On Thursday, June 23rd, UTCCC attended the concert “Audrey Assad: Refugee Resettlement Benefit Concert” by the renowned Catholic contemporary musician Audrey Assad at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in North York, starting at 7:30pm. General admission was free, but there was a freewill collection for the Archdiocese of Toronto’s refugee resettlement efforts.
Audrey Assad was born in Secaucus, New Jersey as the daughter of a Syrian refugee father and a Virginian mother and raised as a member of the Plymouth Brethren, an Evangelical Christian movement which split from Anglicianism in the late 1820s. She started playing piano in her early childhood and was homeschooled throughout middle school. At age 19, she started leading worship music and converted to Catholicism at age 24. She describes her former style as folksy, but her current style is religious music that draws from her Catholic faith and literary references, emphasizing singing to God rather than just being about God.
I wasn’t able to attend myself (as I was in the States on that day), but I’ve posted some pictures collected from our various members (Miley and Cathy) to commemorate that day.
God bless,
UTCCC
(Written by Lyndon)
University of Toronto Chinese Catholic Community — 多倫多大學華人天主教信仰生活團體 