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Sermons

Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent

The Rev’d David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, preached this sermon at Morning Prayer for the Second Sunday in Lent, based on the first lesson: Genesis 18:1-15.

“Sarah laughed”

The laughter of Sarah echoes down the empty corridors of the centuries of human ignorance and presumption. She, of course, “laughed to herself.” But that, of course, cannot be hid from God. “Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid,” for what kind of God would that be if things could be hid from him? Not a God worth believing in, surely. (more…)

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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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Anglican issues, Statements and other writings

Statement on Anglican Communion

Theological Position of
the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia,
in the light of the current jurisdictional concerns and controversies
about the Anglican Communion

The Parish of Christ Church affirms its commitment to the wider Anglican Communion in accord with the words of the Solemn Declaration of 1893 that declares “this Church to be and desire that it shall continue, in full communion with the Church of England throughout the world.”

Passed unanimously by the Parish Council of the Corporation of the Parish of Christ Church on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008.

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Anglican issues, Statements and other writings, Theology

Statement on sexuality

Theological Position of
the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia,
in the light of the current controversies about sexuality

In the light of the present controversy within the Anglican Communion, particularly about the blessing of same-sex couples, The Parish of Christ Church states the following theological position:

that, The Parish of Christ Church upholds the classical understanding of Christian marriage as articulated in The Book of Common Prayer (Cdn., 1962); in particular, that marriage is the sanctified union of a man and a woman;

that, The Parish of Christ Church recognises that friendships are a blessing but finds no warrant in Scripture or Tradition for any equivalence between the blessing of friends and Christian marriage;

that, The Parish of Christ Church welcomes all people to the Church as the refuge of sinners regardless of any particular form of self-definition but without requiring the acceptance of any other category of definition about our humanity than what clearly belongs to the doctrines of creation, redemption or sanctification, namely, as male and female, as sinners seeking redeeming grace, and the sanctified states of life as single or married, lay or ordained.

Passed unanimously by the Parish Council of the Corporation of the Parish of Christ Church on Tuesday, October 14, 2003.

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