All the Best to You

All the Best to You - by the Buckley Family     Each year our family creates a card to mail out to friends, based on a song written by Dave, and through the past few years, recorded by everyone. This year’s project took a little longer than usual, and...

Since days of long ago

All of you must certainly have a whole raft of new year’s day experiences and moments of memory. We’ve been living in London, Ontario for close to 7 years and one of the many things that London is known for is that it’s the birthplace of Guy...

It came upon a midnight clear

The last day of the year tends to be a time of reflection and at almost the same instance, a time of anticipation. For many of us, this includes reviewing some past mistakes we’ve made perhaps, or some unfortunate events that have happened to us. We formulate...

Lessons and Carols

As promised to a number of friends at OPC, the Lessons and Carols portion from last year’s Christmas Eve Service has finally gone through a file recovery and editing process. It will be posted on Youtube, which seems to be the simplest and most obvious way to...

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Peace on Earth as the principal message of the Christmas story is something I’ve been reflecting on in recent posts through in comments through the reflections on the Oratorio Song-Cycle ‘One Way’. ‘I Hear the Bells on Christmas Day’ is...

One Way – finale

It was quite a moving moment when a giant bundle of rainbow coloured balloons was released, tethered to a ribbon that was 28 feet (8.5 meters), to show how high a bundle of balloons, symbolizing peace, would need to be raised to be seen on the far side of the Barrier...