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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Looks like there was something 2023 too?

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Kingdom of Heaven is like…

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Barbecuing alone is an underutilized strategy for good mental health.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Remember Cabbage Patch Kids? The babies born in a cabbage patch that people adopted? This is them now.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Carney has such cool dad energy.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This looks like a nice picture in a nice church but in reality one of the kids is asking me about ‘biblical angels’ on Christmas Eve and I was thrilled! #biblicalangels

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

At the beginning of the New Year we always eat Eggs in Purgatory

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

$6 worth of cheese should not make me this happy

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Last summer I was sitting around the campfire with the other dads in our friend group and we were talking about our childhoods toys. I said I was still traumatized from when I accidentally broke my favourite toy, a transformer I’d left in my school bag. I unwrapped this today from my friend Ian!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas Eve at St. John’s in Moncton Family service of lessons and carols with candle lighting 7pm Merry Christmas to you and yours from all of us!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Today we had 160 people in church, 25 in the choir, and over twenty kids who are rehearsing for the children’s pageant! I never thought we’d survive Covid.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Waiting for car repair at a coffee shop gives me a chance to read my new book

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Someone gave me this for my birthday. It’s the most-powerful flashlight I have ever seen. I shined it on my son and he yelled and asked, ‘What is that?’ I said it was the power of Christ!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

One of the teens in my church just wrote this on my Facebook wall: 😭

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Someone said to me after church, ‘Baptizing babies must be wonderful!’ I agreed!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

We had nearly two hundred people in church today for our 187th anniversary service in downtown Moncton at St. John’s. Debby Warren, formerly of Ensemble, shared in a dialogue with me and moved people to tears with her stories of caring for vulnerable/unhoused/addicted neighbours.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In three days: three funerals, two baptisms, eight confirmations, one wedding, and one beer.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Dave, the local Anglican priest had his final Sunday here after well over 20 years in Moncton! I went and brought greetings at the beginning of his final mass. Prettiest church in Moncton.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A Special Visit from Blue Rodeo’s Mike Boguski – Today at the Karing Kitchen in #Moncton ! Mike is known for weaving stops like ours into his tour across Canada, helping raise awareness and support for community-based organizations. We are honoured to welcome him into our space to share his music!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Preparing for Remembrance Sunday at the church

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Good to see this in New Brunswick No cost and in and out

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

You never know what you’ll find at the church example number 236:

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I did a wedding on Saturday at the couple’s home and when I arrived I put my keys on the shelf. When I was leaving, someone said, ‘I knew they were your keys because you’re from Cape Breton!’

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I’m reading a sermon from the 1890s by George MacDonald (who inspired Tolkien et al) where he says that Dante referred to angels as ‘the birds of God.’ I love a literary sermon. He’s not a fundamentalist, either. What a bright mind he had.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A friend of mine died this spring. He was a United Church minister in Cape Breton who lived to be 83. I went to see his widow a few weeks ago and she gave me this. If you know, you know what a treasure this is for clergy who always lose them.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Cam, this is Halo and she had the same surgery a few years ago (with a further complication) and she knows how hard it is. You’re a good dog!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is why clergy often end up on stress leave.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I had a burial where I was standing at the grave waiting. I didn’t know anyone. Then, I looked at the grave beside me, and I saw the stone of an elder from my church whom I had loved, and who loved me. He was the best of us. I thought, ‘we never go alone’ and said thank you.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I found this book in the wild, and having read reviews over the years, I snatched it off the shelf and took it to the counter. I knew what I had!

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Spent some time today at Reads in Moncton. The guy told me at one time there were a dozen stores, and this is the last one. All used books, all discounted, and most half off. I bought this one and a few others to browse over the summer but I easily could have bought a dozen more.

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Billard @aaronbillard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Beginning my vacation and I’m beyond tired. I think when you start to relax that’s when your body lets you know just how much stress it has been holding. Called back for a funeral on Saturday but at least I have the church of The Great Canadian Bagel to start the day with the wooden cathedrals.

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