-hazel are in bloom.   In Oxford we were enmeshed in the rich, many-centuries-long texture of that wonderful place.   The night before we left, we attended evensong in Christ Church College cathedral: glorious early gothic architecture, glorious English male choral music, a service theologically unchanged, as far as I could judge, since the Council of Nicaea early in the fourth century AD.  Sitting there amid all that inherited beauty and theological rigidity, I though that one can be too pressed in upon by the past.  I thought of this church, of its open, experimental architecture, of its open, experimental congregation, and was sure that, in many ways, the advantage lies with us.   It is good to be back." 

UCV, half an hour beforehand - musicians getting sorted in one corner
Doco and today's speaker in the other 

Lily and Alice selling mushrooms at the market table last July
(photo from Rachel)