Supper Club - Holy Week Edition

As a community that has a reputation for being creative and experimental you can expect no less from the Holy Week Supper Club 2021.

An expressive and emotionally varied gathering is being curated under the leadership of Edward Yankie, Neil Mancor and worship leader, Kenneth Wallace.

Following last years “Last Supper” performance, the team has decided to try something new. This time, inspired by the Psalms.

You are invited to experience Holy Week with the Supper Club Community.

Monday, March 29th 5:30pm -7pm EST

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A Conversation with Dr Amy-Jill Levine tomorrow March 23rd

A Pew & Beyond Conversation


Join Neil and Lisa for A Pew & Beyond Conversation with Dr Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament & Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Understanding Jesus in his Jewish Context.
Tuesday 23 March 1pm EASTERN

Join the Facebook group for more info or contact Neil Mancor

New Resource: Social Justice Page on our Website!

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We are Pleased to Announce a new Resource Page on our Website.

Here you will find links to Social Justice issues that we support such as:

Black Lives Matter, Community Ministries, Climate Change, Homelessness / Food Security, Mission Standing Committee, PWRDF, Refugees, Truth and Reconciliation …

We encourage you to get involved, volunteer, share your gifts and learn more about the ways that the Anglican Diocese of Montreal is engaged with social justice.

An invitation from Bishop Mary and Dean Bertrand to participate in the Easter vigil 2021

La grande veillée pascale résume notre foi, alors que nous nous souvenons de l'histoire du peuple de Dieu. Par la lecture des Écritures, les chants et la musique, nous célébrerons la présence du Christ ressuscité parmi nous avec le feu nouveau de Pâques, et nous renouvellerons les promesses faites lors de notre baptême

The evening will encapsulate our faith, as we remember the story of the people of God in scripture readings, songs and music. We will celebrate the presence of the risen Christ among us in the new fire of Easter, and renew the promises made at our baptism.

The Great Easter Vigil / La grande veillée pascale
7:00 pm / 19h – April 3 avril 2021

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://zoom.us/j/96838353718?pwd=ZFFvT1krT3FveUJMMytiUENNRzNPQT09
Webinar ID: 968 3835 3718

A Digital Interactive Children's Good Friday Story Time

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Following our Interactive Children’s Nativity in December, we are at it again! This time, we are talking about Good Friday, with song, art and story.
What to Expect?

Hosted by: Lee-Ann Matthews (craft & creativity)

Music by: Dr. Jonathan White (children’s choir director)

Storytime by: Dr. Neil Mancor (master storyteller)

When: Friday, April 2, 2021 10 am

For children aged 3-12 or anyone who appreciates an interactive story time on Good Friday!

Register now to reserve your spot and receive downloadable interactive content

Please note that you must sign up by April 1st at 5pm

We are St Martha’s Chapel (in the basement) by Rev Jean Daniel Williams

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We are St Martha’s Chapel (in the basement) by Rev Jean Daniel Williams

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For decades, under varying names and leaders and participating churches, the McGill Ecumenical Chaplaincy has been a ministry connecting young people with their faith and with one another. 

A chaplaincy by definition is the church’s outreach into the world. A chaplain is a pastor outside of the church. Of course, most people I have met both in and out of the church do not necessarily know that. Ecumenical means denominations working together. And again, even within the churches who generously support our work, people do not always know that, nor do students who grew up in a church community with a specific name know that “Ecumenical” means them. And finally, McGill implies we only accept students from one university or that that university itself funds or directs our work. And that is simply not the case.

So we have decided that we need a new name to communicate who we are and what we do. And after brainstorming many things “new” we fell in love with something old. In the past, long before my time as chaplain, our Bible study was once known as “St Martha’s in the Basement.” I know this name because of how dear it is to so many alumni who have told me their stories of being at St. Martha’s in the Basement.

My interfaith colleagues at McGill at the Newman Centre and Hillel House have shown me that a distinct identity does not mean the Catholic or Jewish students won’t find them. Alumni have shown me the staying power of the old names. And today’s students have enthusiasm for a name that does not limit us, a name that calls us across denominations and schools to unite and emulate someone we admire.

St. Martha is described in the Gospel of St. Luke as distracted by all she has to do. Jesus himself says she is worried and upset about many things. She boldly questions Jesus in Luke, and in the Gospel of John even more boldly says, “If you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
In St. Martha I see a holy example of one who is committed to hospitality, who is committed to justice, who is committed to working hard, who is committed to accountability, and who is fiercely honest in her relationships, including with Jesus, God incarnate.

I see a Biblical saint recognized as an example in all our sponsoring denominations who embodies so many of the best traits in our young adult community. We can distracted by our studies, by our relationships, by our work, by what we see as wrong and unfair in the world, but we are not going to stop working hard, loving our sisters and brothers who have different approaches to Jesus, or stop asking God the honest questions in our study, worship, and prayer.

We are St Martha’s Chapel (in the basement).



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The Bishop and the Cathedral would like to invite you to take part in a Diocesan-wide celebration of the Great Vigil of Easter,

A Message from the Dean

The Bishop and the Cathedral would like to invite you to take part in a Diocesan-wide celebration of the Great Vigil of Easter, to be broadcast on Zoom at 7:00 Saturday April 3 from the Cathedral (the link will be circulated nearer the time). It is our hope that this might be a truly diocesan service, reflecting our diversity and unity.  We are therefore reaching out to all churches and communities to ask whether you and your congregation might be willing not only to attend, but also to participate by offering readers (who can read on Zoom, or pre-record their readings on a smartphone in front of their own churches, or in a significant place in their own towns) or even music videos from your own choir, band or musicians which could be incorporated into the worship so that it reflects the breadth of the diocese.

 If you would be interested in sharing a music piece or a reader, please contact Deborah Meister at the cathedral (deborah.meister@montrealcathedral.ca), so that we can coordinate this, firm up assignments and make sure the service works as a whole. We hope to maximize the number of congregations represented, so we aim to choose musical recordings and readers from different churches to further that goal. It would help us if you could let us have your expression of interest by Tuesday 9 March at the end of the day.

 Of course, your congregation may have already decided to still offer your own Vigil service, but I do hope and pray that many will be able to join as a diocese for what is the most significant feast of our faith, and therefore contribute to shine a bright and joyful light into even this dark and challenging time.

 In Christ

 Bertrand

Présentation d'un nouveau site web en français dans le diocèse de Montréal par Mark Gibson

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Présentation d'un nouveau site web en français dans le diocèse de Montréal

par Mark Gibson


L'un de mes héros est feu Gavin Elbourne, que j'avais rencontré pour la première fois en 1975, alors que j'étais un jeune membre de la cathédrale Christ Church. Ce qui m'a le plus impressionné, c'est son engagement à établir des liens entre la foi des anglicans et les Québécois qui nous entourent. À cette fin, il a dirigé l'élaboration d'un petit pamphlet de langue française, mais influent, intitulé Qu'est-ce que l'Église anglicane ?


Plus récemment, j'en suis venu à apprécier le dynamisme et le potentiel de la congrégation de La Nativité, qui est en train de passer de ses racines haïtiennes à une merveilleuse pionnière dans l'approche des Québécois francophones. Comme ils n'avaient pas de site web en français, j'ai pensé que je pourrais aider, tout comme Gavin l'avait fait en son temps....


A ce titre, j'ai proposé de construire un site web pour le diocèse qui pourrait accueillir les pages de La Nativité et de nos autres petites communautés de langue française. En travaillant avec Nicki Hronjak, nous nous sommes vite rendu compte qu'il y avait plusieurs petites congrégations dans le diocèse de Québec qui avaient le même besoin. Il est devenu évident que nous pouvions faire de la publicité pour tous les anglicans francophones à un seul endroit.


Finalement, nous avons été ravis d'identifier neuf communautés anglicanes françaises différentes, de Gatineau à Thetford-Mines!

Grâce à l'aide à la rédaction et au soutien en français de Brigitte Ngoudie de La Nativité, de Sandra Koukou des Archives diocésaines et des membres du clergé Denis Gévry et Josée Lemoine, nous avons maintenant des pages d'accueil en français pour les paroisses qui, nous l'espérons, présenteront notre foi d'une manière qui résonnera avec les valeurs québécoises de respect, d'inclusion, de passion et de service.

Veuillez nous consulter et utiliser ce nouveau site Web comme une ressource pour les francophones qui souhaitent en apprendre davantage sur l'anglicanisme et les inviter à prier avec une communauté française.


Introducing A New French Language Website in the Diocese of Montreal

by Mark Gibson

One of my heroes is the late Gavin Elbourne, who I had met first as a young member of Christ Church Cathedral in 1975. What impressed me most was his commitment to making links between the faith of Anglicans and the Québécois around us. To that end, he led the development of a small, yet influential French language pamphlet called Qu’est-ce que l’Église Anglicane?

More recently I came to appreciate the dynamism and potential of the La Nativité congregation, which is growing from Haitian roots into a wonderful pioneer in outreach to French-speaking Québécois. Since they didn’t have a French website, I thought I could help, just like Gavin had in his day…

As such, I offered to build a website for the diocese that could host the pages of La Nativité and our other small French congregations. Working with Nicki Hronjak, we soon realized that there were several small congregations in the Diocese of Québec with the same need. It became clear that we could provide publicity for French Anglicans in one place.

In the end, we were delighted to identify nine different French Anglican congregations from Gatineau to Thetford-Mines!

Thanks to editing assistance and French language support from Brigitte Ngoudie of La Nativité, Sandra Koukou of Diocesan Archives, and clergy Denis Gévry and Josée Lemoine, we now have French-language landing pages for parishes which we hope presents our faith in ways that will resonate with Québec values of respect, inclusivity, passion and service.

Please check us out and use this new website as a resource for francophones who wish to learn more about Anglicanism, and to invite them to worship with a French congregation.

Interfaith Commemoration March 11/ Commemoration interreligieuse 11 mars get zoom link

 Bishop Mary, along with other religious leaders will be saying prayers for the Covid-19 victims.

Temporary memorials can be erected outside your church on March 11th for people to lay flowers and reflect in prayer. If possible, ring the church bells at 1:01 p.m.

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Un message du Centre canadien d'œcuménisme

L'évêque Mary, ainsi que d'autres représentants religieux, diront des prières pour les victimes de Covid-19.

Des monuments commémoratifs temporaires peuvent être érigés à l'extérieur de votre église le 11 mars pour que les gens puissent déposer des fleurs et se recueillir en prière. Si possible, sonnez les cloches de l'église à 13h01.

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