Month: March 2009

Events, Month at a Glance

Week at a Glance, 9-15 March 2009

Mon., 9 Mar.
4:45-5:15 pm Confirmation Class., King’s-Edgehill School, Rm. 204

Tues., 10 Mar.
6:00 pm Prayers & Praises, Haliburton Place
7:00 pm Holy Communion (Lenten Devotion), followed by Parish Council Meeting at 7:30 pm

Thurs., 12 Mar.
1:30-3:00 pm Seniors’ Drop-In

Sun., 15 Mar., Lent III
8:00 am Holy Communion
10:30 am Holy Communion
4:30 pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church

All services of worship are according to the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer.

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Prayers and liturgy

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, by Carlo CriveliThe collect for today, the Feast Day of Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274), Priest, Friar, Poet, Doctor of the Church (source):

Everlasting God,
who didst enrich thy Church with the learning and holiness
of thy servant Thomas Aquinas:
grant to all who seek thee
a humble mind and a pure heart
that they may know thy Son Jesus Christ
to be the way, the truth and the life;
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

For the Epistle: Wisdom 7:7-14
The Gospel: St Matthew 13:47-52

Artwork: Carlo Crivelli, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Demidoff Altarpiece, 1476. Egg tempera on poplar or lime, National Gallery, London.

c/p: Nova Scotia Scott

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Sermons

Sermon for First Sunday in Lent

The Rev’d David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, preached this sermon at Holy Communion for the First Sunday in Lent, based on Hebrews 5:8.

“Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.”

Learning through suffering was an ancient maxim of the Greeks most wonderfully illustrated in the story of Odysseus. Many in modern times have been graduates, too, of that proverbial school of hard knocks. Necessity can be one heck of a teacher.

But what is it that is learned through ancient suffering and the contemporary school of hard knocks? What are the lessons? (more…)

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