There is a great to deal at the Cathedral for us to remember with gratitude. First, and most important, this is the time to think about all the benefits we have received from the cathedral and the ways in which have participated and would like to participate this coming year....
The theme of Connecting comes up again this week. There will be multiple opportunities for connecting during November, the period of the annual stewardship campaign. Cathedral parishioners are a very generous community, giving their money, energy, time and talents to many causes. A stewardship campaign is an opportunity to say...
There are three very important community events to highlight this week: A gathering on October 31 of cathedral members interested in discovering volunteer ministries. A special concert on November 6 will raise money for the music programme. A celebratory supper on November 28 with a silent auction which will raise...
We are saddened to learn that Roger Balk died last Saturday night. Educated at Harvard and at St Andrew’s University in Scotland, Roger came to Montreal from the United States in 1961, after serving as a priest in Ohio and New York City. He served as honorary assistant at the...
Calm has gradually been restored to the cathedral and diocesan offices and thanksgiving is now the predominant emotion. The video of Bishop Mary’s installation and consecration has been watched with pleasure by many people. Kay Dila, a former parishioner who now lives in Victoria, wrote “I received the Consecration video...
Journées de la culture was a glorious extended celebration between Friday and Tuesday, involving many hours of work by many people. Thank you to all who volunteered their skills and their time. We had an official visitor from the organisers of the Journées de la culture on Saturday. She stayed...
The Cathedral and Diocesan offices need you to pray for the still small voice of calm to be heard this coming week. There are 4 wonderful and joyful days coming up, starting on Friday with the first of 3 days celebrating Les journées de la culture and finishing with the...
I think you will feel breathless after reading about all the whirlwind of events at the cathedral during the next three weeks – so hold on to your hats and grab your agendas The winds start blowing this Sunday with three events scheduled after the end of the 10am Eucharist,...
“No man is an island entire of itself” wrote John Donne in the seventeenth century, blithely unaware of political correctness. “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This awareness of our connectedness to the world around the Cathedral is notable in many events taking...
If you are interested in attending the service of Consecration and Installation of Bishop-Elect Mary Irwin-Gibson as the 12th Bishop of Montreal on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, on the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, at 7:00 pm you must act now! Reserve your ticket by emailing the bishop’s...
Four events will close off August and then it’s on to a busy September. Saturday August 22 at 4:30 L’Oasis Musicale presents On danse/Let’s Dance, featuring the famous Brahms Hungarian dances; ballets of Debussy and Gavrilin; the well-known Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the less-known but very funny Jolly Caballero,...
Celebration! This word is the thread which runs through all the newsletter items this week, whether we are reading about endings, beginnings, thanksgiving or outreach – fit topics for an August newsletter. This Sunday, during the 4 pm Evensong service, we will be celebrating Bishop Barry’s 11 years of ministry...