Kirsten Pinto Gfroerer, Author at Rupert's Land News https://rupertslandnews.ca News from the Diocese of Rupert's Land in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/rupertslandnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/solid-blue.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kirsten Pinto Gfroerer, Author at Rupert's Land News https://rupertslandnews.ca 32 32 62678561 Why Do We Pray? Kirsten Pinto-Gfroerer’s Response https://rupertslandnews.ca/why-do-we-pray-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/why-do-we-pray-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:26:22 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=173214   We live between the feeding and watering grounds of migrating Canada Geese—one of many resting places on their way to the south. From early September until now, these birds have been an intimate part of our daily life. They crowd the skies, filling them with the pulsing energy of getting ready. We hear the […]

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]]> https://rupertslandnews.ca/why-do-we-pray-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/feed/ 0 173214 Why Do We Celebrate the Eucharist? Kirsten Pinto-Gfroerer’s Response https://rupertslandnews.ca/celebrating-the-eucharist-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/celebrating-the-eucharist-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:13:13 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=173166 Several years ago, when I was a catechist in an Anglican parish, I had the privilege of working with an eight-year-old boy who wanted to be baptized. This was a common phenomenon in the parish where I worked. Congregants had come to the parish from other denominations, including some from the Anabaptist tradition. Many of […]

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]]> https://rupertslandnews.ca/celebrating-the-eucharist-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/feed/ 0 173166 Why Go to Church? Kirsten Pinto-Gfroerer’s Response https://rupertslandnews.ca/why-go-to-church-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/why-go-to-church-kirsten-pinto-gfroerer/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:04:49 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=173110 Near the end of his Confessions, St. Augustine wrote, My love is my weight. I’m carried by it wherever I’m carried. Through your gift we catch fire and are carried upward; we go up in flames, and up we go. In our heart we ascend the ascending staircase, and we sing the song of the […]

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]]> https://rupertslandnews.ca/light/feed/ 0 172905 Silent Presence in the Face of Suffering https://rupertslandnews.ca/silent-presence-in-the-face-of-suffering/ https://rupertslandnews.ca/silent-presence-in-the-face-of-suffering/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:52:39 +0000 https://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=171511 Part of the work of the church in the world is to care for those who suffer. Thus, it is asked of the Body of Christ to grow our capacity to do so with wisdom. However, in the face of suffering we are often undone; we don’t know what to say or do, we feel […]

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