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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 2024 is 18932447. Rate details are available here.

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8 October 2024

Dear Friends in Christ,

As we gather this Thanksgiving, it’s easy to focus on the usual things—good food, family, friends. And those are wonderful blessings, especially stuffing and gravy! But as followers of Jesus, Thanksgiving calls us to go deeper, beyond the comforts of that day, and reflect on how we are living out our calling to be stewards of the gifts God has entrusted to us. To be co-creators of the peaceable realm.

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The Cathedral will be closed on Monday, October 13, in observance of Thanksgiving. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, October 14.

Wishing you a happy and safe holiday!

Dean Chris will be at Sorrento Centre this weekend to take part in the Associates Thanksgiving Work Weekend with Sorrento Rep Jane Dietrich, Deacon Emeritus Alisdair Smith, and a number of other Cathedral parishioners.

A multimedia art project fulfilling the requirements of Indigenous Summer School at VST, Exploring Indigenous Perspectives in Church Leadership: A Maori Lens with Katene Eruera.

What is PROJECT HOPE? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has affected millions of people globally. ALS is a progressive, degenerative disease that destroys the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

Here in B.C. PROJECT HOPE through the UBC Faculty of Medicine, strives to create an optimal environment integrating cutting-edge research and clinical care.

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Join us for a gentle hike in Lynn Canyon, on Saturday Oct 19th from 9.30-11.30am.

We'll meet in the parking lot near the Suspension Bridge and washrooms (3690 Park Rd, North Vancouver, BC V7J 3G3). We will walk, enjoy each other's company and give thanks to God for the beauty of creation. All ages welcome. Friendly dogs are welcome too. We will hike rain or sun (not snow), so dress for the weather. Bring water bottles, snacks, and comfortable shoes. No registration required - just show up!

For more information, contact Rev. Areeta.

Media coverage shows us the devastation that climate change is bringing around the world - affecting people in our congregation, their home countries and their loved ones. Want to find out what their countries are doing to battle climate change? What can we learn from them to help us adapt additional, and new, actions and measures to help mitigate climate change?

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Come show off your Hallowe'en costume! 

Come to the 10.30am worship service, dressed up in your Hallowe'en costume and give us a preview! Families with children are invited to stay for lunch afterwards in the Park Room. Children will have time to play together and watch a short Hallowe'en themed (but not scary) video, while grownups connect with one another. 

No need to RSVP - just show up! 

If you have any questions, please contact the Rev. Areeta Bridgemohan. 

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where players create characters and go on adventures as a team. It’s famous for its rich and complex gameplay and world-building, as well as the many MANY books of lore, beasts, and scenarios groups may use to craft their odysseys.

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Dear Children and Grownups, 

We are glad you are here! We treasure your belonging to our community and are delighted to be companions in your journey with Jesus.

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The Upper Zoom Bible Study of Sunday Readings has resumed. Click on the Read More button for information.

Rev. Dr. Harold Munn, former Dean of Edmonton, and former Anglican mentor at the Vancouver School of Theology, will be in Vancouver next year. Copies of the resource book will be available: “Faith in Doubt: how my dog made me an atheist and atheism made me a priest”.

The O’Driscoll family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to the community of Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver, for all of the various support received since the passing of Herbert O’Driscoll on July 25th. 

Know that all of the prayers, messages, stories/memories shared of him and words of support and condolence have provided immense comfort to all of the family. Thank you to all who travelled to the Cathedral in Victoria last Saturday Oct 5th to attend the Celebration of Life service, and to all who participated by watching the livestream. 

For those who missed the liturgy, it can be viewed by clicking on this link: https://www.christchurchcathedral.bc.ca/livestreams/614

-Jane Dittrich 

Like many of us, last weekend I had the honour and pleasure to meet with and listen to the Archbishop of York.

On the last leg of a cross-Canada tour, Stephen Cottrell offered a public lecture at Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday morning.

I vaguely remembered reading a notice about a 9:30 am coffee and muffin meeting for attendees preceding the lecture, but I thought I would just head straight for the main event. As it turned out, the archbishop, accompanied by his lovely wife Rebecca Cottrell and his chief of staff Mark Steadman, also attended the coffee klatch. There in the cathedral where my great grandparents Ruth and Arthur Jones, who met on the boat from Liverpool, were married in 1906,  I learned that Rebecca was a ceramics artist and that she knew of my cousin Jonathan Chiswell Jones – a potter in Sussex - from that same Liverpool clan. It was all very familial.

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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.

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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The Cathedral's Healing Prayer ministry is centered on healing through prayer. This ministry acknowledges that healing is God's work, and that those who offer this ministry are instruments of the divine presence and care for people.

Prayers for healing are offered with a posture of trust, openness, and faith that God will continue the healing ministry of Christ through the Church. Our ministry with and amongst those who are sick is about God's unfolding healing process, rather than a cure. 

Those seeking prayer may email the Cathedral PrayerLink at prayerlink@thecathedral.ca to have their name added to the list.