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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.

You can watch past live-streamed services on our YouTube channel — click to watch the ones you missed or rewatch the ones you enjoyed!

On Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 PM, the British Columbia Regiment Irish Pipes & Drums will be joined by the 15th Field Artillery Band for the 3rd Annual Piping for the Padre. The concert is a fundraiser for the Padre’s Fund, which provides support for the women and men of the reserves, particularly the BC Regiment. The fund provides resources for resilience training, physical training, and spiritual and mental support, as well as financial support for the troops.

Effective March 1, 2025, the deadline for submissions to the Chronicle will be noon on TUESDAYS.

The Cathedral will be closed on March 11 (Tuesday) and 12 (Wednesday) to allow for mandatory staff training. Regular hours will resume on Thursday, March 13.

Thank you for your understanding!

Ever wonder why we do what we do at our communion services on Sunday? Join Rev. Areeta and Claude St-Denis to learn about the Eucharist. We'll walk through the service step by step and explore our worship tradition. Following the teaching Eucharist, we'll do a tour of the Nave (the church) to learn what our building teaches us about our faith. All are welcome to join us. 

Please email Claude (claude@thecathedral.ca) if you have any questions. 

Join Rev. Areeta and parishioner, Liz McCausland, to celebrate and learn more about women and feminism in the Christian tradition in this multi-part series to celebrate women’s history month. All are welcome! 

We are excited to announce that the Cathedral is offering outstanding new music worship services beginning on the First Sunday of Lent, March 9, 2025. The Series is called "Sundays at 4" and will feature a different 45-minute music-centered worship each Sunday. The first offering, on Lent 1, will play to the strengths of our music program and choir with a Choral Evensong.

Subsequent Sundays will rotate through a variety of styles like: Holden Evening Payer, Taize, Organ Vespers, and the Dean's favourite, Broadway Vespers, to name a few. Please mark your calendar and plan to join us for some powerful worship!

It has been said that “God behaves in the psalms in ways that God is not allowed to behave in theology” (Sebastian Moore, OSB). This Lent, encounter God in the Book of the Psalms. Claude St-Denis will be leading an exploration of the Psalms: an exploration of the Psalms as scripture and an exploration of the Psalms as prayer. 

Join us online on Tuesday evenings in Lent (from March 11- April 8, 2025), from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. (zoom room opens at 7:15 p.m.). 

If you have any questions, please reach out directly to Claude St-Denis via email at claude@thecathedral.ca.

Healing Touch, in person, is available for members of  Christ Church Cathedral. The next in-person Healing Touch offering will be Sunday, 16 March 2025.

Four sessions are offered in total: at 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. before the service; AND at 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. after the service.

To register for a session please email the office at healingtouch@thecathedral.ca to request a time. State “Healing Touch In Person” in the subject line. All requests from parishioners will be considered, and confirmation emails sent by March 14th.

If you would like more information about Healing Touch, there are brochures on the rack outside the office.

The Diocese of New Westminster is pleased to launch a diocesan-wide youth confirmation class. Led by three clergy in the diocese, including Rev. Jessica, who worships at the Cathedral, this program is open to youth, between 14 and 18 years old. 

Current locations are: 

Diocesan Office - 1410 Nanton Avenue, Vancouver

St. Philip - 3737 W 27th Ave W, Vancouver

St. Anselm - 5210 University Blvd, Vancouver

The confirmation service will be held on June 14 at Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street). 

To register, please email the Rev. Jessica Schaap (jschaap@vancouver.anglican.ca). 

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.

We have emailed your 2024 donation receipt to everyone with a valid email address in our donation system. Thank you so much for helping us save on the mailing costs.

You have received an email titled “Your 2024 Tax Receipt from the Cathedral”. There is a link in blue called “View your giving statement”. Please click on this link and your tax receipt will download to your computer or device.

Anyone without a printer can reply to the “Your 2024 Tax Receipt from the Cathedral” email to let us know, and Vanessa will print yours for you.

If you did NOT receive a donation receipt by email, please note that we mailed out your tax receipt on Monday, February 24, 2025.

Thank you!

There is still time to bring your old palm crosses! Please bring them to the Transfiguration Sunday service on March 2.

The imposition of ashes will take place on Ash Wednesday (March 5) at 8:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.

Thank you for being part of this meaningful tradition!

The other day I dreamt I was jive dancing with Archbishop John Stephens and singing songs in Swahili in the cathedral chancel, surrounded by happy parishioners dining on pizza and ice cream.

But no, it wasn’t a surreal combination of childhood birthday memories and past travels to Zanzibar concocted by my sleep-deprived brain — but rather the cathedral’s 135th anniversary party.

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Do you have a weekday morning (10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) or afternoon (1:00 to 4:00 p.m.) with free time to come to the Cathedral and volunteer at the office reception desk? Duties vary and always include answering the telephone and welcoming guests who pop in.

Computer skills and a pleasant voice to connect with those who call are important assets. You will take direction from our office staff who train the volunteers and all the information you need is close at hand.

There is a “Volunteer Application Form” on the Cathedral’s website to complete. Our Volunteer Coordinator will contact you to complete the process.

It is one of the highlights of the week, knowing you are serving God using a gift of hospitality to live out our “open doors, open hearts, open minds.”

Volunteering is a wonderful way of deepening your connection with members of our Cathedral Community. Please consider the following opportunities to share your gift of time:

NARTHEX GREETERS - become a part of the weekday team that welcomes visitors from around the world and those who are seeking a prayerful place to connect with the divine.

ALTAR GUILD - members of this ministry have the sacred task of preparing the Cathedral for worship. Please reach out to Sarah Nation if you are curious to find out more.

VANCOUVER, BC, January 24, 2025. The Board of Governors of the Vancouver School of Theology is delighted to announce that Philip Murray has been selected as a 2025 recipient of VST’s Honorary Doctor of Divinity.

This Honorary Doctor of Divinity (HDD) is awarded to individuals who exemplify the values of VST, an internationally recognized theological school known for its innovation and global leadership. VST’s HDD recipients have made significant contributions through the integration of theology and practice of ministry in one or more of the following: theological scholarship, ecumenical dialogue, the life and ministry of the Christian community, and interdisciplinary scholarship involving theology with other fields.

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Join Dean Christopher Pappas, the Cathedral’s Representative to Sorrento Centre Jane Dittrich, the Rev. Clare Morgan, and programming course leader the Rev. Canon Dr. Harold Munn for Christ Church Cathedral’s 2025 week at Sorrento Centre, July 20-26th!

Mark your calendars, contact Sorrento Centre (https://sorrentocentre.ca/) for booking information, and stay tuned in the coming weeks for full details!  

-Jane Dittrich

Climate Action Toward Stewarding, or CATS recognizes our baptismal vow to “strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation and respect, sustain, and renew the life of the earth.” Lent is a good time to review our baptismal vows and take time for spiritual renewal. Consuming less seems an apt discipline for the Lenten season. This theme provides an opportunity for listening, learning, sharing and action as we change our habits for the better.

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Eat, Pray, Love: an all-ages Lenten gathering | Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 4:00 to 6:00 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.
(to resume on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025)

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

ONLINE

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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.