For the last two years members of emerge (a downtown congregation focusing on 18-35 year olds) have collaborated with curieux.ca, another new church in Montreal, in developing an approach to celebrating Christmas which uses a number of “stations” placed around the darkened cathedral, and is accessed gallery-style. This has given church members, their friends and families the opportunity to use the traditional space of the cathedral in a non-traditional way, and has been very helpful in counteracting the rampant commercialism associated with the season.
Videos of the event can be viewed on the video-sharing Web site, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com; use the site’s search engine and type Emerge Montreal. Canon Nick Brotherwood
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