Reverend Clarence Li is presiding and preaching.

We observe the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem that was marked by the crowds, who were in Jerusalem for Passover, waving palm branches and proclaiming him as the messianic king.  The irony of his acceptance as the new Davidic King by the crowds who would only five days later dry for his execution should be a sobering reminder of the human tendency to want God on our own terms.  This Sunday is also known as Passion Sunday to commemorate the beginning of the Holy Week and Jesus’ final agonizing journey to the cross.  The liturgy will include a re-enaction of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and a congregational reading of the Passion according to Matthew. 

To stream the Sunday service click here

the PASSCODE is 123. 

Meeting ID: 849 3747 0476

Come early on Palm Sunday (March 29) and help fold Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday Procession. Tables will be set up in the Hall at 9:15 am. Check the video instructions below on how to fold your own palm cross(es).

Work Party this Saturday for Labyrinth Restoration: Come and be part of the work crew to lay new sod for the labyrinth this Saturday morning.  9 am start time.  More hands make light work.

Holy Week Services are listed HERE.  Come and walk with Christ in a suffering world.  

Light-scented fresh Cut Flowers needed for Easter Flower Cross: From the Altar Guild: We do not have the daffodils coming that we had in past years and really would like some fresh cut flowers. Please contact Laura Wallace know if you are able to donate and bring some on Easter Sunday.

Maundy Thursday 12-hour Watch/Vigil: A very moving observance during Holy Week is to spend an hour to watch/pray with Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane between Maundy Thursday evening and Good Friday. A sign up form is available at the greeting table for those who wish to participate.

Parish Council is inviting members to a new Fundraising Task Group. We welcome people with ideas & experience in fundraising events. Contact Peter Wolfe, Treasurer if you can help.

The Centre for Spiritual Renewal is pleased to announce its Spring/Sumer offerings. Check the Centre's website or the inter-parish Centre page to find out the courses and retreats this spring/summer.

Grounds Maintenance Day has been RESCHEDULED TO Saturday, April 18 from at 9 am to 2 pm. A hot dog lunch will be served at 12pm. Please bring a rake and/or shovel. All are welcome so bring your family and friends. We need all hands on deck to repair our lawns! For more information, please contact Doug Tindall.

Lenten “Soul Boats” Project: Inspired by the Soul Boats installation at Birmingham Cathedral in 2015-2016, the Liturgical Arts Team is inviting you to help create an aerial sculpture made up of soul boats to be unveiled on Easter Sunday. Please return your completed Soul Boat TODAY.

Watch the Installation of the Most Reverend Archbishop Sarah Mullally on the Feast of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary this past week on March 25.

Download and read Archbishop John Stephen's letter to welcome and congratulate Archbishop Sarah on her appointment and installation.

This service remembers the often-neglected memory of Jesus being anointed by a woman in Bethany right before his journey towards the Cross.   This contemplative liturgy is written by the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault to recover the role of the beloved Mary Magdalene during Holy Week.  Chants, silence & invitations to anoint each other. 

Join the earliest pilgrims to Jerusalem following the footsteps of Jesus to the Cross where he sacrificed himself for the love of Creation.  Traditional versions of the Stations of the Cross often romanticize Jesus’ suffering, encourage us to identify with Jesus as the victim, or serves as a victim in our stead. This is not only theologically unsupportable in a county as rich and powerful as Canada, but it is dangerous. By entering into the Stations as victims, we blind ourselves to our complicity in violence, and others suffer from our blindness as a result.  Using a revised version of the Stations developed by Jeff Krantz, we are invited to see ourselves as we are truly depicted in the Passion by viewing it from the perspective of God’s ultimate victory over our sin, from the perspective of the resurrection.

A service of evening prayers forming part of the Divine Office, traditionally said before retiring for the night. Compline typically lasts about 15 minutes.

Maundy Thursday, from the Latin maundatum meaning commandment, takes us through three stages in the last moments of Jesus’ life. First he welcomes his friends to celebrate the Holy Meal of Passover with him by washing our feet saying, “A New Commandment I give to you”. He then celebrates the first Eucharist showing us how to remain part of his body though he is leaving. The liturgy ends with a form of the Tenebrae (Latin for darkness) Service lamenting the arrival of the hour of darkness when the Son of God would soon be betrayed and abandoned.  During the reading of Psalm 22, we remember the stripping of Christ's body and the desolation which becomes part of the passion narrative.  

Immediately following this service, we begin the "Watch", recalling that first watch of the disciples with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.    You are invited to sign-up for an one-hour slot to watch with Christ between 8 pm - 8 am.  Here at the Garden, Jesus models to us his self-emptying by surrendering himself to be in union with the will and the deep love of his Abba.  

To stream the service click here

the PASSCODE is 123. 

Meeting ID: 849 3747 0476

The Good Friday Liturgy invokes all of our senses to meet our Beloved Christ on the Cross. The shape of the service is patterned after the ancient observance on Good Friday and consists of three parts:

1. Scripture Readings (our listening and our minds)
2. Praying around the Cross (our touch and our hearts)
3. Holy Communion (our taste and our hunger)

You will be invited to pray around the Icon Cross of the Taizé Community. The ecumenical community of Taizé in France was founded with the hope to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples. Every Friday night at Taizé, the Icon Cross is placed flat on the floor of the Church of Reconciliation. All present are invited to come forward to the cross. As a gesture of their solidarity with the poor and oppressed peoples of the world, pilgrims place their foreheads on the Cross and remain there for a few moments. This symbolic gesture brings home very clearly that Christ still suffers in the downtrodden and victims of injustice in the world today

For those who had not taken communion on Good Friday before, the ancient observance invites us to enter into sacramental union with Jesus, the Victim of the Cross, despite the absence of the physical presence of Christ remembered on Good Friday.  The Holy Communion used in this service is the reserved sacrament consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Institution of the Lord’s Supper.  

The Rev. Clarence will be presiding and the Rev. Linda Varin will be preaching.