NEW! Guidelines for Reopening Churches
/Guidelines for Reopening are Available HERE
banner photo by Janet Best
Notice of Intention
/On Saturday, July 25th , The Feast of St. James the Apostle and Martyr, at 2pm in the church of St. James the Apostle and Martyr in Stanbridge East, I intend to ordain The Reverend Tyson Leif Edvard Røsberg, B.A., ThB., M.A., M.Div. to the presbyterate.
On Thursday, August 6th, The Feast of The Transfiguration of the Lord, at 2pm in the church of St. John the Baptist, Pointe Claire, I intend to ordain The Reverend Geert Jan Boudewijnse, L.Th., Ph.D. to the presbyterate.
In compliance with current government health regulations in this time of pandemic, the ordinations will occur in the presence of a maximum of 10 persons from a maximum of 3 different households. Following the rubric for the ordination of a priest in the Book of Alternative Services this shall include two priests, with a lay and presbyter presenters, the bishop and the candidate. The service will be broadcast for public viewing on the Diocesan social media platforms.
Please keep the candidates and their families in your prayers.
Every blessing,
The Right Reverend Mary Irwin-Gibson
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 !
#CCCmtl #cccpridemtl #cccmtl
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.
