Celebrated Lives - November 1

The Lives That Shape Our Lives

The people who touch our lives become part of who we are. Even after death, their influence continues through our memories, relationships, values, and the stories we share. 

Drawing on the concept of continuing bonds, Martin will explore how death changes our relationships without necessarily ending them, and how remembering those who have died can be an expression of love, gratitude, and connection.

Join us for our annual Celebrated Lives gathering as we honour and remember those who have died in our lives, celebrating not simply that they are gone, but that they lived and made a difference.

Comin coon: Watch the gathering here

Reading - They Are with Us Still

By Kathleen McTigue

In the ­struggles we choose for ourselves,

in the ways we move forward in our lives

and bring our world forward with us,

It is right to remember the names of those

who gave us strength in this choice of living.

It is right to name the power of hard lives well-lived.

We share a history with those lives.

We belong to the same motion.

They too were strengthened by what had gone before.

They too were drawn on by the vision of what might come to be.

Those who lived before us,

who ­struggled for justice and suffered injustice before us,

have not melted into the dust,

and have not disappeared.

They are with us still.

The lives they lived hold us steady.

Their words remind us and call us back to ourselves.

Their courage and love evoke our own.

We, the living, carry them with us:

we are their voices, their hands and their hearts.

We take them with us,

and with them choose the deeper path of living.