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The Parish of Christ Church Calendar of Services and Events
Fall 2012 -Spring 2013 (tentative)
(Rev’d) David Curry
798-2454
www.christchurchwindsor.ca
Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Parish of Christ Church, Windsor
Calendar of Services and Events Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
(tentative)
Sunday, September 2nd 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XIII 10:30am Holy Communion
Tuesday, Sept.4th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Sunday, September 9th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XIV (followed by Men’s Club Breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion 1:00-3:00pm Parish Picnic (Potluck) 220 Grey Mountain Road, Falmouth
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES Chapel
Tuesday, Sept. 11th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, Sept. 13th 3:00pm - Service at Windsor Elms Eve of Holy Cross 6:30-7:30 Girl Guides Mtg. in Parish Hall 7:00pm Holy Communion
Sunday, September 16th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XV 9:00am Holy Communion at KES - Alumni Event
10:30am Morning Prayer 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, September 17th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks - Parish Hall
Tuesday, September 18th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Christ Church Book Club - The Book of Common Prayer:
Past, Present and Future
Thursday, September 20th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In Eve of St. Matthew 6:30-7:30 Girl Guides in Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion
Friday, September 21st 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home Sunday, September 23rd 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XVI 10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, September 24th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, September 25th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, September 27th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Saturday, September 29th 7-9:00pm Parish Hall Newfoundland & Country Evening of Musical Entertainment
Sunday, September 30th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XVII /St. Michael 10:30am Holy Communion & All Angels (transf.) 4:00pm Choral Evensong - Christ Church
October 2012
Monday, October 1st 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, October 2nd 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, October 4th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sat., October 6th 9-11:00am Men’s Club - Decorating for Harvest Thskg. 3:00pm Holy Matrimony
Melissa Sanford & Duncan Carter
Sunday, October 7th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XVIII / Harvest 10:30am Holy Communion Thanksgiving 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church Tuesday, October 9th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Wednesday, October 10th 6:00-7:00pm Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Thursday, October 11th 1:30-3:0pm Seniors’ Drop-In 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall Saturday, October 13th 3:00pm Holy Matrimony
Athena McLellan & Daniel Poole Sunday, October 14th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XIX (foll. by Men’s Club breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, October 15th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, October 16th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Christ Church Book Club:
Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone
Thursday, October 18th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In St. Luke 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall Friday, October 19th 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge
3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home 7:30pm Christ Church Concert Series I Elizabeth Harwood - Organ Recital
Saturday, October 20th 7-9:00pm Parish Hall Annual Parish Talent & Variety Show
Sunday, October 21st 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XX 10:30am Morning Prayer
4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, October 22nd World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, October 23rd 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, October 25th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, October 28th 8:00am Holy Communion St. Simon & St. Jude / 10:30am Holy Baptism & Communion Trinity XXI 2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:00pm Choral Evensong at Christ Church
Monday, October 29th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, October 30th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
November 2012
Thursday, November 1st 1:00-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In All Saints’ Day 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion
Sunday, November 4th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XXII/In the Octave (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast) Of All Saints 10:30am Holy Communion
4:00pm Evening Prayer 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, November 5th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, November 6th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Thursday, November 8th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, November 11th 9:00am Holy Communion (shortened) Trinity XXIII/ 10:00am Remembrance Service at KES Cenotaph Remembrance Day 11:00am Remembrance Service at Windsor Cenotaph Monday, November 12th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, November 13th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, November 15th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-in
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall Sunday, November 18th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity XXIV 10:30am Morning Prayer
4:00pm Choral Evensong at Christ Church Monday, November 19th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class
4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School Tuesday, November 20th 6:00pm “Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club: Maria Rosa Menocal’s The Ornament of the World: How Muslims,
Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Thursday, November 22nd 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall Friday, November 23rd 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home Saturday, November 24th 4:30-6:00pm Parish Hall
Annual Parish Ham Supper Sunday, November 25th 8:00am Holy Communion Sunday Next 10:30am Holy Communion Before Advent 2:00pm AMD Service at Christ Church
4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, November 26th World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 4:45-5:15pm Room 204, King’s-Edgehill School
6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, November 27th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, November 29th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In Eve of St. Andrew 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
December 2012
Sunday, December 2nd 8:00am Holy Communion First Sunday in Advent (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion 4:30pm Advent Service of Lessons & Carols with KES
(Gr. 7-11 at Christ Church) 7:00pm Advent Service of Lessons & Carols
at KES Chapel, (Gr. 12s)
Monday, December 3rd 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, December 4th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:00pm Holy Communion & Advent Programme I
Thursday, December 6th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, December 9th 8:00am Holy Communion Second Sunday in Advent 10:30am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
Monday, December 10th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, December 11th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, December 13th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, December 16th 8:00am Holy Communion Third Sunday in Advent 10:30am Morning Prayer
4:00pm Evening Prayer
Monday, December 17th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, December 18th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Holy Communion & Advent Programme II
Thursday, December 20th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms Eve of St. Thomas 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion
Friday, December 21st 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge St. Thomas 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home
Christ Church Concert Series II - 7:00pm Christmas Concert Capella Regalis Men and Boys Choir (Under the Direction of Nick Halley)
Sat., December 22nd 9-11:00am Men’s Club - Decorating Church for Xmas
Sunday, December 23rd 8:00am Holy Communion Fourth Sunday in Advent 10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf 4:00pm Evening Prayer
The Shepherds sing; and shall I silent be? My God, no hymne for thee? My soul’s a shepherd too; a flock it feeds Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is thy word: the streams, thy grace Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers Out-sing the day-light houres. Then we will chide the sunne for letting night Take up his place and right: We sing one common Lord; wherefore he should Himself the candle hold.
(from George Herbert’s poem ‘Christmas’)
Christmas at Christ Church (2012)
Monday, December 24th 7:00pm Children’s Crêche Service Christmas Eve 9:30pm Christmas Eve Communion Service
Tuesday, December 25th 10:00am Christmas Morning Communion Service Christmas Day
Wednesday, December 26th 10:00am Holy Communion St. Stephen
Thursday, December 27th 8:00am Holy Communion St. John the Evangelist
Friday, December 28th 10:00am Holy Communion Holy Innocents
Sunday, December 30th 8:00am Holy Communion Sunday after Christmas 10:30am Christmas Lessons & Carols
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 10:00am Holy Communion Octave Day of Christmas/ Circumcision of Christ/New Year’s Day
O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles: Mercifully grant, that we, who know thee now by faith, may be led onward through this earthly life, until we see the vision of thy heavenly glory; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen.
January 2013
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 10:00am Holy Communion Octave Day of Christmas/ Circumcision of Christ/New Year’s Day
Thursday, January 3rd 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, January 6th 8:00am Holy Communion (Parish Hall) Epiphany (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion (Parish Hall) 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, January 7th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, January 8th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, January 10th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, January 13th 8:00am Holy Communion The First Sunday after 10:30am Holy Communion the Epiphany 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, January 14th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, January 15th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Christ Church Book Club:
Adam Gopnik’s Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Thursday, January 17th 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, January 18th 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning
Sunday, January 20th 8:00am Holy Communion The Second Sunday 10:30am Morning Prayer after the Epiphany (Visit of Rt. Rev’d Sue Moxley)
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, January 21st 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, January 22nd 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, January 24th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms Eve of the Conversion of St. Paul 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion
Sunday, January 27h 8:00am Holy Communion Septuagesima 10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, January 28th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, January 29th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, January 31st 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
February 2013
Sunday, February 3rd 8:00am Holy Communion Sexagesima 10:30am Morning Prayer
followed by Pot-luck luncheon and Annual Parish Meeting
Monday, February 4th 6:00-7:00pm Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Tuesday, February 5th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, February 7th 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, February 10th 8:00am Holy Communion Quinquagesima 10:30am Holy Communion
(foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast) 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, February 11th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/ Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, February 12th 4:30-6:30pm Pancake Supper - Parish Hall Shrove Tuesday
Wednesday, February 13th 7:00am Penitential Service with Ashes Ash Wednesday 12noon - Holy Communion with Ashes
2:30pm Imposition of Ashes at KES 6:00-7:00pm Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Thursday, February 14th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, February 17th 8:00am Holy Communion The First Sunday 10:30am Morning Prayer In Lent 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, February 18th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6:00-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Tuesday, February 19th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Eve of Ember 7:00pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme I Wednesday
Thursday, February 21st 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, February 22nd 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge Ember Friday 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home
Sunday, February 24th 8:00am Holy Communion The Second Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion In Lent 2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, February 25th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6:00-7:00pm Brownies/ Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Tuesday, February 26th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme II
Wednesday, February 27th 6:00-7:00pm Sparks’ Mtg. in Parish Hall
Thursday, February 28th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
March 2013
Sunday, March 3rd 8:00am Holy Communion The Third Sunday (followed by Men’s Club Breakfast) In Lent 10:30am Morning Prayer
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, March 4th 4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class (Rm. 204, KES) 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, March 5th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme III
Thursday, March 7th 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, March 10th 8:00am Holy Communion The Fourth Sunday in Lent/ 10:30am Holy Communion Laetare Sunday (foll. by Simnel Cake in the Hall)
Monday, March 11th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, March 12th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, March 14th 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, March 17th 8:00am Holy Communion The Fifth Sunday in Lent/ 10:30am Holy Communion Passion Sunday
Monday, March 18th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, March 19th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme IV
Thursday, March 21st 6:30-7:30 Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, March 22nd 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home
Sunday, March 24th 8:00am Holy Communion (with blessing of Palms) Palm Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion(with blessing of Palms)
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf (Return to ‘Big’ Church!!)
Holy Week & Easter Monday, March 25th 7:00am Matins & Passion Monday in Holy Week 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
7:00pm Vespers & Communion
Tuesday, March 26th 7:00am Matins & Passion Tuesday in Holy Week 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:00pm Vespers & Communion
Wednesday, March 27th 7:00am Matins & Passion Wednesday in Holy Week 9:30pm Tenebrae
Thursday, March 28th 7:00am Penitential Service Maundy Thursday 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall 7:00pm Holy Communion & Watch
Friday, March 29th 7:00am Matins of Good Friday Good Friday 11:00am Ecumenical Service 7:00pm Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday
Saturday, March 30th 10:00am Matins & Ante-Communion Holy Saturday 7:00pm Vigil with Lauds & Matins of Easter
Sunday, March 31st 7:00am Ecumenical Sunrise Service at the Easter Fort Edward Blockhouse 8:00am Holy Communion - Christ Church 10:30am Holy Communion - Christ Church
4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
April 2013 Monday, April 1st 10:00am Holy Communion Easter Monday Tuesday, April 2nd 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Easter Tuesday 7:00pm Holy Communion Thursday, April 4th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In Easter Thursday 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall Sunday, April 7th 8:00am Holy Communion Octave Day of Easter (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, April 8th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Eve of the Annunciation (transf.) 7:00pm Holy Communion Tuesday, April 9th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’- Haliburton Place
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting Thursday, April 11th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In
3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, April 14th 8:00am Holy Communion The Second Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion After Easter 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, April 15th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, April 16th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:00pm Christ Church Book Club:
Amin Maalouf’s Balthasar’s Odyssey and Disordered World
Thursday, April 18th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, April 19th 11:00am Holy Communion at Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion at Gladys Manning Home
Sunday, April 21st 8:00am Holy Communion The Third Sunday 10:30am Morning Prayer After Easter 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, April 22nd 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, April 23rd 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, April 25th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In St. Mark 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall 7:00pm Holy Communion
Friday, April 26th Choral Evensong with KES Cadet Corps - TBA
Saturday, April 27th 7:00-9:00pm - Parish Hall Newfoundland & Country Evening of Musical Entertainment
Sunday, April 28th 8:00am Holy Communion The Fourth Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion After Easter 2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:00pm Choral Evensong at Christ Church
Monday, April 29th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, April 30th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Eve of SS. Philip & James 7:00pm Holy Communion
May 2013
Thursday, May 2nd 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, May 5th 8:00am Holy Communion The Fifth Sunday (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast) After Easter/Rogation 10:30am Morning Prayer Sunday 4:00pm Evening Prayer
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, May 6th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Rogation Monday 7:00pm Holy Communion
Tuesday, May 7th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Rogation Tuesday 7:00pm Holy Communion
Thursday, May 9th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In Ascension Day 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall 7:00pm Holy Communion
Saturday, May 11th 4:30-6:00pm ANNUAL LOBSTER SUPPER!
Sunday, May 12th 8:00am Holy Communion Sunday after 10:30am Holy Communion Ascension Day 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, May 13th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, May 14th 6:00pm “Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting
Thursday, May 16th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, May 17th 11:00am Holy Communion at Dykeland Lodge
3:30pm Holy Communion at Gladys Manning Home Sunday, May 19th 8:00am Holy Communion Pentecost 10:30am Holy Communion 4:00pm Choral Evensong at Christ Church
Monday, May 20th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Monday after Pentecost 7:00pm Holy Communion Tuesday, May 21st 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Tuesday after Pentecost 7:00pm Christ Church Book Club:
Louise Penny’s Still Life and Tom Gallant’s The Lord God Bird Thursday, May 23rd 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In Eve of Ember Friday 3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall 7:00pm Holy Communion
Sunday, May 26th 8:00am Holy Communion Trinity Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, May 27th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, May 28th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place Thursday, May 30th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In
6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
June 2013 Sunday, June 2nd 8:00am Holy Communion The First Sunday (foll. by Men’s Club Breakfast) After Trinity 10:30am Morning Prayer
4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church 4:30pm Holy Communion at KES
Monday, June 3rd 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Tuesday, June 4th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, June 6th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Sunday, June 9th 8:00am Holy Communion The Second Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion After Trinity 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church Monday, June 10th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Eve of St.Barnabas 7:00pm Holy Communion Tuesday, June 11th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting Thursday, June 13th 1:30-3:00pm Seniors’Drop-In
3:00pm Service at Windsor Elms 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Saturday, June 15th 9:00am Encaenia Service at KES Chapel
10:15 Graduation & Prize Day Ceremonies at KES Sunday, June 16th 8:00am Holy Communion The Third Sunday 10:30am Morning Prayer after Trinity 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
Monday, June 17th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall
Tuesday, June 18th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Thursday, June 20th 6:30-7:30pm Girl Guides in Parish Hall
Friday, June 21st 11:00am Holy Communion - Dykeland Lodge 3:30pm Holy Communion - Gladys Manning Home
Sunday, June 23rd 8:00am Holy Communion The Fourth Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion After Trinity 2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
Monday, June 24th 6-7:00pm Brownies/Sparks in Parish Hall Nativity of St. John the Baptist 7:00pm Holy Communion Tuesday, June 25th 6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ - Haliburton Place
Sunday, June 30th 8:00am Holy Communion The Fifth Sunday 10:30am Holy Communion After Trinity 4:00pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church
O God, who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass man’s understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we, loving thee above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Christ Church Book Club! 2012-2013
7:00pm. Third Tuesday of the Month. An eclectic choice of various books, one main book or excerpt per evening, along with reference to other books, for discussion and debate. Open to all and everyone! 1 hour. Where? Coronation Room, Christ Church Parish Hall, 7 Wentworth Street, Windsor, NS. Contact: David Curry 798-2454.
Dates: September 18th, October 16th, November 20th, 2012; January 15th, April 16th, & May 21st, 2013
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012. The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future. Published in commemoration of the 350th
anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the mother-book, as it were, of the Anglican family of Books of Common Prayer internationally, it is a collection of essays, scholarly but accessible, from which one may pick and choose, and read as one pleases. Among the contributors is the celebrated English detective fiction writer, Dame P.D. James. It is available from www.amazon.ca for $ 15.88. I have a number of copies as well. This year, 2012, marks as well the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer, the only post-World War II prayer book that stands intentionally within the principles of the Anglican Common Prayer tradition.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012. Cutting for Stone (www.amazon.ca -
$ 15.88) by Abraham Verghese, an Ethiopian writer and doctor who now teaches at Stanford University, California. An epic first novel, it ranges in its scope from India to Ethiopia, from Africa to America while exploring the many complexities and confusions of cultures and communities, of love and healing.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012. Maria Rosa Menocal’s The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, (www.amazon.ca - $ 14.43)
examines the remarkable history and cultural and intellectual
interchange between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval Spain, bringing to life a world which has touched the cultures of western Europe and their heirs in many and intriguing ways.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013. Adam Gopnik’s 2011 CBC Massey Lecture Series, Winter: Five Windows on the Season
(www.amazon.ca - $ 16.57) provides a thoughtful and kaleidoscopic view about the season of winter as reflected mostly through art and literature. While it may not exactly “drive the cold winter away” (in Loreena McKennit’s words and song), it may help us with the winter blues to see how others have seen and dealt with winter before us.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013. Amin Maalouf’s novel, Balthasar’s Odyssey (www.amazon.ca - $ 19.95), along with his non-fiction
book, Disordered World (www.amazon.ca - $ 20.48) offer a way to
think about the religious and cultural challenges that are before us between Jews, Christians and Muslims. The novel is set in the 17th century while Disordered World reflects on our present confusions.
Together they challenge the assumptions and outlook of the European and western cultures as well as those of the world of the Middle East.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013. Louise Penny’s novel, Still Life
(www.amazon.ca - $ 10.82) and Tom Gallant’s The Lord God Bird
(www.amazon.ca - $ 15.64) are two very different works which nonetheless captivate and challenge us about life in small communities, about our relation to nature and to one another. The one is set in a (fictional) little rural village, Three Pines, in Quebec; the other in the actual bayous of Big Woods, Arkansas. Both are works by Canadian writers, the one from Quebec, the other lives near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Though tinged with a wee bit more than a modicum of a romance for rural places, both works are full of wonderful grace-notes that illumine the soul and warm the heart.
Synopsis of Special Events & Programmes Fall 2012
Saturday, September 29th 7:00-9:00pm - Parish Hall
Nfld. & Country Evening of Musical Entertainment Sunday, November 11th Remembrance Day Services
9:00am at Christ Church - a shortened Communion Service 10:00am King’s-Edgehill Cenotaph
11:00am Windsor Cenotaph
Saturday, November 24th, 4:30-6:00pm - Parish Hall Annual Parish Ham Supper
Sunday, December 2nd 4:30pm Lessons & Carols with KES, Gr. 7-11 7:00pm Lessons & Carols at Hensley Memorial Chapel, KES,
Gr. 12 An Advent Study Programme: 7:00pm
Tuesdays, December 4th & 18th Christ Church Choral Evensongs, 2012: 4:00pm
Sunday, September 30th Sunday, October 28th
Sunday, November 18th
Christ Church Concert Series (in progress): To date Elizabeth Harwood – Organ Recital, October 19th, at 7:30pm Capella Regalis Men Boys Choir – December 21st at 7:00pm
Synopsis of Special Events & Programmes 2013
Sunday, February 3rd Pot-luck Luncheon and Annual Parish Meeting
(following 10:30am service)
Tuesday, February 12th 4:30-6:00pm Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper – Parish Hall. Lenten Study Programme: - Tuesdays, 7:00pm
February 19th February 26th March 6th March 19th
Friday, April 26th Choral Evensong with KES Cadet Corps
(Time: TBA) Saturday, April 27th 7:00-9:00pm - Parish Hall
Newfoundland & Country Evening of Musical Entertainment Saturday, May 11th 4:30-6:00pm - Parish Hall
Annual Lobster Supper! Take-Out or Eat-In! Christ Church Choral Evensongs, 2013: 4:00pm
Sunday, April 28th Sunday, May 19th
Atlantic Ministry of the Deaf (AMD) Services 2012-2013
2:00pm
Sunday, September 23rd Sunday, October 28th
Sunday, November 25th Sunday, December 23rd
Sunday, January 27th Sunday, February 24th Sunday, March 24th Sunday, April 28th Sunday, May 26th Sunday, June 23rd
Parish Council Meetings Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Tuesday, September 11th Tuesday, October 9th
Tuesday, November 13th Tuesday, December 11th
Tuesday, January 8th
(Sunday, February 3rd: Annual Parish Meeting) Tuesday, March 12th
Tuesday, April 9th Tuesday, May 14th Tuesday, June 11th
World Religions/Inquirer’s Class 2012 Mondays, 4.45-5:15pm in Room 204, KES
Prospective Dates: October 15th, 22nd & 29th; November 5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th.
Confirmation Classes - 2013 Mondays, 4:45-5:15pm in Room 204, KES
Prospective Dates: January 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th; February 11th, 18th, & 25th; March 5th.
Seniors’ Drop-in Programme Thursdays, 1:30-3:00pm in the Parish Hall commencing
on Thursday, September 20th. Prospective dates for 2012: September 20th & 27th; October 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th; November 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th; December 6th & 13th. Prospective Dates for 2013: April 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th; May 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th; June 6th & 13th.
Christ Church Men’s Club Breakfast - following the 8:00am service, usually (but not always!) on the First Sunday of the Month. Prospective Dates for 2012: September 9th, October 14th, November 4th, December 2nd. Prospective Dates for 2013: January 6th, February 10th, March 3rd, April 7th, May 5th.
“How readest thou?”
It is a pressing contemporary question. How do we read? There has been a virtual explosion of books about the marvel and the miracle of reading and about what reading means in the digital age. There is, in fact, a considerable climate of anxiety about books and reading. Does it mean the end of books? Does it mean the end of reading, itself? In the technological changes of the digital world, do the changes to reading mean changes to our thinking?
It might seem that along with the question, “how do we read?” there is the equally important question, “what do we read?” To be sure. Yet, this may be one of those rare moments where the how sheds light on the what, the means upon the purpose. At the very least, it opens to view the necessary interrelation between how we read and what we read.
And what about worship and prayer? What about the reading of The Book of Common Prayer? How readest thou?
It is, in so many ways, our question and yet, it is not a new question. Jesus asks the question. “How readest thou?” Put to the test by a clever lawyer about how to obtain eternal life, Jesus responds in good Socratic fashion by asking him about what is written in the Law of Moses. “How readest thou?” The lawyer answers with what Anglicans used to know, and, perhaps, still do, as The Summary of the Law. It is precisely a way of reading the entire Scriptures but it takes on a new significance in Christ as the gospel story illustrates.
The love of God and the love of neighbour are wonderfully linked together in the refinement that belongs to late Judaism
and carries over into the kerygma of Christianity. That becomes the literary context, we might say, of the understanding of the mission of Jesus. In the Christian understanding of things he is, inescapably, the union of the love of God and Man, a union which we cannot achieve on the strength of our own powers from the Jewish, Christian, or Islamic perspectives. The Summary of the Law catapults us into the presence of God through the intense awareness of the limitations of the finite, both of our minds and of our being.
The question belongs to the telling of a powerful parable, the familiar and wonderful parable of the Good Samaritan. The lawyer responds to the question about how he reads with the Summary of the Law. Jesus acknowledges that he has “answered right[ly]; this do, and thou shalt live”. There can be no greater affirmation of the power and the truth of the Law. It is eternal life, if we can go and live it. But the story does not end there; to the contrary, it has only just begun. We cannot just go and do, it seems; we cannot simply do and live forever.
As Luke tells us, the Lawyer “willing to justify himself” asks the further question, the big question. “And who is my neighbour?” It is in response to that question that Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. At least, that is what we have come to call it. Nowhere do we read the actual phrase ‘the Good Samaritan’; there is simply “a certain Samaritan”. And yet that is the true reading – meaning interpretation – of the parable. Christ is the Good Samaritan and we can only have eternal life in him. We can only “go and do likewise” as the Samaritan has done by the grace and power of Christ in us.
It is, perhaps, not at all surprising that Jesus should ask the question, “How readest thou?” In a way, the question is about
our relation to words, to be sure, but even more to the Word behind all words, the Word behind all reality, the Word of God made flesh in Jesus Christ. How readest thou? is really a question about our life in Christ, our life in the understanding of God.
Reading. What kind of reading? Nicholas Carr, in his book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, and a host of other writers lament the loss of attention, what Carr calls, wonderfully, I think, deep reading. On the other hand, as others point out, is all our reading deeply attentive reading? Is that really possible? Carr quotes N. Katherine Hayles about the value, too, of hyper attention reading. The point, as Alan Jacobs suggests, is that we need both. In a way, all of the contemporary concerns about reading reveal the necessity of negotiating between the digital and the print culture.
This brings me to The Book of Common Prayer. What kind of reading does it require? Well, remarkably complex, sophisticated and differentiated forms of reading, I am afraid, though ones which are surprisingly catholic; that is to say, for all in one way or another. It is Common Prayer. To recover its sensibility about reading may help to counter a number of our contemporary confusions and anxieties.
The liturgy of the Prayer Book is codex heavy, we might say, and, certainly, dense with words, a veritable forest of words. Codex is the term for what we ordinarily know as a book, pages of paper between two covers. Codex actually means a block of wood. The codex replaced the scroll, particularly for the newly emerging Christian communities of late antiquity. The Prayer Book, too, is part of the later technological innovation of the
world of the printing press and belongs to the explosion of books that marks early modernity. In contrast to what we once called the new and alternative liturgies, there are not many white spaces on the pages of the classical Book(s) of Common Prayer. An awful lot is packed into any given page of The Book of Common Prayer. But do we read it like we read a P.D. James’ novel, carried along by the narrative flow? Well, no. Every service from the Prayer Book requires a kind of versatility, a capacity to move back and forth between different parts of the service as well as a sense of connection to other books, principally the Scriptures, of course, but Hymn Books as well. And then there is the ubiquitous bulletin full of all manner of largely distracting and often unnecessary material. Do we really need to know the page numbers of anything more than, say, the Collect, Epistle and Gospel and where to find the Psalm?
And yet, we have to provide some sort of so-called user-friendly guides to what is actually a pretty demanding enterprise, the activity of concentrated worship that involves the whole person within the context of a spiritual community that embraces the ages.
My point is that there is a whole lot of reading material before us in any given service of worship. The so-called newer liturgies, by the way, don’t avoid this problem, either. If anything, they add to it. Common Prayer becomes complicated prayer if not confused prayer.
The Book of Common Prayer is not a novel; it is more like poetry, but more importantly it is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is a means to our praying the Scriptures, a way of reading deeply and thoughtfully, a way of reading, too, with
hyper attention to where you are in the service and where it is going. You snooze, you lose, after all. Learning how to use the Prayer Book in worship is an important art. It requires instruction and thoughtful attention and there is always more to learn. In a way, it captures another important feature of reading that is often overlooked, namely, re-reading, in which there is the discovery of new understandings in and through ever so familiar words that have been constantly repeated. It is never simply about information; it is always about a pattern of understanding, something into which we are continually growing more and more.
That pattern of understanding is doctrinal. It has to do with the kind of theological synthesis and clarity of essential teaching that belongs to the Book(s) of Common Prayer in our classical Anglican tradition. Through that pattern of essential teaching we are connected to the life of the wider Church, the catholic communion of the Saints, as it were. Central to the pattern is the creedal reading of the Scriptures. That is itself a way of reading, wonderfully embodied in the classical Eucharistic lectionary of the Prayer Book.
It requires a certain kind of attentiveness. The pattern of understanding connects to a way of living; that much is clear from the parable of the Good Samaritan. But in our activity fixated age, in the culture of scattered souls, in “An Age of Distraction”, as Alan Jacobs has called it, we forget that the contemplative element of the Prayer Book liturgy is always primary. That is assumed in the richness of the liturgical services from the Prayer Book which can never be reduced to sound-bite messages. This is the disease of modern worship; at once, experiential in an emotive and unreflective way and
narcissistic in the sense that it caters to our perceived wants and desires. Rather than the confession of “the devices and desires of our own hearts”, there is the attempt to provide for them. The experiential optic of the sovereign individual cannot be “followed too much.” It is our idol.
In our Anglican world, as in other churches, too, there is at least a glimmer of an awareness of this problem, the awareness that not every liturgy can be a rave, a happening, an orgiastic hyper-intense experience. There is, in other words, the possibility of a kind of openness to the meditative and yet super-intense and experiential reality of The Book of Common Prayer. There is even, dare I say, a way of using so-called modern liturgies in the spirit of the Prayer Book. There is the necessity of knowing and appreciating the spiritual qualities of The Book of Common Prayer. There has to be a sitting and a listening that is presupposed in our standing and singing, our kneeling and praying, as well as in our lives of service and sacrifice that flow out of and return to the worship of the living God.
“How readest thou?” Fr. David Curry
Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thou hast but two rare cabinets full of treasure, The Trinitie, and Incarnation: Thou hast unlockt them both, And made them jewels to betroth The work of thy creation Unto thyself in everlasting pleasure.
George Herbert (1593-1633) ‘Ungratefulnesse’, The Temple
