2016 Lent

Latin America: History – Spirituality – Liberation

Inspired in part by Ralph Carl Wushke’s four month sabbatical in Cuba in 2015, the Bathurst Lenten worship series engaged with Latin American expressions of gospel and culture, including Canadian church & society connections there.

The gospel for the second Sunday of Lent provided an evocative start point for this series.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets…how often I would have gathered your children together..” (Luke 13:24).

Services in this series included:

  • Sun, Mar 20 - Palm Sunday
    Latin America’s Gift: Theology of Liberation
    Reg McQuaid

  • Sun, Mar 13 - Lent V
    Cuba: Church & Society II
    Ralph Carl Wushke

  • Sun, Mar 6 - Lent IV
    Cuba: Church & Society I
    Reinerio Arce

  • Sun, Feb 28 - Lent III
    Bathurst Annual General Meeting with a Latin Flavour

  • Sun, Feb 21 - Lent II
    Partnering in Latin America: United Church of Canada
    Jim Hodgson

  • Sun, Feb 14 - Lent I
    The Mapuche People of Chile: Indigenous Struggle
    Marie Elena Oliva