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If you attend in person on Sundays, a special parking rate is available at the Park Place Parkade. The parking code for 2025 is 20254630. Rate details are available here.

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If you park at Park Place for Cathedral services, please note that we have been issued a new parking code for use in 2025.

Are you interested in supporting children and their families on their faith journeys? Do you know anyone who might be a good fit for leading Sunday School at the Cathedral? 

Then please download the job posting from the website and share it!

Each ministry group is requested to submit a short, 300 words or less, review of 2024 for our annual Vestry report.

Details of how to submit your report will be included in next week's Chronicle.

Thank you!

Join us for an all-ages Epiphany party! 

Fr. Rob James and Mtr. Amanda Ruston will be launching their recently published Illustrated Bible for Children. They'll be reading the Epiphany story and leading us in reflections, crafts and songs about this wonderful feast of the Church. 

Afterwards we'll have a simple supper with star-shaped treats. 

If you have any questions, please contact Rev. Areeta. Please RSVP to Rev. Areeta by Thurs Jan 9th. 

If you want to learn more about the Anglican Church, our history, our worship, and our community, join us for this 9 session series. This series will feature a variety of voices from our wider church community. We will meet in-person twice and online weekly for 8 weeks. 

Stay tuned for an in-person session which will contain an instructed Eucharist and Cathedral tour. 

Please join us if you are new to the Cathedral, preparing for baptism, confirmation or reception in the Anglican Church, or if you simply want to learn more about our tradition and faith!

What’s your money doing? Do you know that Canadian banks are funding Oil Sands expansion? Unwittingly we may be contributing to fossil fuel development. Come and learn about greener investments. A beginning discussion on wise use of our resources.

About our presenters:

Michelle Marcus

Michelle Marcus is a divest and reinvestment activist. As a UBC student, she successfully lobbied UBC to divest from fossil fuels in 2019. She is a co-founder of Change Course, a national organization mobilizing young people to take action to pressure the Big 5 Canadian banks to divest from fossil fuels and Indigenous rights violations.

Karl Perrin, Suzuki Elder

Karl Perrin has been a climate activist at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver since 1993. He started its Green Fund which upgrades its buildings to decrease its carbon footprint. He initiated a church carbon offset program for members’ flying activity. After fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion for 12 years, he is now encouraging divestment from fossil fuels, and the banks which support Tar Sands expansion.

Please join the Cathedral Cats in attending what promises to be an informative and thought-provoking forum. 

Are you looking for a way to deepen your spiritual life? Every weekday morning at 9:30am the Cathedral holds Morning Prayer.

We will follow a simple liturgy with a Psalm, a Reading, Prayer and Silence. This form of regular, daily prayer is used in the Anglican Communion and a number of other church denominations. All are welcome to start the day in prayer with us.

Morning Prayer takes place online via Zoom. To join in, please email Morning Prayer for Zoom coordinates.

HAVE YOU HEARD? 
God Talk For Secular Ears

An experienced church leader speaks about the challenges facing religion in secular society and proposes some fascinating and unexpected opportunities that science and secularism may offer religion. 

Admission is free. Come to talk, come to listen, come to question, come to share.

In-person Healing Touch is returning to the Cathedral. The next offering will be Sunday, January 19, 2025.

Two session times will be on offer:

• After the 8am service: 9:00am and 9:30am, and
• After the 10:30am service: 12:00pm and 12:30pm

To register for a session please email the office at reception@thecathedral.ca to request a time with “Healing Touch In-Person” in the subject line. 

First come, first booked. Confirmation emails will be sent by January 17th.

Saturday February 22 5.30 pm - 8.00 pm
Final Celebration - a party for all, in the church upstairs.

We are planning an evening that all can enjoy, with music, dancing, pizza and other treats.

This is free event but you MUST have a ticket as we have a maximum of 140 seats availble.

Tickets will be available at Coffee Hour on: January 26th, February 2nd and 9th.

Limited copies of the 2025 Multifaith Calendar, "Pathways to Peace", are available: $15 each or 2 for $25.

For more information, or to order your copy, contact Donna Wong-Juliani: donna@thecathedral.ca

During the Nine Lessons and Carols service on December 22nd, a very touching element of this beloved Advent liturgy was that four generations of the Kellett family each read a lesson. Margery Kellett, Margery’s daughter Rosalind Kellett, Rosalind Kellett’s daughter Naomi Adams and Naomi’s son Gus. 

We have celebrated the Nativity of our Lord with joy and thanksgiving, shaping our celebration by the story of the birth as recounted in the Gospel of St Luke.  A young woman has been delivered of her baby, the baby lies in a manger, angels announce the birth to shepherds guarding their sheep at night, and the shepherds come to the manger to adore the child. 

Over the centuries the story [...]

Poul Hansen - January 10, 2025 at 2pm

Winnie Nowell - January 14, 2025 at 2pm with Fauré Requiem

135 Years Celebration - Final Event | Saturday, February 22 | 5:30 p.m.

Annual Vestry Meeting | Sunday, February 23 | 12:15 p.m.

Cathedral Week at Sorrento Centre | July 20 — July 26, 2025

The Cathedral office is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Staff contact information is available here. 

REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES

Holy Communion | 8:00 a.m.

Choral Eucharist | 10:30 a.m.

Eucharist with St. Brigid’s | 1:30 p.m.

Compline | 8:00 p.m.
(from February until November)

WEEKDAY SERVICES

Holy Eucharist | Monday—Friday
12:15 p.m.

Holy Eucharist | Thursday
7:30 a.m. (with breakfast following)

Rite of Reconciliation (Confession) | 4th Wednesday
11:00 a.m.—Noon

Healing Prayers & Anointing | Wednesday
Following the 12:15 p.m. Eucharist

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Those seeking prayers for themselves or others may email the Cathedral PrayerLink at prayerlink@thecathedral.ca to have their name added to the list.