Category: Events

Monday, October 21st
4:45-5:15pm World Religions/Inquirers’ Class – KES
6:30-8:00pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Tuesday, October 22nd
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Brownies – Parish Hall

Friday, October 18th
11:00am Holy Communion – Dykeland Lodge
6:00-9:00pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, October 20th, Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity / Eve of St. Simon & St. Jude
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
7:00 Holy Communion – KES Chapel

O God, who in a wonderful sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion: Grant us so to reverence the holy mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever know within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption, who livest and reignest with the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

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Tuesday, October 15th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Girl Guides – Parish Hall
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room, Parish Hall
New Dark Age: Technology & the End of the Future (2018), by James Bridle, and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

Thursday, October 17th,, Eve of St. Luke
3:15pm Service at Windsor Elms
7:00pm Holy Communion

Friday, October 18th
6:00-9:00pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Saturday, October 19th
9:00-11:00am Bell Tower Clean-up

Sunday, October 20th, Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,/
and to sing praises unto thy Name, O thou Most High” (Psalm 92.1)
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a special and wonderful celebration. It speaks to a deep-seated spiritual sensibility in our souls even in the confusions, uncertainties, and denials of all things religious and spiritual in our contemporary culture. Thanksgiving is fundamentally and essentially spiritual.

Thanksgiving embraces at once Harvest Thanksgiving and National Thanksgiving, our thanks for the bounty of the harvest (whether or not there has been one!) and for the rational and spiritual freedoms that we enjoy (however much we ignore them and however much they are in question and disarray) in our nation and country. Those ‘thanksgivings’ are raised into the great thanksgiving, the Eucharist of the Son to the Father, re-enacted, recalled, and re-presented in “our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving” in the service of the Holy Eucharist. We are fed with the bread of life, which is Jesus himself who has come down from heaven to give life to the world. That life is about our participation in the Son’s Thanksgiving to the Father, the Great Thanksgiving.

The giving of thanks to God, the giving of thanks for what we have, and the giving of thanks with one another and sharing with one another speaks to the highest freedom and dignity of our humanity. We give articulate praise to God for the harvest, for the nation, for our communities, and for one another, but, above all, for God himself. “Blessed be God that he is God only and divinely like himself” as John Donne prays. We are in George Herbert’s rich phrase, “the secretaries of thy praise”. Thanksgiving is a metanoia, our thinking after the things of God in creation, a return to the principle of being and knowing.

Fr. David Curry

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Monday, October 7th
6:30-7:30pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Tuesday, October 8th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Brownies – Parish Hall
7:00pm Parish Council Meeting

Friday, October 11th
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Saturday, October 12th
9:00-11:00am Men’s Club Decorating Church

Sunday, October 13th, Harvest Thanksgiving / Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion

Upcoming Event:

Tuesday, October 15th
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room, Parish Hall
New Dark Age: Technology & the End of the Future (2018), by James Bridle, and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

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Monday, September 30th
6:30-8:00pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Tuesday, October 1st
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Brownies – Parish Hall

Thursday, October 3rd
3:15pm Service – Windsor Elms

Friday, October 4th
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, October 6th, Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion (followed by Men’s Club Breakfast)
10:30am Holy Communion

Upcoming Event:

Tuesday, October 15th
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room, Parish Hall
New Dark Age: Technology & the End of the Future (2018), by James Bridle, and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

Michaelmas takes its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, a feast which marks the beginning of the academic year for the medieval universities, such as Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Pavia, and others, and so for institutions like King’s College and King’s-Edgehill School. In School and in Church we learn to think, to sing and to dance with the Angels, those pure intellectual beings who move our imaginations and strengthen our understanding and thus redeem the discursive thinking (ratio) which consumes and destroys us and our world.

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Tuesday, September 24th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Brownies – Parish Hall

Thursday, September 26th
6:30-8:00pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Friday, September 27th
11:00am Holy Communion – Dykeland Lodge
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, September 29th, St. Michael & All Angels / Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion

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Tuesday, September 17th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-8:00pm Brownies – Parish Hall
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room: The Kingdom of the Blind (2018), by Louise Penny, and Invisible Cities (1972, Eng. Trans. 1974), by Italo Calvino

Thursday, September 19th, Eve of Ember Friday
3:15pm Service – Windsor Elms
6:30-8:00pm Sparks – Parish Hall
7:00pm Holy Communion

Friday, September 20th, Ember Friday
11:00am Holy Communion – Dykeland Lodge
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, September 22nd, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
7:00pm Holy Communion – KES

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Tuesday, September 10th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies – Parish Hall
7:00pm Parish Council Meeting

Thursday, September 12th
6:30-7:30pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Friday, September 13th
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, September 15th, Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion

Upcoming Event:

Tuesday, September 17th
7:00pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room:
The Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penny, and Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino

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Thursday, June 27th
6:30-7:30pm Sparks – Parish Hall

Friday, June 28th
6:00-7:30pm Pathfinders & Rangers – Parish Hall

Sunday, June 30th, Second Sunday after Trinity/Octave of SS. Peter & Paul
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion

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