Local Elder offers message on World Peace and Prayer Day
A local Elder is offering a message as part of World Peace and Prayer Day.
The day, celebrated on June 21, is an international and intergenerational celebration for people of all faiths, nations, races and ages.
A media advisory from the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) invited the public to observe the day at their own sacred sites as well as in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and other places of prayer.
“It’s a time in our life, on the first day of summer – the summer solstice – that is a very spiritual time,” Elder Jacob Sanderson of James Smith Cree Nation said, in part. “They say that at the time the sun is nearest to us in mid-day, that God opened up the heavens to bless everything that He created.”