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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.

You can watch past live-streamed services on our YouTube channel. Click on the button below and watch the ones you missed or rewatch the ones you enjoyed!

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. 

Christ Church Cathedral commemorates the 100th Anniversary of
Vancouver’s Victory Square Cenotaph and the 135th Anniversary of
Vancouver’s oldest Cathedral

Why did they do it, those men who marched away a century ago, heading straight for Hell on the Western Front? Those men whose distant graves are still remembered at Vancouver’s main cenotaph, dedicated on November 11th, 1924.

Come - and listen — to three men — Private Norman Hughes, who fought at Vimy Ridge, and Lieutenant Harold Owen, both remembered in stained glass windows, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Hart-McHarg, memorialized on a plaque — as they step down from the walls of Christ Church Cathedral to tell their stories of life, war, and death.

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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.

The Peace and Justice Unit of the diocese is endorsing the intent of the Peace Train initiative whose goal is to re-establish conversation and action in Canada regarding our role in ‘Negotiating’ towards peace throughout the world. This will involve meetings in November in Ottawa with politicians and organizations working towards peaceful solutions in our world. The website on the attached poster has a description of this intent along with a petition to parliament which Canadians are invited to sign.

Folks who will be on the Peace Train leaving Vancouver, Friday November 15, 2024 will be in attendance at the gathering at Canadian Memorial Church Thursday eve Nov. 14 at 6:00 pm.

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Saint Catherine’s Anglican Church is looking for a new Musician and Choir Director to lead the music ministry of the Parish that is growing in age and cultural diversity. We are seeking an individual to sustain the traditional Anglican style of hymns and organ music, while expanding the repertoire on the piano with a variety of contemporary forms such as celtic, gospel and folk. Start date: December 2024.

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”.

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It is with great sadness that we announce that Joan Lehman passed away on Monday, October 14. Joan's celebration of life will be held at the Cathedral on Thursday, October 24, at 2:30 p.m.

Please keep her daughter, Sarah Lehman, in your prayers.

“We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land. but it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand” (BCP 258) 

From October 11-14 2024, Associates of Sorrento Centre (www.sorrentocentre.ca) gathered for the annual Thanksgiving Associates Weekend. Over the course of those days, Sorrento Centre grounds and maintenance staff, associates and members of the St. Mary’s Anglican-United parish in Sorrento BC worked together to get numerous projects completed on the Centre’s expansive property. The Centre’s Board of Directors, led by board president Jason Cruickshank, also met on the Saturday to discuss the work, business and mission of Sorrento Centre. Board members who were unable to attend in person participated via Zoom, as did Archbishop Lynne McNaughton. Christ Church Cathedral’s deacon emeritus, the Rev. Alisdair Smith, led the worship sessions during the long weekend, preached the Thanksgiving homily at St. Mary’s on Sunday morning, and offered numerous thought-provoking talks. 

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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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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

ONLINE

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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.