banner photo by Janet Best
Annual Pride Service at Christ Church Cathedral is still on!
/Even though Pride Week is cancelled in Montreal, this won't stop the CCC Pride Service Planning Team!
We are pleased to announce that this year, our Annual Pride Service is going digital!
Christ Church Cathedral is hosting a Digital Pride Celebration on August 9th at 6 pm EST on Facebook Live and Zoom and we are inviting you to be a part of it! We are celebrating the radical inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in our church not only during Pride month but every day of our calendar year! Please join us!
Pourquoi la fierté ? Une invitation à participer à notre célébration de la fierté numérique 2020
La cathédrale Christ Church organise une célébration numérique de la fierté le 9 août à 18h EST sur Facebook Live et Zoom et nous vous invitons à y participer ! Nous célébrons l'inclusion radicale de la communauté LGBTQ+ dans notre église non seulement pendant le mois de la Fierté mais aussi chaque jour de l’année !
Joignez-vous à nous !
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Contact the Project Chair Dean Bertrand Olivier for info…
Join The Facebook Event HERE
A short film about the church community of St Lawrence, Lasalle
/A short film about the church community of St Lawrence, Lasalle (filmed on location 06/20)
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Learn about the Rev. Tapiwa Huggins Gusha and his story of how he came to Montreal and how for the St. Lawrence, Lasalle community in the Diocese of Montreal, their church is their family.
Final Supper Club of the Season
/After 20 incredible, heart felt Supper Club gatherings this season, we are about to take a break for the summer!
This will be an emotional session as we reflect on our time together and dream about the future. I am so filled with gratitude for the ways we have come together and for the community we have created. Please bring the kids!
All are welcome to join in for the final Supper Club / Chapter 8 of "Inspired" ~ "Church Stories"!
Kenneth Wallace will be leading our worship, Kristal Lee-Anne and Neil Mancor will be helping us to navigate the chapter.
Let's celebrate all that we have accomplished! #supperclubangl
Hope and Humility: A Reflection on Racism from Bishop Mary Irwin Gibson
/Welcome to a new series of videos featuring Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson from the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. This is the 2nd episode in the series titled "Moments with Bishop Mary"
Hope Humility and Reflections on Racism.
Our Bishop addresses and acknowledges the sin of racism and invites you to do the same.
EFM: Education For Ministry welcomes new members for September 2020
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As Christians we live Christ’s word in the world and that is our ministry. In Education for Ministry or EfM, we develop listening skills, we wrestle with scripture that doesn’t make any sense to us today, and texts that benefit from being situated in their historical contexts. We learn that scripture that speaks to us in different ways depending on what we are currently experiencing. We read interlude books together by contemporary authors from Julia Gatta’s Life in Christ, Practicing Christian Spirituality to Deitrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, to pick just two. We take real world events and experiences and look at them through the eyes of tradition and culture and personal beliefs, comparing and contrasting God’s view versus the Worlds’ view. Most of the people we meet aren’t practicing Christians, yet they are God’s people and we serve them in any way we can.
Because of COVID-19, our courses will likely start online in September, so it is recommended that any new students have a computer that would allow them to use Zoom or an equivalent tool. We’ll meet in person once we are allowed to, so for those in the Montreal area there is a course on the McGill Campus at Montreal Diocesan Theological College, for the Lower Laurentians there is a course in Lachute, and for the Eastern Townships, there is a course at Grace Church in Sutton. Participants enroll one year at a time for this four-year program. It starts with the Hebrew Bible, then the New Testament, followed by church history, liturgy and theology, and ending with contemporary works. Tuition is $350 per year (a lower rate than normal since we are a sponsoring Diocese of the program).
Please contact Nancy Greene-Gregoire (514-862-5367 or ngreene@acm.org) for Lachute or Montreal, and Tim Smart (revtimsmart@gmail.com) for Sutton. We’d like to have all new registrations in by July 15, but later registrations can often be accommodated.
Final Webinar on Engaging with Children and Youth Online
/On Friday, June 12th we are hosting the final in a series of webinars on Engaging with Children and Youth Online. This week our speaker is The Rev. Dr. Hilary Bogert-Winkler.
Dr. Hilary Bogert-Winkler is the Director of Pastoral Studies at Montreal Diocesan Theological College. Prior to her arrival in Montreal, Hilary served as diocesan youth missioner for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts while she completed her PhD at the University of Connecticut. For the past decade, Hilary’s ministry has focused on faith formation with young people ages 11-18 in both parish and camp settings. Connecting her work in academia and in the parish is her passion for theological education and her belief that learning about our faith should not be confined to the classroom or the Sunday School room, but should be part of our daily life as Christians.
To register email Lee-Ann lmatthews@montreal.anglican.ca or click going on the Facebook event
Diocese of Montreal - Guaranteed Basic Income – how can you help?
/Diocese of Montreal - Guaranteed Basic Income – how can you help?
Bishop Mary along with the House of Bishops sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister, and to The Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance. Together they are asking for a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) to be instituted in our country as a more efficient and equitable way to make sure that everyone has a minimum of support for living.
The letter is here https://www.anglican.ca/news/a-public-letter-on-guaranteed-basic-income/30026458/
Bishop Mary nominated Nancy Greene- Gregoire and Rev. Deacon Peter Huish to represent our Diocese in cross-Canada GBI discussions to be involved in taking the next steps of developing well-informed advocacy within the church. Nancy Greene-Gregoire (ngreene@acm.org) is a lay person and our EFM co-ordinator. She volunteers for and is on the board of the Mile End Mission. The Rev. Deacon Peter Huish (huish.peter@gmail.com) is a vocational deacon, and a member of Christ Church Cathedral. He has worked as a prison chaplain and currently is part of an organization called Communitas, which advocates for and supports prisoners in their reintegration into society.
You are invited to add your voice to those of the House of Bishops and those of the ELCIC (Lutheran) Bishops and to share this with all who may wish to support this cause, even outside the Anglican community. The more people who send in letters, the better.
